How to be a Medical Librarian / Consumer Health Librarian

How to be a medical librarian / consumer health librarian:

• Career Resources for Medical Librarians — continuing education, mentors, etc (from Medical Library Association)
• Consumer Health Manual — complete guide to setting up and running a consumer health library (from National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
• Patient Education Matters! — blog for developing, sharing, using patient education materials

Resources for Medical / Consumer Health Librarians

Just a few things I’ve run across so far. There’s lots more out there!

Sources of info for patrons / patients:

• Consumer Health for Kids & Teens — links to sites (from National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
• Consumer Health web sites — list of links compiled by the Health Sciences Library at Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• Medem Medical Library — patient education info, provided by various medical associations
• Medical Reference for non-Medical Librarians — Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado, Denver
• Public Health Image Library (PHIL) — US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Visual Medical Dictionary — does not display images of the searched topics, it displays a “concept map” of related terms

Misc

The Krafty Librarian – blog by a medical librarian

List of medical librarianship blogs (from LIS Wiki)

Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven — blog by a hospital librarian