EDUCATING PHYSICIANS TO USE THE DIGITAL LIBRARY

Skill in creating, finding, managing, and using biomedical information is a vital component of modern medical practice. Medical schools reco gnize the revolutionary implications of computing technology and use a number of different strategies to integrate ''informatics education'' into their curricula. In many institutions, leadership for this effor t tests with the health sciences library and/or the department of medi cal informatics. Examples are presented of how nine medical schools ha ve implemented informatics education; no single informatics-education strategy prevails, and these schools' strategies do not exhaust the po ssibilities. Informatics education programs will require better planni ng and integration in the future because of the need to keep pace with curriculum reform, the changing context of medical practice, and the speed of technological innovation.