This program seeks to encourage the resident to explore medical information, through didactic and clinical experiences and to apply that information to the management of the care of patients. The goals of the program are to produce family physicians proficient in providing family-oriented primary care. The mission of the Division of Humanism is to insure that the humanistic aspect of medicine becomes an integral part of all educational service and scholarly activities of medical students, residents and faculty physicians. The Department of Family and Community Medicine, with its programs in community health, humanism and policy research, needs a broad base of information in books, journals, audiovisual materials and electronic resources. Kornhauser Health Sciences Library supplies these needs for both clinical and research applications.
Materials are generally in English, but foreign language materials are included in the collection.
There are resources available at Ekstrom to the Department in the areas of psychology, sociology and other sources as necessary. Electronic databases are available not only for medical information but for information in psychology, business, public health and sociology. Acquistion of books is made on a regular basis and the subject areas of medicine required for the Department are included in Kornhauser Library's on-approval order system. We understand that the primary clientele of the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library will be better served when information resources can be delivered directly to their desktops in an immediately useable electronic form. Therefore, a major strategic goal for the Library over the next five years is to provide an increasing base of electronic information resources to our primary clientele.