Webinar: Preparing Biomedical Information Professionals to Understand and Teach Research Data Management

As part of the NIH BD2K training initiative, two curricula were created to prepare medical librarians to understand and teach research data management to researchers. The first curricula is web-based and uses interactive educational technologies to provide librarians with a better understanding of research data management, as well as the practice and culture of biomedical research. A second curriculum was developed as a toolkit to be used by librarians for in-person teaching of researchers and consists of slides, scripts, evaluation tools, and instructions. Several modules in the toolkit allow for guided customization on topics where institution specific material is important (e.g., data storage). Evaluation of educational materials included assessments of knowledge gain, satisfaction, comfort level with material, and intent to use. For the online modules, assessments are incorporated into the modules and for the teaching toolkit, a survey is administered after the in-person class. Prior to broad dissemination, both curricula were piloted. Following piloting, these curricula were made freely available, with outreach to the medical librarian community to encourage use at institutions across the United States to facilitate biomedical data management, sharing, and reuse. BIO Alisa Surkis is the Head of Data Services and the Translational Science librarian. The Data Services unit provides support for research data management and data visualization, maintains an institutional data...
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