Specialty Board Reading Lists as Selection Guides
Jessica R. Page, The Ohio State University Heather K. Moberly, AHIP, Oklahoma State University Kristine M. Alpi, AHIP, North Carolina State University Vicki F. Croft, AHIP, Washington State University
Who We Are Among You There are 28 American Veterinary Medical Association Accredited Veterinary Schools in the United States. The University of Minnesota in St. Paul has one of them.
Verified 10 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/cvea/colleges_accredited/colleges_accredited.pdf
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Presentation Outline • • • • • • • • • • •
What are the veterinary specialty boards? Timeline for ABVS creation Project Personnel Timeline MLA‐VMLS formalization What We’re Doing How We’re Doing It Output 1: Croft’s Delicious site Output 2: WorldCat.org shared lists Output 3: NCSU web project Results To Date Future Steps
Timeline: To AVBS Creation 1863
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) founded
1950
First specialty organizations proposed: American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) & American College of Veterinary Public Health (ACVPH)
1951
AVMA approves criteria for recognizing veterinary specialty organizations, approves ACVP & ACVPH, and assigns future responsibility to Council on Education (COE) and AVMA Executive Board
1957
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine approved
1959
COE recommends, and AVMA House of Delegates approves, Advisory Board on Veterinary Specialties (ABVS)
Verified 11 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/
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Timeline: Since ABVS Today, AVMA has >80,000 members. There are: – 21 Recognized Specialty Veterinary Organizations (RSVO) • 40 distinct specialties – 1 RSVO with provisional recognition – 1 proposed RSVO – 1 proposed specialty within an RSVO – 10,210 AVMA members are board certified with diplomate status in at least one RSVO. Verified 11 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/ http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/vetspec.asp
American Board of Veterinary Specialties ABVS is comprised of one member and one alternate from each approved veterinary specialty organization, one non‐voting liaison from COE and one non‐ voting member from American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges. Mission Statement: The American Board of Veterinary Specialties (ABVS) of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recognizes and encourages the development of recognized veterinary specialty organizations (RVSOs) promoting advanced levels of competency in well‐defined areas of study or practice categories to provide the public with exceptional veterinary service.
Verified 11 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/
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Current RSVOs part 1
American Board of Veterinary Practitioners American Board of Veterinary Toxicology American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine American College of Poultry Veterinarians American College of Theriogenologists American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists American College of Veterinary Behaviorists American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology American College of Veterinary Dermatology American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care verified 11 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/specialty_orgs/
Current RSVOs part 2 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine American College of Veterinary Microbiologists American College of Veterinary Nutrition American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists American College of Veterinary Pathologists American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine American College of Veterinary Radiology American College of Veterinary Surgeons American College of Zoological Medicine American Veterinary Dental College
verified 11 May 2011 http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/specialty_orgs/
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40 Current Distinct Specialties (21 RSVOs + specialties=40) American Board of Veterinary Practitioners • Avian Practice • Beef Cattle Practice • Canine & Feline Practice • Dairy Practice • Equine Practice • Exotic Companion Mammal Practice • Feline Practice • Food Animal Practice • Reptile and Amphibian Practice • Swine Health Management American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine • Cardiology • Small Animal Internal Medicine • Large Animal Internal Medicine • Neurology • Oncology Verified 11 May 2011
American College of Veterinary Microbiologists • Bacteriology/Mycology • Immunology • Microbiology • Virology American College of Veterinary Pathologists • Anatomic Pathology • Clinical Pathology American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine • Epidemiology American College of Veterinary Radiology • Radiation Oncology American College of Veterinary Surgeons • Small Animal Surgery • Large Animal Surgery
http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/vetspec.asp http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/specialty_orgs/
In Process Provisional Recognition: American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/specialty_orgs/acvsmr.asp Proposed RSVO: American College of Animal Welfare http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/animal‐welfare.asp Proposed Specialty: Parasitology in the American College of Veterinary Microbiology http://www.avma.org/education/abvs/parasitology.asp URLs verified 11 May 2011
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Project Personnel Timeline Vicki F. Croft at Washington State University and Heather K. Moberly at Oklahoma State University were independently working on projects with this data in 2007/2008. Discovering they were inventing similar wheels, they joined forces for a poster at the 6th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (September 2009). The project evolved into a second poster (MLA, May 2010). Kristine M. Alpi, North Carolina State University, indicated interest in the project at ICAHIS in 2009. She and Jessica Page, The Ohio State University joined the formalized VMLS version of the project in May 2010.
MLA – VMLS VMLS formally recognized this project and created a task force. As of May 2010 there are four members (Croft, Moberly, Alpi, and Page).
As a VMLS‐branded project, currency, accuracy, and continuity can be assured.
