Course Description

Upon successful completion of readings, assignments, and class participation, students will be able to:
1. Analyze major problems related to meeting consumer health information needs in a spirit of creativity and critical inquiry (PLLO 1);

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of health and medicine and the organization of biomedical research and consumer health literature (PLLO 2);

3. Critically assess issues in formal and informal health communication and the role of the librarian in providing consumer health information (PLLO 4 and 5);

4. Identify, select, evaluate, organize, and provide access to recorded medical information in a variety of formats (PLLO 6);

5. Effectively use the specialized vocabulary and forms of medical and health literature to retrieve relevant material; (PLLO 6);

6. Demonstrate an understanding of the information seeking by people with health concerns and by health care practitioners;

7. Identify needs of ordinary people for health-related information and develop collections and services to meet these needs (PLLO 8).