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Health Science

Introduction

Badya University Library is dedicated to enhancing learning and academic development, as well as providing instruction program sessions that meet the academic and educational requirements of each school. This webpage presents an overview of the library instruction program, including available sessions, objectives, and essential instructions.

Health science sessions are designed for students and faculty members in the schools of medicine, dentistry, and physical therapy. To provide instructional content specifically to the school's nature.

For individual needs, the library provides consultation sessions with a librarian to personalize the content with continuous support and guidance for the research process.

Overview Objectives

  • Optimize Research Skills: Develop the student's ability to understand the formula and process of the research, starting with the research documentation, research methodology, and evidence-based medicine (EBM).

  • Enhance Soft Skills: Focus on the required skills for research, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, time management, and organization skills.

  • Improve Academic Writing Skills: Support academic writing, as it is a fundamental pillar in research development. Through practical sessions.

  • Strengthen AI Literacy skills: Enable students to use AI effectively and ethically by considering all the abilities and levels.

  • Advance Information Literacy skills: Develop advanced information literacy skills in evaluating information, searching in databases, using search techniques, and collecting trusted resources.

  • Develop Research Data Management Literacy: Provide guidance on managing data effectively.

  • Integrate Academic Designing: Creating academic materials, visual presentations, infographics, and scientific posters. Meet the academic design principles.

Important Instructions

  • The school must schedule a meeting with the library at least two weeks before each session, to ensure the availability of: (librarian - location - date and time).

  • The school provides the library with with curriculum, assignments, and research papers that will be requested from students during the academic year, as well as the library covering all the essential requirements in the sessions.

  • The faculty member and teaching assistant can attend the sessions.

  • The faculty member and teaching assistant can get a consultation in any inquiry related to their academic needs by requesting consultation with the librarian.

  • The library provides more sessions according to academic needs and students’ suggestions throughout the academic year.

Program sessions

Information Literacy
Academic Integrity
AI Literacy
Introduction to Research Methodology
Introduction to Research Documentation
Principles of Scientific Poster Design
Scientific Paper Types Evidence-Based Medicine
This session presents the fundamental concepts of information literacy, evaluation, and eligibility of information and resources. The practical part focuses on searching in databases using Boolean operators and search filtrations to determine the relevance and credibility of information sources.
This session introduces the principles of academic integrity and types of plagiarism, providing guidance on how to avoid it and consider the ethics by focusing on student responsibilities in maintaining academic standards.
This session provides the fundamentals of using generative AI, such as prompt techniques, personalizing the AI tools, implementing tools in an academic environment, determining the right tool, and using checklist criteria to evaluate AI generative output to avoid AI challenges by considering the ethical use.
This session presents the main fundamentals of the scientific research process. Also, focusing on how science people think by identifying each stage of the research methodology.
This session explores the main outline of scientific paper elements and explores each section of how it functions in the research process.
This session provides all the principles of creating scientific posters, how to organize research content Visually, communicate key findings clearly and implement design elements that enhance readability and match the design principles.
This session presents the types of scientific papers by introducing the hierarchy of evidence. The Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) triangle, with clarification of each type and usage.