| Abstract |
Since 1962, China has developed and organized professional education and training on a certain scale for medical librarians. In 1985, approved by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health, library and information science (medical pharmaceutical) was set up in the Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences (Changchun) as a regular 5-year undergraduate specialty. Subsequently, a similar specialty was set up in Tongji Medical University (Wuhan), Hunan Medical University (Changsha) and Chinese Medical University (Shenyang). This specialty was renamed “informatics (medical, pharmaceutical)” in 1993 and “information management and information system specialty (medical informatics specialty direction) ” in 1998. And its training objective transformed gradually from the single mode of training medical librarians to the broad-based and multi-level education mode training talents in medical information management. Curricula includes ideological course module (7.1%), natural science course module (27.7%), body and mind quality course module (3.25%), and professional course module (61.95%) in which medical courses (40.59%) and information management courses (21.36%) focused on systematically. Education of medial library and information science faces new development opportunities and challenges since medical universities and comprehensive universities merged after the education system reform in 2000.
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