Enhancement of the FPIN Librarian Community

Abstract

The Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) is a not-for-profit academic consortium of family medicine residency programs dedicated to promoting evidence-based practice in primary care. Librarians and computer specialists are included in the effort, and the Librarian Community is an organizational entity now comprised of about 80 librarians, mostly academic health sciences librarians, who work in the libraries of the organizations where the family medicine department members are located.

The FPIN Librarian Community was developed through the activities described in the quarterly reports. These activities included: Create the Librarian Team, whose members are one representative from each Founding Member institution’s library, the Librarian Team Leader, and the FPIN Vice President for Information Resources; develop a standardized list of databases to be searched for each Clinical Inquiry; develop search filters to be applied as standard practice for each literature review; and create and refine a search summary report form that guides the librarian to filter the search results and report them based on relevance.