Golden W E, Friedlander I R
Med Educ. 1987 Jul;21(4):314-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1987.tb00370.x.
Medical professionals are highly dependent on personal libraries and reprint files as their sources for current information. A large population of practising doctors have poorly organized medical literature data bases in their professional environment. To expedite the development of a personal library data base by medical students, we created MEDFILE, a preprinted, cross-indexed file folder system for organizing the medical literature. This paper reports the results of two surveys performed in connection with the distribution of the MEDFILE system. One hundred per cent of the students who used MEDFILE found the system to be beneficial. Ninety-seven per cent felt their ability to find their personal literature improved by using MEDFILE, and 65% felt MEDFILE improved their clinical preparation. Of all surveyed recipients of the system, 96.8% felt MEDFILE would be useful in their future studies.
医学专业人员高度依赖个人图书馆和重印文件作为获取当前信息的来源。大量执业医生在其专业环境中拥有组织混乱的医学文献数据库。为了加快医学生个人图书馆数据库的开发，我们创建了MEDFILE，这是一个预印的、交叉索引的文件夹系统，用于整理医学文献。本文报告了与MEDFILE系统分发相关的两项调查结果。使用MEDFILE的学生中有100%认为该系统有益。97%的人认为使用MEDFILE后他们查找个人文献的能力有所提高，65%的人认为MEDFILE改善了他们的临床准备。在所有接受该系统调查的人中，96.8%的人认为MEDFILE在他们未来的学习中会有用。
