MLA Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success


      
1. Understand the health science and health care environment and the policies, issues, and trends that impact that environment

      
2. Know and understand the application of leadership, finance, communication, and management theory and techniques.

HealthCAS Courses


Course-1

Examination of the healthcare environment and professional roles. Consideration of internal and external factors: finances, regulations and legislation. Exploration of various healthcare settings, research and grants, evidence-based practice, patient-centered focus, and information technologies used by healthcare professionals.


      
3. Understand the principles and practices related to providing information services to meet users' needs.

      
4. Have the ability to manage health information resources in a broad range of formats.

      
5. Understand and use technology and systems to manage all forms of information.

Course-2

Selection, collection and access to print and electronic library and information resources and services in the healthcare environment. Budgets and justification of selections, vendor relations, licensing, and scholarly holdings management. Examination of technologies used in health sciences library settings.




      
6. Understand curricular design and instruction and have the ability to teach ways to access, organize, and use information


      
7. Understand scientific research methods and have the ability to critically examine and filter research literature from many related disciplines.
      

Course-3

Examination of reference services with special focus on evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews and meta analyses, instructional and consulting services, imbedded, clinical and liaison services. Library services to special populations in the healthcare environment.

Individual Research Project

Individual research project to provide the student with an opportunity to experience the research process.