Judy M. Spak

ORCID: 0000-0003-0705-168X
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Research Areas
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Social Media in Health Education
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Adult and Continuing Education Topics
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Whitney Museum of American Art
2007-2023

Yale University
2019-2020

Abstract Background Developing a comprehensive, reproducible literature search is the basis for high-quality systematic review (SR). Librarians and information professionals, as expert searchers, can improve quality of searches, methodology, reporting. Likewise, journal editors authors often seek to published SRs other evidence syntheses through peer review. Health sciences librarians contribute production but little known about their involvement in reviewing SR manuscripts. Methods This...

10.1186/s41073-019-0083-5 article EN cc-by Research Integrity and Peer Review 2019-11-27

Background Many Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs offer clinician-educator curricula. The specific instructional methods employed and current best practices for curricula are unknown. We aimed to characterize the structure, curriculum content, methods, outcomes of longitudinal GME curricula.Methods conducted a scoping review, registered with BEME, by comprehensively searching health science databases related grey literature from January 2008 2021 studies involving train future...

10.1080/0142159x.2022.2039381 article EN Medical Teacher 2022-02-23

The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML) at the Yale School of Medicine has offered a "Personal Librarian" (PL) program to medical center students since 1996. This outreach matches professional librarian as they matriculate, relationship that is maintained until student graduates. PLs offer individualized assistance for almost anything-from interpreting library policies and procedures helping locate materials assisting with thesis research. requires nominal effort on part librarians,...

10.1300/j115v26n04_02 article EN Medical Reference Services Quarterly 2007-12-10

This study was conducted to examine gaps and opportunities for involvement of librarians in medical education patient care as well improve the teaching assessment Entrustable Professional Activity 7 (EPA 7) -- ability form clinical questions retrieve evidence advance care. The Association Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Competency-Based Medical Education Task Force surveyed all AAHSL member libraries October 2016 on health sciences librarian awareness assessing EPA 7. survey...

10.1186/s12909-019-1764-y article EN cc-by BMC Medical Education 2019-09-03

In the past forty years, clinician-educators have become indispensable to academic medicine. Numerous clinician-educator-training programs exist within graduate medical education (GME) as clinician-educator tracks (CETs). However, there is a call for pipeline begin earlier. This work aims identify and characterize track-like (CETLs) available in undergraduate (UME). We developed an algorithm of 20 individual keyword queries search website each U.S. allopathic school CETLs. performed web...

10.1080/10872981.2022.2096841 article EN cc-by Medical Education Online 2022-07-07

AbstractBackground:Developing a comprehensive, reproducible literature search is the basis for high-quality systematic review (SR). Librarians and information professionals, as expert searchers, can improve quality of searches, methodology, reporting. Likewise, journal editors authors often seek to published SRs other evidence syntheses through peer review. Health sciences librarians contribute production but little known about their involvement in reviewing SR manuscripts.Methods:This...

10.31219/osf.io/n7w49 preprint EN 2019-04-10
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