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At Stanford, Information Literacy is defined by the following competencies. We believe that by graduation a student will be able to:

Acknowledge and articulate knowledge gaps

  • Identify knowledge gaps in the course of regular practice
  • Frame answerable clinical questions
  • Communicate patient questions to colleagues, including fellow clinicians and allied health and information professionals

Navigate their information landscape in real-time

  • Access varied information resources, including people, articles, patient information, personal expertise, etc. to gather relevant information
  • Locate information specific to their patient-centered questions in a variety of multidisciplinary information resource
  • Efficiently and ethically procure information not in their current information landscape

Evaluate information and information resources

  • Determine the suitability of study design to the type of question asked
  • Understand sources of bias in clinical research
  • Independently assess the reliability of the outcome measures
  • Determine the importance of the outcomes by translating them into meaningful summary statistics

Apply information to improving the quality of health of individuals and populations

  • Balance patient factors, best evidence and personal experience/knowledge into clinical decision making
  • Express the relative risks and benefits of outcomes and treatments to patients and colleagues
  • Report on successful application of information to improve patient care
  • Provide patients appropriate information

Evolve their information literacy skills over their career

 

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