30 min UpToDate training opportunity

UpToDate Client Connection Webinar: UpToDate Tips and Tricks – How to Search UpToDate and Get Answers Quickly

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Time: To accommodate different time zones, two separate sessions will be conducted.

Please register for either time listed below:

  -          UpToDate Client Connection: March 27 at 11:00 a.m., EST
  -         UpToDate Client Connection: March 27 at 9:00 p.m., EST


Duration: 30 minutes

Presenter: Jonathan Zand, PharmD BCPS, Drug Information Specialist

A Workshop on Systematic Review

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health is presenting a symposium on "Evidence Matters: Outcomes, Efficiency, Impact"for more info, visit http://cadth.ca/events/2012-cadth-symposium#

A Consumer Health Resource

What your patients need and what you need to know in order to communicate better with your patients. Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, will help your patients to communicate easier with their health care professionals. This is tutorial is suitable for people with low health literacy level and now it is available indownloadable version. It can also be viewed when no Internet connection is available.

To watch the tutorial please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html

For downloadable version, please visithttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medwords/medicalwordsdownload.html

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) College of Computing Sciences invites candidates for the following full, associate and assistant professor positions starting in August 2012.   We are especially encouraging successful senior members of our field to explore these positions. For more information, see http://is.njit.edu/about/jobs/jobs2012.php

Position # 2 and 4 might be of interest.

Generating e-Scientists

"In partnership with librarians at the University of Minnesota, the
University of Oregon, and Cornell University, the Purdue University
Libraries received nearly $250,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services to develop training programs for the next generation of
scientists, to enable them to find, organize, use, and share data
efficiently and effectively.

The program is intended for graduate students in engineering and science
disciplines who are working their way toward careers as research scientists.

More information on the data information literacy project is available at
http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste "