Classes and Presentations from the NN/LM

The materials given below are only a few of the many training resources you will find at the National Training Center and Clearinghouse's Educational Clearinghouse Database . Be sure to look there for more classes, Web tutorials,handouts and other training materials on your topic.

• Introducing Health Professionals to NLM's Online Systems. Outlines, course d escriptions and a customizable PowerPoint presentation for providing classes in PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, the NLM Gateway, MedlinePlus, and public health resources. You can teach these classes at your institution or doing outreach to health professionals in your community.
  • Introduction to PubMed Basics A PowerPoint presentation ready for you to customize with your name. You can use this as an outline and then go live with your own search examples in PubMed.
  • http://nnlm.gov/training/nlmsys/ Look for more classes on NLM's systems here.
    
• NLM In Your Pocket ... Medical Research At Your Fingertips. NLM has developed several information resources specifically designed for use on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). This one hour workshop is an introduction to two of these applications - PubMed on Tap (PMoT) and PubMed for the PDA (also known as PubMed Anywhere).
  http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/pmot.html
  
• Consumer Health Classes for Public Libraries:
  • Prescription for Success: Consumer Health on the Web. This hands-on introduction 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.
    http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/prescription/
    
  • From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet.This hands-on course will describe why it is important to evaluate websites. Participants will be given criteria for how to evaluate health information on the Internet.
    http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/snakeoil/
    
  • Looking in All the Wrong Places: PubMed for Public Librarians. This 3-hour hands-on class will cover basic and field searching, journal browser, single citation matcher, clipboard, history, and other features. It will also cover how to obtain full-text articles. The title of the PowerPoint can be changed and the class will work just as well for health professionals who are not very familiar with PubMed.
    http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/pubmed/
    
  • Beyond an Apple A Day: Providing Consumer Health Information in the Public Library. This hands-on class will cover the information seeking behaviors of consumers. It will also address the recommended core reference collection, as well as databases and newsletters/ periodicals. It will cover the reference interview, disclaimers, and privacy as well as networking with medical librarians. The class will introduce the students to the Medical Library Association and its local chapters. It will describe possible ways to market this service in a community.
    http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/apple/
    
• Resources for Public Health Presentations. Regional medical library handouts, slides, web sites, and curriculum guides regarding public health.
  http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/phresources.html
  

Handouts and Other Class Materials

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NN/LM Handouts

A complete list of all NN/LM brochures is at http://nnlm.gov/training/pamphlets.html
The following are some of the most popular ones:

• LactMed Basics
  Trifold brochure (last updated January 2007)
• MedlinePlus Basics or
  Trifold brochure (last updated June 2008)
  
• MedlinePlus Basics (Lo esencial de MedlinePlus) or
  Trifold brochure in Spanish (last updated June 2008)
  
• MedlinePlus for Health Professionals or
  Trifold brochure (last updated August 2008)
  
• PubMed Basics or
  Trifold brochure (last updated November 2008)
• PubMed My NCBI or
  Trifold brochure (last updated October 2008)
• Searching PubMed with MESH or
  Trifold brochure (last updated August 2008)
• Full Text and PubMed or
  Trifold brochure (last updated November 2008)