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Scheduled Classes
Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
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NNLM Book Discussion, Feb 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2024: The History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship by Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld | February 1, 2024 - April 30, 2024 | Join us February 1, 2024 - April 30, 2024 to discuss The History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship by Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.
Platform/Location: Zoom, Moodle |
Wikipedia + Libraries: NNLM (March 25-April 19, 2024) | March 25, 2024 - April 19, 2024 | Gain insight into the value of Wikipedia as a viable reference and build the skills and knowledge needed to evaluate articles, with a specific focus on health and medical topics in a self-paced, online class over four weeks. Expect to spend about 2 hours a week exploring through discussion forums, readings, tutorials, and learn about the #CiteNLM Wikipedia edit-a-thon and the free resources, programming and training that NNLM offers to libraries. This class addresses increasing health information access and use, and the NNLM initiatives of confronting health misinformation and citizen science by engaging communities in editing Wikipedia health-related articles with well-sourced additions, and gaining insight into the value of Wikipedia as a viable reference tool for health and medical topics.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Citizen Science Empowers Environmental Understanding through Libraries, Community-Based Organizations, and More | April 2, 2024 | Join SciStarter.org to discuss positive impacts of citizen science on environmental health. This webinar fits within the mission of NNLM to provide awareness of and access to health information resources and data. This webinar intends to accelerate discovery and advance health by providing tools for data-driven research and reach more people in more ways through enhanced dissemination and engagement pathways. This class is for educational and informational purposes in alignment with NNLM goals and does not offer medical advice.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Providing Mental Health Resources at Your Library | April 9, 2024 | Responding to questions involving topics on mental health is challenging even for the most experienced librarian. In this 1-hour webinar, participants will learn how to effectively respond to requests for mental health information at their libraries.
Platform/Location: Webex |
How Community Health Workers fit in Team Base Care | April 10, 2024 | Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been around for many decades. CHWs are vital to our healthcare and are essential in helping communities have better health outcomes. This webinar will explore how to best utilize CHWs in your organization.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health | April 10, 2024 | Learn the basics of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and essential steps of the EBPH process through the lens of NLM and other resources in this one- hour webinar.
Platform/Location: Webex |
Life After 2 Losses: Support Advocacy and Health Literacy for a Healthy Pregnancy | April 17, 2024 | This live event highlights programming from Life After 2 Losses, a non-profit organization with the mission to prevent reproductive & health injustices through the support and empowerment of women & families in the community. The organization received a grant from the Region 1 Medical Library to continue their mission of 1) changing the narrative surrounding pregnancy loss 2) education and raising awareness 3) advocacy efforts and 4) grief support.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Regional Events
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On-Demand Classes
Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
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AHEM: clearing the way to easy-to-read health materials | On-demand through April 25, 2025 | Get an overview on assessing health education materials, and learn how the National Library of Medicine uses a health education materials assessment tool to figure out if health education materials are easy-to-read in this 2 hour on-demand, online class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Consumer Health Collection Management - On Demand | On-demand through October 31, 2024 | This 4 credit-hour, on-demand class reviews collection management principles and resources for health-related collections in public libraries.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Consumer Health Information Specialization On Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Discover the basics of providing consumer health information through 5 independent learning modules. Earn up to 5 hours credit towards a Consumer Health Information Specialization. This presentation addresses the NNLM goals to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data, improve health literacy, increase health equity through information, and increase health information access and use by including information about the NLM/NIH resources MedlinePlus, PubMed ClnicalTrials, DailyMed and PubChem, and foundational concepts about health literacy and providing consumer health information to communities.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Drug and Chemical Information 1. Using, Providing and Prescribing Medications | On-demand through May 1, 2025 | Learn how to find drug and chemical safety information, side effects, and interactions in MedlinePlus and locate prescription and over-the-counter FDA drug labeling in DailyMed in this 2 hour on-demand class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Drug and Chemical Information 2. Finding Properties, Effects, and Interactions | On-demand through May 1, 2025 | Learn how to find drug and chemical information, adverse effects, molecular properties and more in this 2 hour on-demand class. Resources covered include PubChem, LactMed, LiverTox, NLM Bookshelf and PubMed.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Drug and Chemical Information 3. Exploring New Drug Research | On-demand through May 1, 2025 | Discover drug therapy clinical trials and learn how drugs, chemicals, and related topics are indexed in MeSH in order to hone a PubMed search strategy for systematic reviews and other complex research in this 2 hour on-demand class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Environmental Health and Justice: a brief primer | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Learn about three resources you can use to find data and statistics about environmental health disparities in your community. This on-demand training takes approximately one hour to complete and offers CHES, CPH, and MLA credit.
Platform/Location: Moodle |