{"title":"Integrated library instruction for a hybrid dissertation seminar in health related sciences: a retrospective narrative.","authors":"Talicia Tarver, Nina Exner, Lauretta Cathers","doi":"10.1080/02763869.2025.2568128","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health sciences librarian and data management librarian partnered with a health professions faculty member to develop integrated library instruction for a distance PhD dissertation seminar. The librarians employed a variety of best practices techniques for maximizing adult learning, adapted the course for each cohort, and maintained the librarians<b>'</b> presence in the course, even after the COVID-19 pandemic forced permanent changes in hybrid instruction. Feedback from faculty and cohorts is continuously sought, and library instructors are looking to future implications for library instruction with the advent of new technologies, such as affordable course content and generative artificial intelligence.</p>","PeriodicalId":39720,"journal":{"name":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"451-466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2568128","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/10/2 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The health sciences librarian and data management librarian partnered with a health professions faculty member to develop integrated library instruction for a distance PhD dissertation seminar. The librarians employed a variety of best practices techniques for maximizing adult learning, adapted the course for each cohort, and maintained the librarians' presence in the course, even after the COVID-19 pandemic forced permanent changes in hybrid instruction. Feedback from faculty and cohorts is continuously sought, and library instructors are looking to future implications for library instruction with the advent of new technologies, such as affordable course content and generative artificial intelligence.
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This highly acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal is an essential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians. For those professionals who provide reference and public services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings, Medical Reference Services Quarterly covers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health. This exciting and comprehensive resource regularly publishes brief practice-oriented articles relating to medical reference services, with an emphasis on user education, database searching, and electronic information. Two columns feature the Internet and informatics education.