'Bringing Information Literacy Into Your Clinical Teaching' Instructor Package

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an important component of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training, and health sciences librarians may be called to teach this given their expertise. Yet, learners refine their EBM skills in the real-world setting, where they are guided by clinical educators who may not recognize that EBM exists as part of a wider information literacy (IL) ecosystem. The continuing professional development program Bringing Information Literacy into your Clinical Teaching was designed to train clinical educators (specifically physicians) on the importance of information literacy skills, and how to incorporate discussions about this into their teaching at the bedside. It was first launched in March 2026 in the Canadian medical education setting.

This instructor package offers the compiled materials from this program. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, it is available for health sciences librarians who wish to recycle its content in their own teaching of healthcare faculty and/or learners. The materials are in Microsoft Word format to facilitate copying/pasting, and handouts are available as Canva templates for easy customization. While this program was designed to run in a learning management system, the materials can be used/combined in various formats and do not require access to a learning platform to be useful to instructors.