Medical Social Work Informationist

描述：该奖学金的目的是通过培训、实习和研究项目来培养一个医疗社会工作信息学家的职位，该职位将专注于促进消费者获得健康信息。将社会工作技能与信息检索技能相结合，不仅提高了客户对健康信息的使用，而且还为客户提供了与社会工作者的即时联系，后者可以减轻处理可能出现的大量信息的压力。随附的研究提案将包括制定流程，使女性客户更容易获得和使用医疗保健信息。该提案包括通过互联网提供一个虚拟位置，客户可以在那里研究他们具体的健康问题，收集信息，以便在做出医疗保健和生活方式决定时使用。该提案还包括一名顾问，该顾问将为客户提供帮助，帮助他们批判性地考虑现有的信息。提案中包括一个研究部分，将衡量项目对客户健康的影响。研究部分还考虑了社会支持的感知感受对客户使用医疗保健信息的影响。

DESCRIPTION: The aim of this fellowship is to develop through training, the practicum, and research project a medical social work informationist position that will focus on facilitating access to health information for consumers. Combining social work skills with information retrieval skills not only enhances clients use of health information but also provides the client with immediate access to a social worker who can mitigate the stress of dealing with what might appear as an overwhelming amount of information. The accompanying research proposal will include development of processes by which healthcare information can be made more accessible and usable for female clients. The proposal includes providing a virtual location via the internet where clients can research their specific health concerns to gather information to be used when making healthcare and lifestyle decisions. The proposal also includes a consultant who will be available to clients to help them critically consider the information available. Included in the proposal is a research component that will measure the impact of the project on clients' health. The research component also considers the impact of perceived feelings of social support on the clients' use of healthcare information.