<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Heather J. Martin, MISt,
AHIP, serves as the director of system library services for Providence St.
Joseph Health. Please download and read Heather’s article, Hospital
Librarians: Training the Next Generation of Doctors, here: <a href="https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss1/10/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss1/10/</a><br></font></span></div><div><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span></span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">From Heather’s article, “Hospital
librarians address a wide array of information needs. They help nurses figure
out how to take care of patients, help physicians with difficult cases, help
families get reliable health information, and sometimes the information they
provide even helps save a life. They also play an important role in training
the next generation of doctors. At one hospital in Oregon, Providence St.
Joseph Health System Library Services has integrated traditional library
instruction directly into the curriculum of the Internal Medicine Residency
Program.”<span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%">Heather J. Martin describes an effort by Providence St.
Joseph Health to utilize librarians to support and train doctors with their
research needs, to improve the health outcomes of their patients.<span> </span>Perhaps this program can be duplicated at
hospitals worldwide. Perhaps this article will inspire you to join this noble
mission to serve humanity in a new way. Perhaps we should read and share this
article <span>widely</span> as if someone’s life
depends upon it.<span> <br></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">OLA Communications</font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span><span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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