The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University in collaboration with the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) released a new edition of the knowledge path about oral health for infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Presented in time for Children’s Dental Health Month in February, this electronic guide points to resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at improving access to and the quality of oral health care. The knowledge path contains sections with resources for professionals, resources for consumers, and resources on specific aspects of oral health. Topics include child care and Head Start, dental sealants, early childhood caries, fluoride varnish, K-12 education, pregnancy, school-based care, school evaluation mandates, and special health care needs. The knowledge path is available at http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_oralhealth.html. Knowledge paths on other topics are available at http://mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/index.html.

Susan Brune Lorenzo, MLS
E-mail: smblorenzo@gmail.com
Maternal and Child Health Library
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University
Web site: http://mchlibrary.info

March 8-13, 2009, Portland, Oregon

All communities have unmet health needs. Sometimes it is hard to determine exactly what those needs are, and often it is hard to get programs funded.

Researchers can help quantify health needs, but there is frequently a disconnect between what the community wants and what the researcher wants. That’s where a partnership between research and communities can help.

The goal of this program is to provide community members with the tools to approach researchers, identify research questions, write grants and collaborate on projects that address cancer health disparities. This training seminar is open to tribal community members with an interest in improving cancer prevention, screening, and treatment in his or her community. Throughout the week, participants will become familiar with elements of writing a winning community-based grant. Seminar topics will cover the following grant-writing basics: where to locate funding sources, how to establish grant-writing goals and objectives, how to develop a budget, and more.

Successful applicants receive a scholarship covering travel, hotel, per diem meal allowance, and course materials.

Click here for a brochure with an application form and draft agenda.

Applications are due by February 6, 2009.

If you are unable to view the attached application, please contact Jessica Kennedy and she can get an application form to you. Ms. Kennedys e-mail address is blarjesj@ohsu.edu and her phone number is (503) 494-1126.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region is sponsoring a workshop on Knowledge Management to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 16-17. Participants of this workshop must attend as a team of two. The teams must include a hospital librarian and a professional from another department in the same institution. The goal of the workshop is for each team to explore the potential of knowledge management in the hospital setting, and to develop and implement a program in their institution.

In addition to the April 16-17, 2009 workshop, there will be required readings, two required online pre-workshop sessions and post-workshop communication sessions. These pre-workshop sessions will be held on March 9 and April 7 on Adobe Connect. The post-workshop sessions will be scheduled at a later date.

Cost of the workshop is $35: this includes one lunch and all break refreshments. This workshop is open to participants nationwide; however preference will be given to members of the MidContinental Region. The first 2 teams of MidContinental Region network members accepted for the workshop will have their travel expenses paid. Those 2 teams will be responsible to attend all sessions and either present their project within 18 months of the session or publish their work in a MidContinental Region publication.

For further information, and to apply to the workshop, go to http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/classes_knowledge_management.html.
Deadline for submission of applications is February 6, 2009.

Update 1/29/09

The NN/LM-New England Region’s online learning program on Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the Experts is full. We are pleased with the overwhelming enthusiasm for the program. Due to a large waiting list, the program will be recorded for later viewing. The NER plans to send the link for the recording directly to participants on the waiting list as well as post it on our Connecting with the NER site. Unfortunately, MLA CE units will not be awarded for viewing the recording of the program

Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the Experts

Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 2 – 3:30 PM

Engaging your community with health information outreach projects is rewarding, meaningful work. Come learn from the experiences of experts in health information outreach and community engagement. Each speaker has led a successful health information outreach subcontract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region. The program is intended for anyone interested in pursuing funding or learning more about how to engage the local community in effective health information outreach.

*Earn 1.5 Medical Library Association CE units

The Experts:

Beth Schneider, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Project: Access to Resources for Community Health (ARCH) / Head Start CAPIC Collaboration
Marianne Burke, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Project: Connecting Patients, Providers, and the Community with Quality Health Information Outreach
Anne Conner, Littleton Regional Hospital, Littleton, NH
Project: Northern New Hampshire Health Information Outreach

Participants will:

a) Learn about three successful health information outreach projects
b) Learn how to plan and implement a successful health information outreach project
c) Know about the process of applying for funding from the NN/LM
d) Be aware of the rewards and challenges of conducting a health information outreach project
e) Gain knowledge about project evaluation

Registration:
Registration is free and on a first come, first serve basis. Session will be limited to fifty participants.
To register, please contact Martha Pearson at martha.pearson@umassmed.edu.