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What We’re Doing • Gather reading lists from publically accessible websites and requesting directly from boards • Create/maintain delicious site for publically available website lists • Figure out authority problems with citations • Create/maintain Excel spreadsheets of citation data • Create WorldCat.org shared lists • Create website at NCSU from which to develop templates
Why We’re Doing It • Assist specialty board candidates locate recommended reading materials • Collection development tools for veterinary and non‐ veterinary librarians • Basis of a new core list of veterinary books, a companion to the VMLS Basic List of Serials (J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Oct; 98(4):282‐92)
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Output 1: Croft’s Delicious site Croft gathered RSVO reading lists and created a master delicious site (http://www.delicious.com/vcroft) to track web access to the publically available RSVO lists. The information at the delicious site is kept updated and was the basis for Alpi’s initial website linking examination materials at a local level to NCSU holdings. Verified 11 May 2011
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Output 2: WorldCat.org Shared List We chose WorldCat.org to be the authority for citation verification for the reading lists. We created WorldCat.org shared lists for the reading lists under the username VeterinarySpecialtyBoardReadingList http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/VeterinarySpecialtyBoardReadingList/lists
Verified 11 May 2011
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Frustrations with WorldCat.org Reading lists can include: • more items than allowed on a single Worldcat.org shared list • types of items that are not included in Worldcat.org (e.g. websites, articles, etc.) • non‐specific items (e.g. “a good physiology text”) • items, of any format, that are not included in Worldcat.org Items in list: • cannot be searched • cannot be reordered (e.g. by author, date, title) Notes field cannot be searched
Frustrations with WorldCat.org part 2
• Can be multiple records for the same item in WorldCat. – We have to choose which one record to put into shared list. – Different libraries are attached to each record. – Could mean user doesn’t find item from our shared list.
• Patrons might not locate consortial holdings that are available to them.
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Advantages to WorldCat.org • Freely available version of worldcat.org • Authoritative citations • Ability to enter user zip code to link to local library holdings • Zip code linking will be especially useful for practitioners not near veterinary school
Output 3: Web project (NCSU) • Beginning in Spring 2009 and completed September 2010, NCSU created RSVO pages • Have links to each RSVO, even if there is no reading list (2 of 20 have no reading list) • Have links to disambiguated local holdings with both print and online items and explanatory notes • Link from every veterinary library page to the RSVO pages • Link from NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine Internships and Residency pages to appropriate disciplines • 7 initial lists received 7000+ visits in 2009/10. All specialty lists received 33K+ visits from 5/2010‐4/2011.
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Overall Board Website
Multiple ABVP Boards #1 #2 Each list provides: 1. Links to residency or internships programs at the NCSU CVM 2. Headings based on the list 3. Direct links to NCSU Libraries catalog record for individual texts or journals 4. Library Tips – invitation to search the library catalog for additional resources 5. More Info – link back to the Board page where we get the info 6. Return to the main page link
#3
#4 #5 #6
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Referring from CVM
38,000 Board page visits in 2010‐11 represent 34% of Vet Med Library website visits
The NAVLE exam for DVM students gets 14% of the page views. The rest are specialty boards.
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Keeping Up with Changes • Connecting with CVM faculty involved in board examination and residency requirements. • Changedetection.com updates.
Frequency & Source of Changes • 7 of 33 (21%) specialty boards updated resource lists in 2011 [Informant Type] – Am Board Vet Pract – Feline [Change Detection] – Am Coll Vet Internal Med – Oncology [Faculty] – Am Coll Vet Behav [Faculty] – Am Coll Vet Derm [Faculty] – Am Coll Vet Ophthalmol [Change Detection] – Am Coll Vet Pathol [Change Detection] – Am Coll Vet Surg [Change Detection]
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Output 4: Holdings Analysis Holdings for titles on American College of Theriogenologists reading list 282828
# of Veterinary Medicine Libraries
27
2727
27
25
28
28
27
27
26
2525
24
25
28
27
26
23
22
25
24 22
27
26
26
25
21
20 16 14
15
16
15
1414
14
14
13
11
10
9
9
10
17 15
15
13
11
8 4
5 1 0
Holdings for titles on ABVP Feline Practice reading list # of Veterinary Medicine Libraries
26
28
26
28
27
27
25
24
25 22
22
22
25
26
22
20 15
15 12 10
8
5 0
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Holdings Analysis Results • Gaps in holdings were found across veterinary medicine libraries. • Informal comparison of reading lists to holdings at the authors’ libraries has resulted in purchases to fill gaps. • Many titles are widely held at non‐vet med libraries, giving more options to practitioners not near a veterinary school.
Results To Date part 1
• Project and lists have proven value as shown by response from our colleagues and the NCSU web usage statistics. • Collaboration with other veterinary librarians reduces duplication of effort. • VMLS formalizing this as a branded product ensures continuity and quality. • Individual RSVOs, e.g. the American College of Theriogenology, are expressing interest in collaborating. – explore updating reading lists for currency and accuracy – explore collaboration possibilities for reading list distribution
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Results To Date part 2
• Some RSVO reading lists require or recommend journals. The master list was a component of the analysis matrix for the new VMLS Basic Serials List. (J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Oct; 98(4):282‐92)
• Master list was consulted during analysis for veterinary medicine and parasitology chapters of “The Medical Library Association Guide to Health Sciences Information Resources, co‐published by MLA and Neal‐Schuman in 2011. • A veterinary librarian with one–time money for non‐ veterinary books consulted the master list as a buying guide
Future Steps Pursue a formal relationship between VMLS and either ABVS or individual RSVOs Use WorldCat.org shared lists and other Web 2.0 tools to distribute lists to examination candidates, librarians, and others Distribute web template to VMLS members to aid advertising local call numbers Maintain centrally located, authoritative, composite list of materials
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