Editorial
Medical education and practice in the information age
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An exponential increase in the volume of recorded knowledge and
continuing rapid development of the technology available for accessing
it have become part of our way of life. In the medical context Tony
Blair stated in 1998 that "the challenge for the NHS is to harness
the information revolution and use it to benefit patients".1 This poses a major challenge for hospital
libraries, which until recently (with the exception of those in the
university teaching hospitals) have lagged behind libraries in higher
education in embracing and utilising the potential of the "new" IT.
The imperative for developing access to electronic resources such as
databases, electronic journals, and the internet has been reinforced by
successive governments' initiatives on modernising health care in the
UK. The adoption of clinical governance, and the emphasis on evidence
based medicine to provide better and more cost effective health care
have in particular made access to the
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