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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| The Evidence Pyramid Problem | October 24, 2024 | In this webinar, the authors of the latest article in this series will join us to discuss the evidence pyramid. They will provide an overview of how the traditional evidence pyramid can mislead students and clinicians, and propose a different method to determine evidence strength and applicability – the evidence funnel. Join us for an engaging session that will feature a live discussion, with ample opportunity for questions and dialogue.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Making Sense of Numbers (November 6, 2024) | November 6, 2024 | This 1.5 hour webinar explains how to interpret statistics and numbers.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities | November 14, 2024 | This webinar is part of the Rural Health Forum. 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 |
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Finding and Using Health Statistics | On-demand through March 1, 2025 | This online, self-paced course for librarians and students in health sciences describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Getting the Right Information to Patients Using MedlinePlus Connect | On-demand through April 13, 2025 | This 1 hour on-demand class introduces MedlinePlus Connect, and points to resources for implementing MedlinePlus Connect at your institution. MedlinePlus Connect is a tool that enables the integration of MedlinePlus resources into external systems like electronic health record systems, patient portals, and other applications. Working knowledge of MedlinePlus is suggested pre-requisite.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Health Literacy On Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Learn about health literacy definitions, best practices, tools for communicating health information clearly, and resources for improving health literacy. This on-demand narrated tutorial takes about an hour to complete. It offers CHES, CNE, and MLA credit.
Platform/Location: Moodle |