J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 1;110(1):119-125. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1108.
Pharmacy students are primarily taught literature searching skills didactically during their Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. To effect change in the area of advanced literature searching skills, a pharmacy librarian joined with two Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) preceptors to design and implement a crash course on applied systematic searching skills for a cohort of four students.
Through the cognitive apprenticeship model, a Systematic Searching Crash Course (SSCC) was implemented among a cohort of four academic APPE students. Students developed search strategies using controlled vocabulary and free text, translated their searches into multiple databases, and used citation management software to build libraries of evidence. Additionally, the cohort blindly peer reviewed each other's search strategies, wrote literature reviews, and finally conducted a search together without input from the pharmacy librarian.
Review of the pre-/post-course self-assessment taken by the cohort indicates the SSCC is a success in terms of improving student confidence in accessing and synthesizing primary literature. As the crash course is further refined and implemented, there may be more opportunity to embed the course into didactic curriculum and residency programs and to potentially reproduce it for other health science disciplines.
药学专业的学生在药学博士课程中主要通过教学法学习文献检索技能。为了在高级文献检索技能领域取得变革，一名药学图书管理员与两名高级实践经验（APPE）导师合作，为四组学生设计并实施了一门应用系统检索技能速成课程。
通过认知学徒制模式，对四组学术 APPE 学生实施了系统检索速成课程（SSCC）。学生使用受控词汇和自由文本制定搜索策略，将搜索结果转换到多个数据库，并使用引文管理软件建立证据库。此外，该组学生还对彼此的搜索策略进行了盲目同行评审，撰写文献综述，最后在没有图书管理员帮助的情况下一起进行搜索。
对该组学生在课程前后的自我评估进行审查表明，SSCC 在提高学生获取和综合原始文献的信心方面取得了成功。随着速成课程的进一步完善和实施，可能有更多机会将其纳入教学课程和住院医师培训计划，并有可能为其他健康科学学科复制该课程。
