Continuing professional development

醫學圖書館員因學科背景不足、圖書館學校課程不夠專業化、大環境變化快速且攸關生命、加上資訊技術日新月異等因素，在在都凸顯出醫學圖書館員繼續教育的重要性。本文介紹英美兩國醫學圖書館界在繼續教育方面所做的努力，並拋磚引玉提出幾個值得探討的問題，接著闡明繼續教育的責任歸屬，最後對醫學圖書館員的繼續教育提出建議，希望本文能帶給國內的醫學圖書館員一個反思的機會，同時對於各圖書資訊學系及圖書館學會在規劃正規課程和繼續教育內容時，能提供若干參考。

A number of factors underscore the need for continuing education of medical librarians: insufficient grounding of such personnel in a given subject area, library science curricula that are insufficiently professional, rapid changes in the macro environment affecting our lives, and constant advances in information technology. This article introduces the efforts made by medical library communities in the US and UK toward continuing education. It seeks to stimulate productive examination of this topic by raising several topics that are worthy of discussion and expounding the responsibilities of continuing education of medical librarians. This article aims to provide an opportunity for ROC medical librarians to reassess their knowledge and skills. It can also serve as a reference for curriculum design and continuing education course content being planned by ROC library and information science schools as well as library associations.