Clinical Support Services

The NYU Health Sciences Library supports clinical care by providing healthcare professionals with expert guidance, evidence-based resources, and training to enhance decision-making at the point of care.

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About Us

We support the clinical community with the goal of improving and promoting the use of biomedical and health information in clinical contexts throughout the NYU Langone Health System.

Clinical Rounding Support: Librarians join clinical teams on rounds to provide real-time evidence and information.

Evidence-Based Practice Assistance: Help locating and appraising the best available evidence for patient care.

Quality Improvement Projects: Support for data gathering, literature reviews, and outcome measurement.

Customized Training: Tailored instruction for departments, teams, or individuals on topics including evidence-based medicine, database searching, and research skills.

What We Offer

Connect with a librarian to get help with:

Optimizing discovery at the point of care
Expert support in evidence gathering
Creating topical specialty guides
Custom training for individuals or teams

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Specialty Guides for Clinicians

Guides are curated by HSL librarians and include a collection of books, journals and databases for reference

AI in Healthcare

Explore generative AI at NYU Langone Health. Use NYU AI Studio (HIPAA compliant) or copilot.microsoft.com (not HIPAA compliant). Follow legal guidelines and share prompts.

Nursing

Supporting clinical decision-making, research, and professional development for practicing nurses, nurse educators, nurse practitioners, nursing administrators, and students.

House Staff Guide to Library Resources/GME

This guide helps NYU Langone House Staff, Residency Directors, and GME Administrators meet ACGME Practice-based Learning and Improvement goals 6, 7, and 8.

Health Literacy & Patient Education

This guide is for health professionals interested in health literacy and patient education. It offers links to books, journals, and other quality sources.

Evidence Based Medicine

Includes self-directed learning content adapted from UME Foundational Clinical Skills classes.

Guidelines & Reviews

This guide is to help clinicians and health care professionals locate timely and relevant clinical guidelines that synthesize the best evidence on particular medical topics.

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Upcoming Classes & Events

Education Introduction to Literature Searching Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00pm - 01:00pm WebEx Need to get started with a literature search? This class will touch on the basics of formulating good strategies for literature searches. We will review techniques for preliminary information discovery and developing structured search strategies using proper syntax and techniques to conduct searches, apply search filters, save results, and access full text articles through the NYU Health Sciences Library. Register here: https://nyumc.webex.com/weblink/register/r19b4b9f341698af2698b06b226663bed This class is open to everyone but would be especially useful for students, research assistants, and interns who will be performing literature searches as part of a team project. If you would like to register multiple attendees, please contact caitlin.plovnick@nyulangone.org.

Data R Coding and Generative AI for EHR Data Analysis: Part I - Intro to R Thursday, December 04, 2025 12:00pm - 01:30pm WebEx This workshop will provide introductory level instruction in using R, an open-source and free coding language for statistical analysis, with a focus on analysis of EHR data and use of generative AI to expedite coding. Participants in this workshop will learn to: Produce R syntax for analysis Identify key data types and structures in R Craft AI prompts effectively for helping write code Register here: https://nyumc.webex.com/webappng/sites/nyumc/webinar/webinarSeries/register/cc99cc64e86a4aadbda6607c60118884

Data R Coding and Generative AI for EHR Data Analysis: Part II - Data Wrangling with R Thursday, December 11, 2025 12:00pm - 01:30pm WebEx In Part II of our series on R, Generative AI and EHR data, we will take a deeper dive into R and RStudio, with a focus on data cleaning, making subsets and making tables of data suitable for statistical analysis in R. Participants will be able to: Identify common functions and packages needed for filtering EHR data Merge data into a format suitable for basic statistical modeling and hypothesis tests Create data visualizations Expedite coding with generative AI tools Please Register Here: https://nyumc.webex.com/webappng/sites/nyumc/webinar/webinarSeries/register/cc99cc64e86a4aadbda6607c60118884

About

Clinical Support Services

About Us

What We Offer

Specialty Guides for Clinicians

Upcoming Classes & Events

Library Faculty for Clinical Support

Shayla Shorter, PhD

Kathleen Fox

Rich McGowan

Lita Anglin