Table 2.

The educational goals for clinical informationist according to literature

Area	Needs (references)
Cognitive	CI must be knowledgeable in related clinical fields[1,14]
	CI must have basic scientific knowledge[7]
	CI must have an understanding regarding research evidence[7]
	CI must have sufficient knowledge for using clinical and biomedical information databases[7]
Emotional	CI must have sufficient self-esteem[3,15]
	CI must feel like part of a uniform team[3]
	CI must feel accepted by the clinical team[3]
	CI must be interested in helping others[3]
	CI must feel that his presence is making a valuable difference in the team[3] CI must have positive communication with healthcare providers[3]
	CI must be able to have positive communications with patients’ families[3]
	CI must resist negative behavior shown by others[3]
	CI must be resistant against occurrences such as patients’ deaths and emergency conditions[3]
	CI must have sufficient motivation for working in a clinical environment[16]
	CI must be willing to answer clinical questions[17]
	CI must be interested in clinical and specialized topics[17]
Psychomotor	CI must have the ability to use information technologies and systems[18]
	CI must be able to search, retrieve and extract information from information sources and articles through an advanced filtration process[7]

CI=Clinical informationist