{"id":446,"date":"2015-01-12T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:18:22","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-a-medical-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to be a Medical Librarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting read the other day that I thought I&#8217;d share: <a href=\"http:\/\/hacklibraryschool.com\/2014\/10\/27\/medical-librarianship\/\" title=\"So you want to be a medical librarian, perhaps?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>So you want to be a medical librarian, perhaps?<\/em><\/a> The article interviews four medical librarians and gives useful advice on how they got started in the field. For any of you out there interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences, as I am, it&#8217;s definitely worth a read!<\/p>\n<p>My own tips, which I have done so far, include the following:<\/p>\n<li>join a professional association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chla-absc.ca\/\" title=\"CHLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CHLA<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>take a course in medical librarianship in grad school- my favourite class at SJSU!<\/li>\n<li>complete a medical terminology course- <a href=\"https:\/\/bc.sjatraining.ca\/MedicalTerminology.php\" title=\"St. John Ambulance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. John Ambulance<\/a> offers classes<\/li>\n<li>focus your undergrad degree on a health-related specialty- I majored in psychology<\/li>\n<li>practice searches using PubMed and become familiar with the MESH browser, as well as any medical databases you have access to<\/li>\n<li>follow medical librarians\/libraries\/associations on Twitter and Facebook<\/li>\n<li>interview a medical librarian<\/li>\n<li>volunteer in a hospital library or any health information resource facility<\/li>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting read the other day that I thought I&#8217;d share: So you want to be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medical-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}