TY - JOUR
T1 - Sharing MedlinePlus®/MEDLINE® for Information Literacy Education (SMILE)
T2 - A Dental Public Health Information Project
AU - Gaines, Julie K.
AU - Levy, Linda S.
AU - Cogdill, Keith W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded in whole, or in part, with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505 with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - The SMILE project represented a partnership among the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Libraries, the Gateway Clinic in Laredo, and the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. The project focused on improving dental practitioners' access to reliable information resources and integrating the best evidence into public health dental practice. Through its training program, SMILE cultivated a set of "power information users" among the dentists, dental hygienists, and community health workers (promotores) who provided public health preventive care and oral health education. The dental public health practitioners gained information literacy skills and increased their knowledge about reliable sites such as blogs, PubMed®, and MedlinePlus®. This project fostered opportunities for expanded partnerships with public health personnel.
AB - The SMILE project represented a partnership among the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Libraries, the Gateway Clinic in Laredo, and the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. The project focused on improving dental practitioners' access to reliable information resources and integrating the best evidence into public health dental practice. Through its training program, SMILE cultivated a set of "power information users" among the dentists, dental hygienists, and community health workers (promotores) who provided public health preventive care and oral health education. The dental public health practitioners gained information literacy skills and increased their knowledge about reliable sites such as blogs, PubMed®, and MedlinePlus®. This project fostered opportunities for expanded partnerships with public health personnel.
KW - Consumer health information
KW - dental health education
KW - dental hygienists
KW - dentists
KW - librarians
KW - outreach programs
KW - public health dentistry
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U2 - 10.1080/02763869.2011.609016
DO - 10.1080/02763869.2011.609016
M3 - Article
C2 - 22040242
AN - SCOPUS:84857421154
SN - 0276-3869
VL - 30
SP - 357
EP - 364
JO - Medical Reference Services Quarterly
JF - Medical Reference Services Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -
