Delivering Internet health resources to an underserved health care profession: school nurses.

Purpose: This paper reports on a course developed for school nurses. The course focused on locating reliable and high-quality medical information resources on the Internet.

Setting/participants/resources: The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) of the University of Pittsburgh formed a partnership with the Pennsylvania Association of School Nurses and Practitioners (PASNAP).

Designing a curriculum on Internet health resources for deaf high school students.

Purpose: This paper examines the integration of instruction about quality health resources on the Internet into the health curriculum of a specialized high school for students with hearing disabilities.

Setting/participants/resources: The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh has formed a partnership with the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD).

Brief Description: This project was partially funded through a subcontract with the National Library of Medicine.

Use of Web-based library resources by medical students in community and ambulatory settings.

Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the use of Web-based library resources by third-year medical students.

Setting/participants/resources: Third-year medical students (147) in a twelve-week multidisciplinary primary care rotation in community and ambulatory settings.

Methodology: Individual user surveys and log file analysis of Website were used.