CIAP Learning Strategy and Plan 2009

Definition and Scope

The Learning Strategy is designed to ensure that access to and support for learning to effectively use CIAP is in line with the expectation of supporting clinicians to have access to best practice and evidence based clinical information irrespective of location.

Clinicians are defined as professional staff – irrespective of discipline – who are engaged directly or indirectly in the delivery of care to patients.

The scope of the Learning Strategy extends from basic computer literacy through information literacy and effective information and knowledge management to integrating evidence into practice and includes the identification of key competencies and outline curriculum content.

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Objectives

The objectives of the Learning Strategy are to:

• Provide a framework that defines the scope for the Learning Strategy and articulates the various levels to be covered from basic computer skills to putting evidence into practice.
• Identify different delivery models and where these fit into the levels identified within the scope.
• Identify the resources, including potential curriculum content, currently available across the system (within and outside health) that could be utilised.
• Identify the key competencies for each major area covered by the Learning Strategy and the outline curriculum content required.
• Identifying the components that the KMU can deliver and the components that will need to be outsourced or articulate with existing external programs.

Context

The development of the Learning Strategy comes at a time when there are increasing public expectations for transparency in relation to quality of services, high public awareness of what to expect from the health care system and an information and knowledge explosion in terms of resources available to clinicians and managers to provide care based on the best available evidence.

Access sessions to CIAP by clinical staff average around 2.5 million per month, which is indicative of the value placed by users on the availability of accurate online information. Access also reflects the changed way in which users seek information.

Five years ago access sessions to MIMS online were about 400,000 per month, today access sessions are about 1.4 million per month. The usage of all CIAP resources, which includes database searches, full text book selections and full text article requests, demonstrates substantial growth since the inception of CIAP in 1998.

Outcomes

The Learning Strategy provides the opportunity for both practical delivery of support to users and those involved in teaching and supporting users of CIAP, and strategic system wide approaches that will provide consistency and recognition for users irrespective of location. The following activities will be implemented over the next 12 months:

• Development of the basic computer skills modules
• Development of the information skills modules
• Development of the advanced information skills modules
• Development of the evidence into practice module
• Development of train the trainer support and resources
• Supporting activities such as marketing and promotion, certification and credentialing

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