Margaret A. Hoogland
Margaret A. Hoogland is the Clinical Medical Librarian at the University of Toledo. She team teaches both undergraduate and medical student courses and collaborates with the Office of Medical Student Research to offer workshops and office hours to assist medical students as they begin a research project, write-up results, and submit manuscripts for publication. Her research areas of interest include educational technology, wellness, and professional development.
Session
Introduction: During Fall 2025 sessions with first-year medical students, the Clinical Medical Librarian (CML) started discussing ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used to enhance search strategies, more quickly retrieve instruction to author information for journals, and so forth. CML recognized that sharing articles about proper ways to use and cite AI is one step – but it is not sufficient to address faculty, staff, and learners’ interest in and exploration of AI.
Description: By developing closed system chat bot agents, CML can improve accessibility of existing information on Scholarly Activities, Journal Metrics, and provide some basic definitions for commonly asked questions by faculty and learners about selecting journals, critical appraisal, predatory journals, and indexing. The Chat Bot Agents will include a way for users to get assistance, if they are in a crisis.
Outcomes: CML will provide a structure so that a patron’s prompt will retrieve information from existing sources curated by CML. The Chat Bot Agents will give patrons, who are interested in AI, an opportunity to more easily access the information, while also practicing and improving how they write prompts.
Discussion: By developing and maintaining these closed system Chat Bot Agents, CML demonstrates the importance of creating a good research question (or prompt) before embarking on a research project.