Becoming a Medical Librarian: A Story from Region 5

NNLM Discovery

In this episode of NNLM Discovery, we follow the educational journey of someone who aspires to become a medical librarian, Kristi Torp, who has worked for multiple NNLM Regions and is currently part of the NLM Associate Fellowship program.
The NLM and NNLM offer many opportunities for aspiring librarians. If you or someone you know is thinking about librarianship, share this episode with them! And please remember to reach out to your NLM office to learn more about the resources they may have to help you.
The NNLM is the outreach arm of the National Library of Medicine with the mission to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The seven Health Sciences Libraries function as the Regional Medical Library (RML) for their respective region.
To learn more about Region 5 visit: https://www.nnlm.gov/about/regions/region5
All of the artwork for this podcast series has been created with a generative AI text-to-image tool! The text prompt for the episode's artwork was “silhouetted diverse medical librarians working on computers helping doctors.”

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