To participate in medical teams and fulfill their duties effectively, CIs require medical knowledge, familiarity with medical jargon and clinical environment, and organizational policies. Today, CIs, as capable and adept individuals, act as a liaison between information sources and medical and clinical professionals, and they have active roles in evidence-based medicine. CIs are members of clinical care teams, whose primary responsibility is to fill the gap in the information needs of health-care workers and patients via information sources.

Thus, the results of this study can be the basis for future studies regarding the competencies of CI in order to provide a more precise and detailed curriculum based on these educational needs.Ĭlinical informationist (CI) is one of the current trends in the field of medical Librarianship and Information Science. Although part of these educational needs can be met through general medical librarianship and information science education, further specialized education for CIs requires specific aims and curriculum. Furthermore, the educational needs were identified in eight educational needs including research method and statistics, education, medical knowledge, information and librarianship science, clinical environment knowledge, evidence-based knowledge, information technologies and systems, management, and leadership. The review resulted in identifying 18 goals in cognitive, emotional, and psychomotor areas. A total of 1026 studies were extracted, and 38 studies were selected for the final review. The Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries was hand searched for relevant studies. The ISI Web of Science, Scopus, Proquest (MEDLINE), Science Direct, Emerald, ERIC, Cochrane, and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts were searched. To this end, a scoping review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines. This study aims to identify the educational goals and needs of CIs. They need an official and standard education. CIs are members of clinical care teams, and their main duty is to fill the gap in the information needs of health-care workers and patients using information sources. Clinical informationist (CI) is one of the current trends in the field of medical librarianship and information science.

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