professional standards and personal development
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Delivered to the Irish Health Sciences Libraries Group, Kilkenny 24 February 2006TRANSCRIPT
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Professional standards and personaldevelopment
Thinking the unthinkable
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My text for today
• The importance of professional standardsand personal development planning in achanging environment. Why are theseimportant and significant for health carelibrarians?
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New rôles
• Outreach Librarians• Clinical Librarians• Knowledge managers• Primary care knowledge managers• Clinical Governance facilitators• R&D facilitators• Information analysts• Lecturers and Trainers• Electronic Resource Managers• Webmasters• Health Informaticians
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The oldest profession?
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What’s a profession?
• Control• Regulate• Educate
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The conventional view
“All professions areconspiracies againstthe laity”.
George Bernard ShawThe Doctors Dilemma
1911
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Professional redefinition
• CILIP:– Framework of Qualifications
• Body of Professional Knowledge– Health EAG– HLG Manifesto
• UKCHIP• MLA/AAHSL:Building on Success Charting
the Future of Knowledge Managementwithin the Academic Health Center
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The Future of the Professions (2001)
• Council of Excellence in Managementand Leadership– Impetus for change from
• Technical development• Increased user expectations and knowledge• New managerialism
• Professions that succeeded were thosewho looked at the future and planned
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Challenges to professionals
• Developments in technology: expertsystems
• New areas of work and tension with otherprofessions
• Corporate whittling away at professionalautonomy
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A crisis
• The UK crisis of confidence in professions:high profile cases focus public concern onregulation of health professions: Bristol,Shipman
• Demographic challenges
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Health as an exemplar
• Vanguard role• Large, diverse• Politically important• Centre for change
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Health EAG
• Roles and opportunities for librarians– Work cross-sectorally across health, social care and education– Work in multidisciplinary teams– Use traditional skills in new ways– Contribute to the development of evidence-based health care and
services– Play a role in the development and cascading of critical appraisal skills
in the workplace– Train and educate users in information skills– Promote the importance of information quality in clinical governance
and risk management– Support rapid decision-making by making better quality information
available– Work with a range of information providers, for example publishers and
public health information analysts, in developing new services
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EBM revolution
• EBM• Changes in health care professions• Flatter networked cultures: teams working,
partnership, user needs• Need for greater quality assurance. Value for
money• New ways of working and learning
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Policy
– The shift of decision making from secondary toprimary care
– A drive to modernise services and improve accessto health care
– The need to ensure quality, safety and equity– Patient and public involvement and empowerment– Addressing the lifelong learning, demographic and
workforce challenges– Harnessing the technical revolutions of the digital
age
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Working with others
• Information professionals• Archivists• Records managers
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Modernising professional educationand CPD (1)
• Reaccreditation (?mandatory)• New ways of delivering:
– E-learning: Folio– Multiple learning styles– Performance indicators
• Network of mentors• Complement NHS knowledge and skills
framework• Work with UKCHIP/MLA’s AHIP
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Modernising professional educationand CPD (2)
• Need for accredited academic,ic modulesin health information
• Audit and accreditation of LIS training andCPD providers
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Influencing
• Policy work• International dimension
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Knight and Brice (1)
• Conclude that libraries are being reshapedin response to changes in:– The economics of information– Advances in computing and communication– Global information policies– Changes in teaching, research and
scholarship
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Knight and Brice (2)
• Expect health libraries to be– Centres of evidence– Libraries without walls– Centres of instruction– Filters– Centres for R&D
Knight, Thalia, Brice, AnneLibrarians, Surgeons and Knowledge
Surgical Clinics of North America, Vol. 86, No. 1. (February2006), pp. 71-90