Handouts to Support Training

PubMed and Resources for Health Professionals

• PubMed Basics (Trifold)  (External Link)
• My NCBI (Trifold)  (External Link)
• Full Text and PubMed (Trifold)  (External Link)
• Searching PubMed with MeSH  (External Link)
• MedlinePlus for Health Professionals (Clinicians)  (External Link)
• LactMed Basics  (External Link)
• Mapping a Path to Environmental Health Data  (External Link)
• TOXMAP Brochure  (External Link)
• PubMed Search Tags & Field Qualifiers Guide. This guide is intended to be customized with your library's logo and contact information, folded in half, and laminated.   

Consumer Focused Resources

• MedlinePlus Trifold (English)  (External Link)
• MedlinePlus Trifold (Spanish)  (External Link)
• Text of MedlinePlus Public Service Annoucements (Prepared by NN/LM New England Region)
  MedlinePlus Public Service Annoucement
  MedlinePlus Public Service Annoucement with Go Local Information
• MLA Health Information Literacy Program: A Brochure for Librarians  (External Link)
• LactMed Basics  (External Link)
• Resources for Science Teachers  (External Link)
• ToxMystery Brochure  (External Link)
• NIH SeniorHealth Trifold
• Minority Health Resources  (External Link)
• African American Resources  (External Link)
• Asian American Resources  (External Link)
• Latino American Resources  (External Link)
• Native American Resources  (External Link)
• Lesson Plans from the National Library of Medicine  (External Link)

Additional Topics

• Gateway Basics (Trifold)  (External Link)
• Geeks Web Resources handout ( 84kb)
• New England Region Geeks PPT Presentation - Part 1 ( 1230kb)
• New England Region Geeks PPT Presentation - Part 2 ( 1103kb)
  

NLM Factsheets  (External Links)

• NN/LM Program
• PubMed
• Loansome Doc
• National Library of Medicine
• MEDLINE
• NLM Gateway
• Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
• What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?
• Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)
• NLM Fact Sheets (complete listing) (External Link)

Presentations and Resources You Can Adapt

• NLM Consumer Health Update - Feb 2010
• Going Green with the NLM: Environmental Health and Toxicology Information (version 2)   
• Going Green Class Exercises -Central MA AHEC Outreach Worker Training Institute
• Toxnet Overview   
• Finding Quality Online Information about Complementary and Alternative Medicine  
• Prescription for Success: Consumer Health Information on the Internet   
• An Ounce of Prevention: Children's Health Information on the Internet   
• The Savvy Senior Health Information Searcher   
• Grant and Proposal Writing   
• The Healthy Librarian: Cultivating Wellness in the Workplace   
• Spring to Health Guide: Workplace Wellness Series
• Going Green with the National Library of Medicine: Environmental Health and Toxicology Information (version 1)   
• Going Green with the NLM Handout

Need more information?

For more information about NN/LM NER's educational programming, please contact Outreach and Education Coordinator, Lauri Kolakoski Fennell at or Consumer Health Information Coordinator, Michelle Eberle.