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Information Literacy Self-Efficacy of Medical Students: A Longitudinal Study

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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Objectives: Medical curricula are investing more and more in educating students as lifelong reflective learners. The research analyses the development of medical students’ information literacy self-efficacy and measures the differences between study years. Methods: Data has been collected within a 6-year curriculum for four continuous academic years. Students evaluated their information literacy self-efficacy on a validated information literacy self-efficacy scale for medicine. In 2016, the research was finalised with a qualitative part. One-way ANOVA with post-hoc tests and unpaired Student’s t-test were performed. Outcomes: Results confirm the impact of training and practice on students’ information literacy self-efficacy. Furthermore, information literacy self-efficacy increases overall in more recent years. This research proposes the need to integrate information literacy skills in the curriculum at the right time, at different key-moments and adjusted by level.

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  1. Library and Information Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Ann De Meulemeester

  2. Knowledge Centre for Health Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Ann De Meulemeester, Renaat Peleman & Heidi Buysse

  3. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan De Maeseneer

  4. Department of Training and Education Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Sven De Maeyer

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

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  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

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  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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De Meulemeester, A., De Maeseneer, J., De Maeyer, S., Peleman, R., Buysse, H. (2019). Information Literacy Self-Efficacy of Medical Students: A Longitudinal Study. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_25

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