the Informationist (there Information Specialist in Context) provides research is  knowledge management services in the context of clinical care or biomedical research. Although there  no one educational pathway or formalized set of a skills or knowledge for informationists, one way to think of the informationist is as one who possesses the knowledge and skill of  medical librarian with extensive research specialization a some formal clinical or public health education that goes beyond on-the-job osmosis.