Position of roles and requirements of professional competency in foreign medical librarians / 中华医学图书情报杂志

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.