November 2015 - College of Public Health alumnus takes first place for paper on rural clinicians

A College of Public Health alumnus has won a first-place research award for a paper he recently presented.  

Dr. Rick Wallace, assistant director of ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine Library and a graduate of the College of Public Health Master in Public Health program, earned the top honor from the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SCMLA) for his paper, “An Assessment of Information Interventions with Isolated Rural Clinicians.”

The objective of the paper is to analyze the information practices of rural Northeast Tennessee clinicians. The theme goes nicely, Wallace noted, with the ETSU medical library’s “strong interest in helping rural clinicians access library resources.”

The paper was co-authored by two additional ETSU staff members – Nakia Woodward, senior clinical reference librarian at the medical school library, and Elizabeth Wallace, a library assistant at the facility.

Papers were evaluated on originality, innovation, organization and clarity of presentation as well as to the theme of the SCMLA’s annual meeting, “Community, Collaboration and Care.”