Development of academic information literacy evaluation system for medical postgraduate students based on Delphi method

Objective: To establish an academic information literacy evaluation index system for medical postgraduate students.Methods: The connotation of academic information literacy was analyed.Based on the Delphi method,we completed the indexes screening and correction by the 15 experts for the 3 round questionnaire consultation.Results: The academic information literacy evaluation index system for the medical postgraduate students included 3 first level indexes,9 second level indexes,and 41 third level indexes.The positive coefficient of experts in 3 rounds were 100%,the mean of importance evaluation of all indexes were more than 0.3,and the rank correlation coefficient of Kendall w test were 0.313,0.451,and 0.457 respectively(P<0.05).Conclusions: The academic information literacy evaluation system for medical postgraduate students proposed by this study was scientific and reasonable.