Congratulations to Jonathan Eldredge, PhD, for receiving the 2021 HSC Faculty Excellence in Research Award in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning! View the virtual event here. Dr. Eldredge’s award starts at 28:35.
The winning faculty members were nominated by their colleagues for this award, and selected through a vigorous peer review selection process by the HSC Excellence in Research Award Committee.
Coupled with being HSLIC’s Evidence Based Practice Librarian, Dr. Eldredge is also the Associate Fellowship Director of the UNM School of Medicine (SOM) Clinical Informatics Program, Professor and in the SOM Department of Family & Community Medicine, Professor in the College of Population Health, and Vice Chair of the SOM Curriculum Committee.
From HSLIC’s Executive Director, Melissa Rethlefsen:
“Jon is recognized internationally for his continuing excellence in research on Evidence Based Practice teaching and research…In 2013, Jon won the Lucretia McClure Excellence in Education Award, which is one of the top awards for our field. Jon has also won 11 awards for his research from the Medical Library Association, the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, and the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. He has published over 65 peer reviewed journal articles and 22 book chapters...He has furthermore been invited to give 95 regional, national, and international presentations. Jon's works have been cited over 1500 times and 32 of his publications have been cited 10 or more times…
There are really very few librarians who have such a robust, longstanding history of scholarship by these kinds of numbers alone, but what really makes Jon’s scholarship unique is his commitment to high quality research designs to answer library and information practice questions. He is one of the few health sciences librarians to conduct randomized controlled trials and Jon has done five. He has used randomized controlled trials to study the efficacy of different methods of teaching learners how to implement evidence based practice. Most recently, he led one study on whether a rubric designed to improve medical students’ ability to formulate clinical questions would be improved with the addition of a 25-minute educational session designed to teach the students skills and offer practice using the rubric. It was built directly on a quasi-experimental study, which had shown the efficacy of this rubric earlier. And together, these studies demonstrated a novel and efficacious way to train medical students to ask better questions…
His pioneering research has really impacted how health sciences students and professionals are taught these critical skills internationally. And, in particular, he has really also increased the deep engagement of librarians in evidence based practice education.”
Congratulations to Dr. Eldredge on this outstanding achievement - This is a well-deserved honor! Much thanks is also in order for your many contributions to the health sciences librarianship profession and healthcare community.
To learn more about Dr. Eldredge’s work, visit https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3132-9450.
