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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| When Your Community Is Your Hospital | November 13, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. This presentation will provide an overview of a partnership that connected organizations in the rural northern region of California with a bilingual health educator and delivered local trainings, both in English and Spanish, that allowed community health workers to learn among their peers about the health information resources from the National Library of Medicine and other resources in their communities.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Impact of Libraries and Informationists on Patient and Population Care | November 14, 2024 | Join informationists from the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan to hear about their mixed methods research on the impact of libraries and Informationists on patient and population care.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities | November 14, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series. Rural American adults have higher rates of chronic physical activity-related illness and are less active than their urban counterparts, with less than 20% meeting U.S. physical activity guidelines of 150-300 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Customizing Bioinformatics Support for Diverse Communities (November 15, 2024) | November 15, 2024 | Librarians from University of Florida, University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University discuss different ways they teach bioinformatics to their community. This 1 hour webinar is part of the Evolution of Bioinformatics Services in Libraries Speaker Series (Fall 2024).
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Creating Maawn Doobiigeng: Developing A New Classification System for a Tribal Library | November 15, 2024 | Existing organizational systems including Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress Classification are inherently damaging to Indigenous people and are insufficient for accurately describing and providing access to Native topics. From 2019 to 2024, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries worked with community members to create a new classification system, Maawn Doobiigeng (Gather Together). A member of the workgroup and the Tribal Librarian will share about the process of creating this new system, how it is being implemented, and how it is being used in the libraries, particularly in terms of health-related resources.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Palmetto Connect: Fostering Digital Inclusion in Rural South Carolina | November 19, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series that taking place in November. This session will cover a program designed to help close the digital divide for residents in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina by increasing internet access and affordability, training people in digital literacy, and connecting individuals to quality-of-life resources such as telehealth through digital inclusion.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Substance Use Disorder in Forcibly Displaced Populations | November 19, 2024 | This webinar will review current data on refugee mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) and present a relevant case. The aim is to exemplify the importance of understanding SUD in forcibly displaced persons and discuss its importance to public health practitioners.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Topic Searching in PubMed®: Using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) | On-demand through April 4, 2025 | Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced course.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice - On Demand | On-demand through June 13, 2025 | When conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This one-hour, online course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
Platform/Location: Moodle |