This course text outlines the objectives and content for a professional continuing education course on clinical medical librarianship. Following an introduction to the course, the history of clinical librarianship and several programs are described. The third section offers guidelines for setting goals and objectives for a clinical librarian program. Procedures for presenting a program for administrative approval are examined in the next section, and choosing a department for initial implementation is discussed in section 5. The sixth section covers the development of policies and procedures, including a list of specific items to considered in documenting procedures. A checklist of areas of potential difficulties is presented in the seventh section. The text concludes with a summary of evaluation methods, including references to five published reports of clinical librarian program evaluations. A 26-item bibliography is included. (MES)