Content curation for health and information literacies of medical students and MDs. A presentation at NASCE 2023 meeting in Nancy, France.

1. CONTENT CURATION
FOR HEALTH AND INFORMATION LITERACIES
OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND MDs
GC Faure MD, PhD
Immunologie
Faculté de Médecine
and CREM
Université Lorraine, Nancy

2. Overview
Background: Infobesity
Media and Information Literacy
Content Curation: Tools… Scoop.it
Medical Immunology and more
Implementation for
Connected learning,
Active learning and more
Results and Evaluation
Advantages and challenges
« Simulation of academic writing»
No conflict of interest to declare
EACCME Rep for Lab Medicine UEMS section

3. MIL 2022
Media and Information Literacy
Although it was an objective for Society
2020
In the context of Infobesity
Health and MIL of medical students
remains poor

4. Content Curation
A not so recent concept (2010’s)
It allows to
find, select
aggregate
elevate, comment, editorialize
share
archive and retrieve later
Many tools>50… (Pinterest, Flipboard..)

5. • In our experience,
• https://www.scoop.it/u/gilbertcfaure
• one of the best curation tools on the web for « serious
information »
– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities
• A virtual scientific news journal and « content hub »
easy to browse with pictures
– Search engine « inside » is a major asset
• Human factor of curation is the added value compared
to robots (SEO), and AI.
• But the limit, requiring persistent work

6. Curating information is creating
Snippets (nuggets) of information
Title
Illustration
Summary
Comments
Tags: Keywords

7. Methods
UE Master 7.309
DIU Méthodologies de la recherche médicale et chirurgicale
Implementation of Scoop.it Content Curation tool
for active/hybrid learning in a module on
clinical research
50/100 students (medicine, maieutic) +10 chinese
students from Nancy Wuhan training program
Introductory course on Scientific Information
Access to Curated Resources by teachers
Open and maintain a medical topic of interest
using Scoop.it free plan (one topic, up to 50
posts)
Opinion and evaluation survey
after 3 months

8. Results (before course)
Literacies (information, digital,
health) poor for most french
students, better for chinese
No previous knowledge of concept of
content curation (but Pinterest) or of
Scoop.it tool
No specific training in information
usage,
either scientific or media

9. Results
Diversity of topics (Alzheimer,
Autoimmunity, Cancer, Cardiology,
Gynecology, Grafts, HIV, Neurology…
Phagotherapy…)
At least 25 posts… up to full load (65%)
Medical (80%) + Lay people resources
Keywords, Comments and summaries
Usage of English >60%

10. Evaluation/survey
Very positive
Discovery of information and medical
literature, either scientific
and/or for lay people, very much diverse than
previously thought
Discovery of medical and english vocabulary
Enjoyed active, and self learning
Different from passive courses
(ludique et intéressant, enrichissant…)
Understood micro/mobile-learning(s)
Willing to pursue (+++)

11. Limits
Time consuming
Language barriers of published papers
but positive on learning english
Discovery of costs of access of scientific
literature
Discovery of Open Access

12. Discussion:
Simulation of « self CPD » and of
academic writing !
An easy way of discovering new knowledge in
specific/new fields of interest
Learning to read and write
Stimulating curiosity
Developing health and information literacy
Building e-portfolio for research projects
Initiating autonomous learning
for Life Long Learning

13. Conclusion
Content curation is used for knowledge
management in corporate settings, and for
marketing purposes, teaching and learning in
other disciplines (geography..)
Can be used for blended-, hybrid-, self-, micro-
… learning by medical students engaged in
clinical research training.