ABSTRACT
The position of roles and requirements of professional competency in foreign medical librarians were ana-lyzed in order to provide the experiences of foreign medical librarians for the professional development of domestic medical librarians,which showed that medical librarians play their roles in health information service,health literacy education,scientific research,teaching,clinical decision-making support and public health service, and that their role and competency have been recognized by medical experts and health information users. Medical librarians should not only possess the competency of communication,systematic review,resource evaluation,organization and manage-ment and health management but also the proficiency in teaching and the ability to promote the development of health information industry,which will thus help them to become a health informationist or a clinical information expert.
ABSTRACT
The information-knowledge-intelligence transformation rules were introduced as the theory for the transformation of information service main body for evidence-based medicine according to the analysis of domestic and foreign institutional main body and personal main body for the information service of evidence-based medicine.It was proposed that medical library as the institutional main body should be transformed into information repository + thinking library and clinical medical librarians as the personal main body should be transformed into evidence witness + decision making adviser with associated literacy.