In your email please include:
• Name
• Institution/address with zip code/phone/e-mail
• Name of the program (Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the Experts).

Details of how to access the teleconference and Adobe Connect session will be forwarded at registration.

1/12/09 - Update - This class is full.    Please contact Sheila Snow-Croft to be put on a waiting list.

Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use is now online!

Taught by Sheila Snow-Croft, the first session begins on the 16th of January and ends on the 23rd. It offers 4 MLA CE contact hours and is an online, asynchronous, instructor-led class using Moodle, a free service that does not require software downloads or installation.

For more information or to register for the class, please contact Sheila
Snow-Croft.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has produced brief training videos to demonstrate two of the four methods for submitting articles to PubMedCentral in compliance with the NIHPublic Access Policy.

See the Public Access Homepage for descriptions of each of the four methods. The new videos pertain to:

• Method C: submissions initiated by the author, and
• Method D: completing the process for submissions initiated by a publisher.

Resources:

The NIH Public Access Policy Website, http://publicaccess.nih.gov/, includes Frequently Asked Questions http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm and other information relevant to the Policy.

by Cindy Love, Disaster Information Management Research Center
Specialized Information Services Division, National Library of Medicine
cindy_love@nlm.nih.gov

REMM is now downloadable to your mobile device, with selected, key files from the full, online version of REMM.

• Blackberry
• Windows Mobile
• Palm

Read fulldetails on REMM at http://remm.nlm.gov/downloadmremm.htm

For immediate download to your Blackberry, click on this link from your Blackberry email and follow the directions.

http://remm.nlm.gov/mremm/blackberry/ota/mremm.jad

Please contact NLM with comments, questions or problems. nlmremm@mail.nih.gov

Six times a year, the SE/A will be hosting region wide web conferences that
include:

• Invited Speakers from the National Library of Medicine
• Updates on NN/LM members and resources

Our first conference will feature a presentation by Dr. Stuart Nelson. Dr. Nelson is Head of Medical Subject Headings Section at the National Library of Medicine. Stuart J. Nelson, MD, was born and raised in California. His undergraduate education was at the University of California at Berkeley. He took a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in 1970, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, to attend medical school at the State University of New York.

After obtaining the MD degree, he interned at Philadelphia General Hospital on the University of Pennsylvania’s medical service, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1978. From 1978 to 1991, he served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1991 he moved to the Medical College of Georgia.

His research interests are in the area of computer applications to medicine, and he collaborated for several years with Dr. Marsden S. Blois, one of the founders of the field of Medical Informatics. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

In 1996 he came to the National Library of Medicine as the Head of the Medical Subject Headings Section. He has published extensively in the field of medical informatics, especially in the area of computerized vocabularies.

Presentation: All About MeSH, 2008-2009

Date: Wednesday, November 19th

Time: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 pm

Attending the web conference is easy!

No reservation or registration needed

Open to all SE/A libraries

What do you need to join these conferences?

A computer (with Flash installed)

A telephone

How do I connect?

Go to this URL: http://webmeeting.nih.gov/beyondthesea

Enter as a Guest

Sign in with your first and last name

Follow the instructions in the meeting room to have Adobe Connect call your phone or call 1-800-605-5167 and enter the participant code 227471 when prompted.

Check out the web conference page at the SE/A website for more information and dates:

http://nnlm.gov/sea/services/webconf/

If you have any questions, please call the SE/A office at 800-338-7657 or 410-706-2855 or chat with us via Instant Messaging at: http://nnlm.gov/sea/outreach/seachat/

The Southeastern Atlantic and Greater Midwest regions of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine are now accepting registrants for the online version of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends.”

Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends Online is intended to provide an introduction to and update on today’s hottest technology trends with an emphasis on social media and collaboration. Participants will be able to identify technology trends and understand how these trends will affect or can be integrated into traditional library services. Some of the topics to be covered include RSS, spyware, developments in mobile computing, blogs and wikis, social bookmarking and more. Participants completing this course will be able to:

• Identify the precepts of the social web (i.e. Web 2.0, Library 2.0)
• Recognize and evaluate web-based tools for deployment in user’s environment
• Evaluate and select web-based tools for dissemination of information and for assessing information for personal and professional uses
• Employ web-based tools for online collaboration

This month long distance learning opportunity includes a course shell you may access 24/7 during the month to complete readings, forum discussions and assignments at your own pace. Additionally, there will be 3 real time teleconferences held via Adobe Connect. The introductory session will be held on November 13 from 2-3 PM ET, 3-4 PM CT. This session will introduce Moodle, the platform upon which the class is hosted. The mid-session teleconference will be held on December 4 from 2-3 PM ET, 3-4 PM CT. The class wrap up teleconference will be held on Dec 18 from 2-3 PM ET, 3-4 PM CT. Participants will have until January 8 to complete their assignments.

There will be no assignments during Thanksgiving week.

To register, please contact Dale Prince by e-mail at jprin001@umaryland.edu if you are in the SE/A Region. If you are in the Greater Midwest Region, please contact Max Anderson at max@uic.edu.

This class is worth 8 MLA CE hours and is limited to 15 participants per region on a first come, first serve basis. All others will be placed on a waiting list for the next time the class will be taught.

Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency
http://www.hrsa.gov/healthliteracy/training.htm/

Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) online course will be of interest to librarians who provide support and information to the public and health professionals. To take the course, register with TRAIN (https://www.train.org/DesktopShell.aspx), the distance-learning resource for public health professionals. The course has been awarded five MLA CE credits.

Health Literacy: New Fields New Opportunities
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/tutorial/SWF/flashcheck/main.htm

Developed by World Education with support from the NN/LM Northeast Region, this tutorial covers: Health Literacy Challenge, Health Literacy Practitioners, Successful Strategies and Practices, and Applying What You Have Learned.

Assuring Quality Care for People with Limited Health Literacy
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8603

Developed by Medscape, this tutorial defines health literacy and reviews how limited health literacy may affect the quality of healthcare. Also, it examines the relationship between health literacy and patient safety, identifies communication skills and clinical interventions that improve health communication for all patients, and reviews clinical care strategies that improve care for those most vulnerable to the effects of limited health literacy.

Assessing Health Literacy in Clinical Practice
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8203

Developed by Medscape, this fact filled and well referenced tutorial assists clinicians and librarians learn how frequently they deal with patients with limited health literacy. It suggests strategies to use to adjust communication style to meet the needs of all of patients.

Health Literacy and Public Health: Communicate to Make a Difference series
http://www.nynj-phtc.org/phLit/Home/phlit-login.cfm

New York/New Jersey Public Health Training Center’s information-packed, referenced course in 2 modules: Module 1: Health Literacy & Public Health, and Module 2: Strategies for Addressing Low Health Literacy.

Is Your Document Readable for Your Target Audience?
http://wchs-web.asp.radford.edu/Old%20Web%20site/tutorial/index.htm

This tutorial assists the learner to analyze the reading ability of a target audience and to evaluate existing materials. Guides the learner through the steps in the process of developing, or revising, appropriate materials and provides links to outside resources.

http://www.medicalhome.alabama.gov/default.aspx?ID=1704

http://www.medicalhome.alabama.gov/default.aspx?id=539

Also available for download. the test on the Medicaid Agency website at www.medicaid.alabama.gov that can be taken and mailed. Contains all of the CME module post tests.

Great Rivers Partners for Health-E People!
http://www.literacycoalition.org/healthliteracy.html

Provides teaching tools to help the health care provider understand, and learn, how to work with patients who hide their lack of literacy skills. Users must register to get a login id. One program is for healthcare consumers (general public) and one is for healthcare professionals. Each program takes about 15 minutes to complete.