Table 5 Qualitative Comments Regarding Involvement in Curriculum

Increased Involvement in Curriculum

“We have more dedicated time in the curriculum that we did not have before.”

“The librarians are more involved in conducting classes for clinical and pre-clinical courses.”

“There was library involvement in the curriculum prior to the Core EPAs; however, the EPAs have definitely provided a focus for our efforts and a better set of shared language and goals.”

“…allows us to […] become more involved in assessment. Assessing skills and knowledge for EPAs will require multiple points of data for each EPA and will probably require more performance and portfolio-based assessments.”

“…has increased the awareness of the value of the library among teaching faculty, lent credibility to librarians’ work because of the mandating of information literacy skills at a higher level, and deepened collaboration and increased partnerships with medical school faculty.”

Little or No Change in Involvement in Curriculum

“Our involvement is essentially the same, as are the sessions we teach - only the specific classification of these sessions has changed.”

“Involvement has evolved over time, independent of the Core EPAs.”

“I guess a lot of it really is more of the usual information literacy instruction, but we are using it to satisfy some of the EPA requirements.”