摘要：A FEW reports of a new method of providing medical information needed for patient care, namely by use of "clinical librarians," had appeared in the literature before the summer of 1974; but the experimental program at the Washington University School of Medicine Library did not start before then and in some respects did not follow the generally accepted methods of other libraries. The program began when the chief resident of one service in the medical school hospital indicated he wished to enhance the quality of the education of his interns and residents by making them aware of the potentialities of medical literature for patient care. The program differed in methodology from most other similar programs because the clinical librarians did not go on rounds with the physician and his team, but instead sat in on residents' reports, from which the librarians gleaned the problems for which a search of the literature might be appropriate.
