From an original by Beth Whitney

CE Opportunities

Cost for NAHSL members:
1 half-day class $60
2 half-day or 1 full-day class - $120

Cost for Non-members
1 half-day class $100
2 half-day or 1 full-day class - $180

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Sunday, October 3
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Project Management Essentials - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The purpose of this course is to improve students’ project management skills or to introduce the discipline to future project management candidates or participants in projects. MLA CEUs: 8 credits pending

Instructor:
John Lombardo has 25 years of IT-related project experience as both a participant and project leader. Projects include infrastructure replacement projects, Y2K compliance, and implementation of new technology for the enterprise. He holds American Management Association Project Management certification.

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Concepts in Neurology - 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
A follow-up to last year’s “Concepts in Renal Medicine,” this course is intended for health science librarians who wish to learn more about medicine to increase their effectiveness in providing information services to clinical staff. MLA CEUs: 4 credits pending

Instructors:
Linda Quirici, RN, MSN, CCRN is currently the Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist at Eastern Connecticut Health Network. She has 23 years of nursing experience and spent 10 years on the nursing faculty at Baystate Medical Center and the University of Connecticut.

Diana J. Norris, APRN is a nurse practitioner with the ECHN hospitalist program.

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Beyond Marketing: Consultative Selling for Information Professionals - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
For long term success, the Information Center must be visible and must be considered vital to the organization. Marketing is part of a multi-pronged approach to insure those goals are met. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the essential things you need to prepare and deliver a successful marketing initiative. This workshop will cover: basics of consultative selling strategies; case studies; creating your elevator talk; group exercises and interactive learning. MLA CEUs: 4 credits pending

Instructor:
Anne Caputo is Director of Knowledge and Learning Programs, Factiva, Dow Jones & Reuters

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PDAs and the Medical Librarian - 1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
Through demonstration, lecture and discussion you will learn methods of integrating the new PDA technology into your personal and professional life as a medical librarian. You will also hear methods of starting or expanding a PDA program in your library, including providing classes, organizing a users’ group, and recommending resources. Both the Palm and the Windows operating systems will be discussed and demonstrated. Specific software and hardware useful to healthcare providers and examples of wireless connectivity will be shown. Finally, the use of PDA technology for library applications such as data collection of bar code reading will be discussed. MLA CEUs: 4 credits pending

Instructor:
Evelyn Breck Morgen, MSLS, is an Instructor, School of Medicine, and Associate Director, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut Health Center - Farmington.

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Medical Librarian - 1:00p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This course will be an introduction to the basic concepts of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for health sciences librarians. Through the demonstration of a variety of search tools, the class will focus upon finding good evidence in the medical literature. Participants will learn to review findings, place in perspective various search results, judge the validity of Evidence-Based studies and discover the role that the librarian can play in providing EBM training and support to those in their respective institutions. Additional content will be presented to help the librarian interpret data from the studies through a basic primer in medical statistics. This course utilizes course material, independent readings, reviews, and exercises. An interactive component will allow the audience to ask medical questions with live searching and interpretation. MLA CEUs: 4 credits pending.

Instructors:
Frank Domino, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he is the Family Medicine Clerkship Director. Dr. Domino is an Associate Editor for Family Medicine to the UptoDate clinical database. In addition to EBM, his interests include medical ethics and medical informatics.

Len Levin, MS, LIS, MA, AHIP is the Manager of Educational Programming at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. He also served as Health Sciences Librarian at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston from 1996-2003. He is currently serving as 2003-2004 chair of NAHSL.

Jim Comes, EdD is the Associate Director for Reference, Education and Research Services at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Jim came to Worcester from Ball State University where he served as Health Science Librarian. He has been involved with the third-year clerkship program to introduce EBM to the medical students.

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Tuesday, October 5
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Caring for the Mind: Providing Reference Services for Mental Health Information, 2:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. Class offered at NO CHARGE.
Responding to mental health reference questions is challenging for even the most experienced librarian. In this course, you will learn how to provide effective reference services for mental health information. You will learn more about the experience of the library patron with mental illness. You will learn the best resources, including consumer health web sites, databases, and print resources to respond to mental health related questions. Locating easy-to-read materials and resources in other languages for mental health information will be covered. Handling the reference interview with emotional patrons will be explored. “Caring for the Mind” will teach you how to better serve patrons with mental illness needs. Location TBA. MLA CEUs: 3 credits pending

Instructor:
Michelle Eberle is the Consumer Health Information Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine / New England Region