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Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals
This is a joint project amongst several agencies to provide public health professionals with timely, convenient access to information resources. See Comment field for list of agencies.

Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines
This interactive seminar focuses on ways both public and medical librarians can become more involved in patient safety processes and activities - both within their institutions and organizations and in providing patient safety resources for health professionals, for administration and staff, and for patients and families. Topics include understanding the definitions and issues of patient safety; locating where patient safety practices and contacts exist within an institution; identifying appropriate resources; and library advocacy in the area of patient safety. These four hours of lecture, discussion and brainstorming help librarians in all fields become effective agents for improving patient safety.

PDA Initiative
This site contains information and recommendations on the various PDAs' available . The site has information on the software available for the various models, training sessions (http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/orgs/pda/basicuse.htm), and other useful links.

Prescription for Success: Consumer Health Information on the Internet
This hands-on introductory class to consumer health information will cover the information-seeking behaviors of consumers, the basics of MedlinePlus.gov, DIRLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov and other reliable web pages such as those from professional medical associations and advocacy groups. It will cover sites devoted to pharmaceutical information for consumers, drug-interaction databases and herbal information.

Public Health Information and Data Tutorial
Online tutorial with content based on the "Public Health Information and Data Training Manual." Four modules cover staying informed about news in public health, health education resources, public health statistics and data sets, and supporting decisions with the best evidence.

Public Health on the Web
The field of public health encompasses a wide array of disciplines including health education, epidemiology and nursing. Digital literacy and the effective utilization of online information are among the core public health informatics competencies for the 21st century. This hands-on class will highlight web resources tailored to the public health workforce.

Publish Not Perish
A free online tutorial designed to introduce graduate students, junior faculty, and other potential authors to the mysterious world of scholarly publishing, from getting ideas and choosing a journal to submitting and revising a manuscript.

PubMed Basics Brochure
Covers basic features of NLM's PubMed. Available in PDF format that can be used to produce tri-fold brochure.

PubMed Expert Searching Class and Sample Manual
Expert searching includes more sophisticated use of PubMed tools such as field qualifiers, the preview/index feature, and creating links for a library web page. Greater knowledge of the Medline database and indexing vocabulary is also necessary in making expert search decisions. The class takes on a train the trainer focus to help participants translate these advanced searching techiniques to other users. The class builds upon the user's own knowledge of searching to use PubMed more effectively. (This is provided as a Microsoft Word document.)

PubMed for Experts
Designed as an advanced class for experienced MEDLINE searchers. This hands-on class will highlight advanced PubMed techniques that can be used to conduct comprehensive searches. Attendees are encouraged to contribute past and present difficult searches to discuss with the class.

PubMed Search Tags & Field Qualifiers Guide
This guide (in .doc Microsoft Word format) lists the major search tags and field qualifiers for advanced PubMed searching for easy reference. The guide is intended to be customized with your library's logo and contact information, folded in half and laminated. It also makes a nice one page handout. Or better yet... customize it and post it on your Web site.

PubMed Simple Subject Search Example
This one minute tutorial demonstrates how to perform a basic sinple MEDLINE search.

PubMed Tutorial National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Online interactive tutorial introducing users to the functions and search features of PubMed.

PubMed Tutorial - University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries
Online tutorial to help individuals understand and learn about the functions and search features of PubMed.