The Role of Clinical and Health Sciences Librarians in Health Information

Literacy and Dissemination

In this week’s podcast we get the opportunity to interview Denise Smith, a

Health Sciences Librarian at McMaster University, and a sessional course

instructor in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program. In this podcast,

Denise shares the role of health sciences librarians, clinical librarians

and more, in promoting health information literacy and conducting

informative research within the health sciences. She discusses how

librarians work with physicians, researchers and other allied health

professionals within the field of evidence-based research and patient and

student information education. Denise also shares advice for prospective

healthcare students in regard to critically appraising the literature and

data sources they are exposed to.