Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
The Library System of Lancaster County PA will be hosting two consumer health classes on September 27& 28, 2010. The classes are sponsored by the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. They will be taught by Helen Tannenbaum, MAR’s Outreach and Communications Coordinator.
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Technology Coordinator Gregg Headrick, from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region (NN/LM MAR), continues to keep this four-credit continuing education class up-to-date. He presented the latest iteration to Chapter members on August 12, 2010 at the Simmy and Harry Ginsburg Health Sciences Library at Temple University’s health sciences campus on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. Read more» » »
Medical Library Association Need an MLA CE credit or a few points for the Academy of Health Information Professionals? Try the Independent Reading Program and get credit for reading articles from the Journal of the Medical Library Association: http://www.mlanet.org/education/irp/articles.html
Save the Date!
Thursday, August 12th
Join your colleagues to celebrate the recent opening of Temple University’s Ginsburg Library, a brand new health sciences library in an architecturally stunning space. Come for the morning CE class, “Geeks Bearing Gifts”. In tech time it’s been ages since Gregg last taught this for our chapter so if you attended in November 2008 it’s time for an update! Both events are FREE to members; the reception is $10 for non-members.
Stay tuned for online registration.
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7.5 MLA continuing education units
Class Description
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This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers.
Agenda
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction to NLM and PubMed®
9:00 – 9:15 What’s in PubMed®
9:15 – 10:15 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Building the Search (part I)
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Building the Search (part II)
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:15 Managing the Results
3:15 – 3:30 Saving the Search
3:30 – 3:45 Viewing the Articles
3:45 – 4:15 Additional Tools
4:15 – 4:45 Review Exercises
4:45 – 5:00 Closing
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