This catalog lists courses that are no longer available for MLA CE credit or for enrollment.  Peruse this list if you are looking for ideas for new courses or need your memory jogged about the content of an old course. 


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5 Clinical Questions You Can Answer with NCBI Databases*

In this webinar, you will learn about the NCBI databases GTR, ClinVar, and MedGen and how to use them to answer 5 clinical questions.
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5 Questions You Can Answer Using the NCBI Nucleotide Database*

You will learn about the Nucleotide database and how to use it to answer the following questions :How do I find a nucleotide sequence for a specific gene or specific organism? How do I find complete genomic sequences? What is the coding region of a sequence? And more...
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5 Questions You Can Answer With NCBI Protein and Structure Databases*

Protein sequences are the fundamental determinants of biological structure and function. This webinar shows how to use the Protein and Structure Databases from NCBI to find information about the biological structure and function of proteins.
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A 10-Step Approach to Service Continuity Planning

This face-to-face course was developed as part of NN/LM’s Emergency Preparedness & Response initiative. The outcomes for the class are to raise awareness of the need for emergency preparedness and response planning and to provide tools for for medical librarians to enhance preparedness.
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A Time Management Program Developed for Oregon Health Sciences Libraries Association (OHSLA)

In this four-hour face-to-face training, presenter, Iris Savich, MA will address the ten operational styles of time management and link to time management issues. She will help us with time management techniques that are applicable to librarians in a variety of settings.
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ABC's of Research Impact: Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Citations

In this face-to-face course, participants will explore bibliometrics and altmetrics tools at an introductory level.
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Accelerating Innovation through Information Tools and Expertise

Instructors of this face-to-face course will share how librarians can get involved with institutional innovation initiatives, such as medical device development, games, health care apps and innovative publishing outlets. Librarians can be involved throughout the entire innovation process.
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Advanced PubMed Techniques*

Learn advanced concepts to add to your PubMed toolkit. Automatic Term Mapping; Author searching; Drug information to treat diseases; Pharmacologic action; Coordinating MeSH terms (like Indexers do); Tools for finding Evidence Based research in PubMed; Phrase searching and the Phrase Index.
Information Services Free Evidence-Based Practice & Research NNLM/NLM
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Advanced PubMed: MeSH*

This class covers advanced concepts of Medical Subject Headings for searching via PubMed. Topics include annual MeSH updates, effective use of subheadings, free floating subheadings, and commonly confused terms. This course is intended for those with at least beginning knowledge of PubMed and MeSH.
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Advanced PubMed: Searching for Treatments, Diseases and Drugs

This advanced session of PubMed focuses on search techniques to find citations that deal with treating diseases with drugs and explores the concept of pharmacologic action.
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American Indian Health Information Resources*

This two or three hour hands-on class introduces a variety of governmental and non-governmental Internet resources that have health information for American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Students attending will be able to practice their skills in finding health information.
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Applying Data Management Strategies: A Showcase of Data Management Projects

This webinar, sponsored by the Medical Informatics Section, will showcase data management projects at three different libraries. The librarians will share their thoughts on developing services and opportunities and challenges for librarians interested in working with data management.
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Appreciating Diversity: A Workshop for Health Sciences Librarians*

This face-to-face course is designed to help participants develop cultural competency knowledge, recognize the impact of cultural beliefs on one’s thoughts and behaviors, and improve attitudes and beliefs about the role of cultural factors in the delivery of library services and programs.
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Augusta University’s Research Data Management Symposium*

Discussions around data management often occur within individual departments or colleges on a university campus; however, the health sciences library has the opportunity to support an interdisciplinary, consolidated effort to connect researchers and resources across all disciplines.
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Back to School: Enhance your Research with HSR Methods, Tools, and Resources from the National Library of Medicine

This free recorded webinar provides an overview of resources provided by the National Library of Medicine’s National Information Center on Health Services Research (NICHSR) to support the HSR community.
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Becoming an Expert Searcher

What constitutes an expert search? Who can be an expert searcher? This face-to-face class looks at these questions & practices techniques (reference interview, database analysis, search construction, and search evaluation) used by expert searchers.
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Beginning with EndNote*

Are you having trouble organizing and citing your the research papers you have collected? EndNote can help! This course provides a basic and practical introduction to the EndNote bibliographic software, with live demos and hands-on exercises.
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Best Practices in Conducting Systematic Reviews in Medical Education

Systematic reviews are becoming increasingly important in the biomedical literature. This face-to-face course is designed as a train-the-trainer workshop for librarians partnering with research faculty in medical education.
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Beware of Sharks: Predatory Publishing and Practices: Be Prepared!*

Can you identify predatory emails, journals, conferences, and more? If not, then come to this hands-on course. Learn from real-world examples; leave with helpful tools. Understand how predatory practices developed and impact science. You can prevent your patrons from falling prey to these tactics.
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Beyond Readability Formulas: Writing Clear and Effective Patient-Centered Educational Materials

This face-to-face course will explain the principles of creating patient education materials and consent forms in plain language. Through the use of real-life examples participants will master language and formatting guidelines that meet the needs of people with all levels of health literacy.
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Beyond Systematic: The Librarian’s Role in Shaping Reviews

Melissa Rethlefsen, AHIP, Whitney A. Townsend, and Joey Nicholson discuss how systematic reviews have evolved and when to consider other types of reviews.
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Beyond the List: Unpacking the Predatory Publisher

This face-to-face course enables learners to think in a deep way about how librarians can evaluate the published biomedical literature they find and make decisions about quality.
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Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles*

Health data is the new frontier and now is the time to act. This course will help you understand issues of big data in clinical outcomes and roles you can take in this service area. Course content inc. Using Data to Improve Clinical Patient Outcomes forum, article reviews, and Big Data Fundamentals.
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Bravery & Brevity: Developing Effective Presentation Skills

Get over fear of public speaking: Practice is the cure! In this face-to-face course, you will practice speaking in public, and learn to edit yourself by focusing on your main idea and stating it in two minutes or less.
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Charting a New Course: Practical Data Visualization for Librarians*

Gain practical and immediately useful skills in creating attractive and informative visualizations of qualitative and quantitative data using Microsoft Excel, through a series of hands-on activities.