Ben Skinner BSc (Hons) MA

After a first degree in mathematics Ben moved into librarianship, working in the universities at Bath and Salford and gaining his Masters at MMU.

Moving to Brighton in 2004, Ben took up the post of Evidence-Based Knowledge Management Librarian at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. This role focuses on the running of a unique information service aimed at supporting evidence-based practice (EBP) throughout the local trusts.

As part of this service Ben has taught both critical appraisal skills and literature searching for EBP, initially to NHS staff and more recently for the Brighton & Sussex Medical School.

Abstract

Integrating information literacy into the curriculum for medical students.

In October 2005 Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust librarians developed two separate teaching programmes for Brighton & Sussex Medical School year 3 students. The first, entitled Evidence Based Practice: Information Skills, was delivered to all 135 students over a two week period. The second was a student selected component (SSC) entitled Finding the Evidence: making sound clinical decisions and taught in 8 week blocks over the whole year to students who had chosen this course from fifty SSC's.

Jil Fairclough and Ben Skinner will describe how they developed and delivered these teaching sessions and what they learnt from the experience.

Presented with Jil Fairclough

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