Registration for Supporting Clinical Care: An Institute in Evidence-Based Practice for Medical Librarians is opening soon. We look forward to seeing you in Calgary this year!

Register here starting at Noon EST, Monday Feb. 25! http://libguides.ucalgary.ca/institute2013/registration

Enrollment is limited

Join your Medical Library Association (MLA) colleagues and register forOne Health,May 3–8, 2013, in Boston, MA!

Explore the global interdependency of health information at a federated international meeting, incorporating MLA '13, the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), and the 6th International Clinical Librarian Conference. Registernow and reserve your hotel reservation at the Sheraton Boston, the official conference headquarters hotel.  Non-MLA members who are members of an affiliated organization may register at discounted rates.  View the ‘Invitation to MLA’13’for an exciting video tour of what Boston has to offer annual meeting attendees!

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Join us for the IX Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS9)  and the VI Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library (VHL6)

Topic: eHealth: Getting closer to universal access to health

For those of you who might be near Michigan there is a continuing education opportunity coming soon:

http://www.mdmlg.org/MHSLA2012/index.htm

Friday, May 27, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

How to Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice: a workshop for librarians because articles do not “fall from heaven” and expert searchers are made not born 

Friday, May 27, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Friday, May 27, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Friday May 27, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

This half-day course is designed for medical librarians who want to learn evidence-based concepts in order to comfortably support and teach evidence-based clinical practice at their institution. Through large and small group discussion and hands-on, case-based learning, you'll learn the skills to critically appraise therapy studies. Instructor Jeff Mason is a hospital librarian who has taught evidence-based clinical practice at McMaster University's and Dartmouth College's well-known courses.

Thursday, May 26, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Single-session workshops are the predominant format for library instruction. As librarians, we’re always looking for ways to make these sessions more hands-on and engaging. This session will teach you to use instructional design principles to plan a short workshop. Participants will learn to identify goals for the session, organize learning activities, and evaluate your sessions. Instructors Patti Dyjur and Patrick Kelly are instructional designers with the University of Calgary.

Thursday, May 26, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Increasingly, health librarians are being asked to locate statistics. Often, all that’s available is raw data that hasn’t been turned into useful statistical figures. Don’t despair – you don’t need a magic wand to transform data into statistics! Join Peter Peller, University of Calgary’s data librarian, as he explains how to use the wizardry of open-source statistical software to extract data from the Canadian Community Health Survey and turn it into statistics your clients can use.

We have great Continuing Education sessions lined up for this year's CHLA/ABSC conference in Calgary, including a full day workshop held at the Banff Centre and developed especially for CHLA/ABSC by the Banff Centre. The workshop fee includes transportation to and from the Banff Centre.

I am pleased to announce that accreditation applications are now being accepted for courses that are two hours in length, down from the previous minimum of three hours. Anyone considering hosting a CE session/workshop for two hours or more is encouraged to apply for CE accreditation. Why? Because it ensures high quality and credibility of the course, and might even increase attendance!

 

I am pleased to announce that CHLA/ABSC has recently accredited a new CE course:

"Supporting Evidence-Based Clinical Practice: Appraising Therapy Studies"

This half-day course is designed for medical librarians who want to learn evidence-based concepts in order to comfortably support and teach evidence-based clinical practice at their institution. Through large and small group discussion, and hands-on, case-based learning, you'll learn the skill you need to critically appraise therapy studies. 

Instructor: Jeff Mason

3.75 Contact Hours

REGISTRATION OPENS MONDAY, MARCH 29, 12 NOON EDT!



Supporting Clinical Care: An Institute in Evidence-Based Practice for
Medical Librarians <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/institute2010/>

When: Monday, August 2rd, 5:00pm - Thursday, August 5th, 5:00pm

Where:  Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Oral histories are a unique way of sharing the knowledge, experience, and motivation of individuals.  They convey the life and times of those who have contributed to the history of librarianship, medicine, science, and even our personal family histories.  
 

At the CHLA/ABSC conference in Kingston, Ontario this year, we have a great selection of continuing education (CE) sessions, including both unique and classic topics.

Come improve your skills in navigating copyright issues, teaching, using and finding patents, gov info & stats, searching pubmed, polishing your professional image, fundraising, searching and peer reviewing searches to support systematic reviewing, and patient safety.

The Canadian Health Libraries Association/ Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada in collaboration with the University of Toronto and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics is pleased to announce:  Bioinformatics for Health Librarians

This Continuing Education Roster lists CHLA/ABSC accredited courses that chapter and conference organizers can draw from during Continuing Education Workshop planning. The roster will be updated as new courses are developed and accredited. If you have attended or have given a workshop, course or information session that you think your colleagues would benefit from, please let us know by sending an e-mail to: ce@chla-absc.ca and put CE Roster in the subject field.