History of the
UMKC Clinical Medicine Librarian Program

The grant

The CML, or clinical medicine librarian, was the only newly created position on the health care team. It was funded by a grant from the National Library of Medicine:
"to plan and evaluate a program to meet the biomedical communication needs of medical students, house officers, physicians, and health care team members in a representative general hospital.
Three Science Information Specialists [later renamed clinical medicine librarians] will serve as members of each of three patient care and docent teams on the general medicine service for the Kansas City General Hospital and Medical Center. These specialists will perform the following functions: (1) observe and describe the biomedical information needs of the health care team members, (2) identify the characteristics of the supporting medical literatures and (3) develop the directions for the feasible organization of a retrieval system."
Biomedical Librarians in the Patient Care Setting grant, Richardson K. Noback, M.D.-Principal Investigator, Gertrude Lamb, Ph.D.--Project Director.

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http://research.med.umkc.edu/teams/cml/CMLhist.html updated 5/98 by B. R. Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA