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Scheduled Courses in Evidence-Based Practice & Research

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Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (Recording)

This webinar helps you learn the fundamentals of critical appraisal of a systematic review/meta-analysis and plain language explanations of key concepts. #MLATeachCritApp
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Critical Contributions: Developing Research Appraisal Skills at Your Institution (Recording)

With the reproducibility crisis in biomedical and health sciences, medical librarians have an opening to expand their contributions to health care and raise their status by teaching critical appraisal. Abraham Wheeler and Amy Blevins aim to get you fired up about teaching in this new area!
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Digging Deep into Data: Critically Appraising Data and Data Collection Methods (Recording)

Can you evaluate data collection methods? Interpret and evaluate data documentation? Help researchers find a quality data set that suits their purpose? Gain the skills needed to answer Yes! and become more marketable and more valuable in your workplace.
Information Management MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research Data Services Specialization
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Peer Review: For Reviewers and Authors (Recording)

Do you fear peer review? Join this webinar to find your strengths as a peer reviewer and learn why this role is crucial to research in our field.
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Expand Your Research Impact Services (Recording)

This webinar is for those interested in developing or expanding their institution’s research impact services.
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Find the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Search Strategy That Works for You (Recording)

Find a comfortable plan to formulate your search strategy in an evidence based way.
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Finding and Using Health Statistics

This online, self-paced course for librarians and students in health sciences describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.
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From Protocol To Publication: Maximizing the Return on Your Systematic Review Investment (Recording)

Join the presenters as they share their strategies for identifying promising projects, avoiding problems before they scuttle a project, and working with review teams to conduct successful--and published!--systematic reviews. #MLAMaxReturn
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Getting Started and Getting Confident with Statistics (Recording)

Gain confidence in your understanding of statistical concepts in research papers and get started interpreting data.
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Getting the Right Information to Patients Using MedlinePlus Connect - On demand

This one-hour, on-demand training session with videos and exercises is intended to introduce you to what MedlinePlus Connect does and how, and point you to resources for implementing MedlinePlus Connect at your institution.
Information Services Information Management Evidence-Based Practice & Research Consumer Health Information Specialization NNLM/NLM

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Open Discussion of DURA Administration, the Individual Data User Code of Conduct Requirements, and the Relationship to Research Data Management*

This online training will provide more details on the All of Us model of data engagement with members of the All of Us Access Team. A policy review will be provided by members of the policy team. Various scenarios that library workers might encounter will be presented.
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Participatory Approaches for Learning More about Your Data

Encourage your stakeholders to use your data by including them in facilitated group activities! In this highly interactive in-person workshop, attendees will practice using different participatory techniques for interacting with data: planning, collecting, analyzing, and even reporting data.
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Preprints: Accelerating Research – On Demand*

What are preprints and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? This one-hour online, self-paced course is intended to introduce researchers, librarians and others to preprints and how they can be used in literature searching and in sharing your research results with others.
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PubChem*

PubChem is NNLM’s open chemistry database and the largest freely accessible reference tool for chemical information. This online, self-paced course for anyone interested in chemical information walks users through the functions and features of PubChem with interactive exercises and quizzes.
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R Community of Practice - Pilot*

Go beyond the basics and learn practical skills for working with data in R! This pRactice blended course will feature live demonstrations and time to practice programming concepts. Participants can work on their own data projects and get feedback in a supportive, collaborative learning environment.
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Teaching and Leading EBP: A Workshop for Educators and Champions of Evidence-Based Practice*

It is critical for health professions educators and clinicians to be prepared for the challenge of teaching and practicing Evidence-Based Medicine. to help, we invite you to attend an innovative 4-day workshop designed to help clinical leaders and educators enhance their EBM skills.
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The All of Us Researcher Workbench: access diverse data and tools from the NIH Precision Medicine*

The All of Us Researcher Workbench is the largest, most diverse biomedical data and health resource of its kind. Join this online course and learn about the participants, explore the data offered, and see how to start a research project using All of Us data and tools.
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The Computers Work for Us, We Don’t Work for the Computers*

Have you been curious about ways to make artificial intelligence to work for you? Learn how to create better, faster searches with the help of AI in this face-to-face course.
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The Independent Reading Program (IRP): Article Analysis

Earn MLA CE by reading professional journal articles and books. To participate, just read an article or book and complete your article analysis application.
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The Independent Reading Program (IRP): Article Analysis 2

Earn MLA CE by reading professional journal articles and books. To participate, just read an article or book and complete your article analysis application.
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The Independent Reading Program (IRP): Article Analysis 3

Earn MLA CE by reading professional journal articles and books. To participate, just read an article or book and complete your article analysis application.
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The Independent Reading Program (IRP): Book Analysis

Earn MLA CE by reading professional journal articles and books. To participate, just read an article or book and complete your article analysis application.
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Tools and Ideas for Promoting the Researcher Workbench on Your Campus*

Intended to assist in raising awareness of the Researcher Workbench amongst campus communities, this online training will provide strategies to help with disseminating information and developing tools to reach both emerging and established researchers across multiple fields of study.
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Topic Searching in PubMed: Using the Medical Subject Headings (On Demand)*

Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced, online course.
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ToxTutor: Principles of Toxicology*

​In this e-module you will learn the fundamental principles of toxicology.
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Treasures of the All of Us Research Data*

The All of Us Research Program is a National Institutes of Health funded initiative to capture and share comprehensive longitudinal health data. This face-to-fae course will provide participants knowledge about the available data and inspire ways to interact with researchers at their institutions.
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Using Statistics to Improve Library Science and Services*

This face-to-face course teaches how the ability to correctly interpret administrative data enhances service delivery and the satisfaction of patrons. We will examine statistical concepts, survey instrument types and designs, types of data, and the basic analytical tools used for each type of data.
Instructor-owned Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research Data Services Specialization