Robishaw S M, Roth B G
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania 17822-2101.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1994 Apr;82(2):206-13.
The Geisinger Medical Center Library implemented a GRATEFUL MED outreach project in rural north-central Pennsylvania directed at providing physicians access to current medical literature. A total of 1,327 physicians affiliated with twenty-three hospitals practice in a thirteen-county area the size of the state of New Jersey. Of these hospitals, only four have hospital libraries, which vary in size and in staff abilities to meet the information needs of their affiliated physicians. The outreach project encompassed two stages--demonstrations of GRATEFUL MED and LOANSOME DOC at county medical society or hospital meetings, and installation and training in individual offices. The eighteen-month project ended in March 1992. Statistics were collected for the number of GRATEFUL MED software packages loaded (sixty-two), the number of document delivery items supplied by Geisinger Medical Center Library to project participants (367), and the number of physicians attending introductory demonstrations or follow-up training programs (455 at sixty-eight sessions). By the end of the project, 147 (32%) of those who had attended a seminar had access to GRATEFUL MED.
盖辛格医疗中心图书馆在宾夕法尼亚州中北部农村地区开展了一项“感恩医学”推广项目，旨在让医生能够获取最新的医学文献。共有1327名隶属于23家医院的医生在一个面积与新泽西州相当的13个县的区域内执业。在这些医院中，只有4家拥有医院图书馆，其规模和员工满足附属医生信息需求的能力各不相同。推广项目包括两个阶段——在县医学协会或医院会议上演示“感恩医学”和“借阅文档”，以及在各个办公室进行安装和培训。这个为期18个月的项目于1992年3月结束。收集了关于加载的“感恩医学”软件包数量（62个）、盖辛格医疗中心图书馆向项目参与者提供的文献传递资料数量（367份）以及参加入门演示或后续培训项目的医生数量（在68场会议中有455人）的统计数据。到项目结束时，参加过研讨会的人中有147人（32%）能够使用“感恩医学”。
