October is National Medical Librarian’s Month
Your medical librarian is here to provide access to the latest healthcare information for medical professionals, students, and researchers. We do literature searches, teach classes, and ensure access to resources—just to name a few of the things we do! Best of all, we increase the quality of patient care.
October is also Health Literacy Month! 
What is Health Literacy?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines personal Health Literacy as the “degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.”
The most important thing to know about health literacy is that with lower or inadequate health literacy levels, patients are unable to understand what they need to do to take care of their personal healthcare needs.
To get tips about communicating with patients and overcoming health literacy barriers, HSLIC will have an online workshop about health literacy on Friday, October 27, 2023, from noon - 1:00 p.m. Register Here.
