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The Benefits of Integrating Information Literacy Activities into the Higher Education Curriculum of Future Healthcare Professionals

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Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century (ECIL 2014)

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It is often said that Internet users are not information literate at the level they are expected to be. Internet is right now the most used means to search and find information on any field of knowledge, and has become ’the’ primary source of information for both health professionals and patients. It is essential for medical students to master information literacy skills. Since digital education has been revealed as indispensable for improving users’ information skills, and the labour market is requesting more and more information literate people, academic structures are the most indicated to take over this issue. This paper provides a reflection on the benefits of embedding information literacy into the academic curriculum of students in Medical and Health Sciences, and on institutional measures that can contribute to the improvement of the information literacy skills of the future health professionals.

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    Carme Hernández-Rabanal

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  4. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  5. University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Ralph Catts

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Hernández-Rabanal, C. (2014). The Benefits of Integrating Information Literacy Activities into the Higher Education Curriculum of Future Healthcare Professionals. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_35

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