Fellowships

	Librarian
	Patient Safety
	Salk Medical Ethics
	Alumni

Librarian

The Librarian Fellowship gives librarians the knowledge and skills to effectively direct consumers to reliable health information. Through the Fellowship, librarians increase their awareness of patrons seeking health information and comfort level in discussing difficult health issues with patrons.

In multiple sessions, librarians are exposed to experts in the healthcare field, tour various medical libraries and speak with medical librarians, and learn relationship-building skills. The Fellowship expands librarians' knowledge of the types and sources of reliable information on healthcare providers, health conditions and healthcare quality. In addition, the Fellowship connects librarians' to local experts in the healthcare field they may use for information validation. At Fellowship conclusion, Fellows develop and present a model Consumer Health Reference Interview and each librarian obtains a Consumer Health Information Specialist certification from the Medical Library Association.

Using information from the Fellowship, previous Librarian Fellows were able to update their library systems' consumer health database and related web information, design a staff training module regarding health information, and develop community presentations related to accessing health information. Previous Fellows also maintain a learning network with their cohort.

Eligibility

Librarians who are interested in healthcare quality and health information, are willing to spread learnings throughout their institution, and are willing to continue a learning network with their cohort are an excellent match for this program.

Implementation

Fellowship implementation format and schedule is customized to the needs of participating librarians. The Librarian Fellowship is currently in partnership with the Allegheny County Library Association. Past partners include the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

If you or your library system is interested in this project, please contact Maureen Saxon-Gioia at 412.586.6717 or gioia@jhf.org.

This Fellowship is funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.