Health Sciences Interest Group

Hi,

My library (at a medical college) has been asked to develop a CE workshop proposal taught by the librarians and one clinician. We were thinking of doing a workshop focusing on medical literature review, research data sets and publications, and basic medical data analysis (this part would be taught by the clinician).

I am curious: what CE workshops do YOU offer? How hard was it to develop the workshop, and how successful have your workshops been?

Thanks in advance,
Meghan Di Rito Wegendt
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM Georgia
she/her/hers
meghandi@pcom.edu

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Meghan Di Rito
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM
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Hi Meghan

I teach two different sessions for first year medical students at my institution: one 15-minute introduction to EBM resources in the fall and one, 60-minute session in the spring, as well as  one for the students in the masters degree program. I focus the sessions on searching and evaluating the biomedical literature.  I also cover types of evidence that are part of evidence-based medicine and locating free datasets for research. In addition, I also go over question frameworks with the medical students to demonstrate that different questions are suited for different types of reviews. 

My advice is to evaluate who your audience is and how much time you have when planning for these sessions. If you have the opportunity to do multiple sessions, you can break up the content into chunks such as question frameworks and search strategies.

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Deborah Farber
Health Sciences Librarian
California University of Science and Medicine
She/Her/Hers
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 12, 2023 01:21 PM
From: Meghan Di Rito
Subject: What CE classes are you teaching?

Hi,

My library (at a medical college) has been asked to develop a CE workshop proposal taught by the librarians and one clinician. We were thinking of doing a workshop focusing on medical literature review, research data sets and publications, and basic medical data analysis (this part would be taught by the clinician).

I am curious: what CE workshops do YOU offer? How hard was it to develop the workshop, and how successful have your workshops been?

Thanks in advance,
Meghan Di Rito Wegendt
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM Georgia
she/her/hers
meghandi@pcom.edu

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Meghan Di Rito
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM
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Hi Deborah,

Thanks for your response and advice! I appreciate it!

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Meghan Di Rito
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 13, 2023 12:44 PM
From: Deborah Farber
Subject: What CE classes are you teaching?

Hi Meghan

I teach two different sessions for first year medical students at my institution: one 15-minute introduction to EBM resources in the fall and one, 60-minute session in the spring, as well as  one for the students in the masters degree program. I focus the sessions on searching and evaluating the biomedical literature.  I also cover types of evidence that are part of evidence-based medicine and locating free datasets for research. In addition, I also go over question frameworks with the medical students to demonstrate that different questions are suited for different types of reviews.

My advice is to evaluate who your audience is and how much time you have when planning for these sessions. If you have the opportunity to do multiple sessions, you can break up the content into chunks such as question frameworks and search strategies.

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Deborah Farber
Health Sciences Librarian
California University of Science and Medicine
She/Her/Hers

Original Message:
Sent: Jan 12, 2023 01:21 PM
From: Meghan Di Rito
Subject: What CE classes are you teaching?

Hi,

My library (at a medical college) has been asked to develop a CE workshop proposal taught by the librarians and one clinician. We were thinking of doing a workshop focusing on medical literature review, research data sets and publications, and basic medical data analysis (this part would be taught by the clinician).

I am curious: what CE workshops do YOU offer? How hard was it to develop the workshop, and how successful have your workshops been?

Thanks in advance,
Meghan Di Rito Wegendt
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM Georgia
she/her/hers
meghandi@pcom.edu

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Meghan Di Rito
Education and Outreach Librarian
PCOM
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