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A Practical Guide to Scholarly Activity - SFHSLC

Level up your scholarly activities! This webinar provides a practical guide aimed at helping health sciences librarians reach their career goals through a path of scholarly activities.
Instructor-owned Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research
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Basic Statistics for Research Appraisal (Recording)

You don’t need to take years of statistics in order to gain a significant amount of useful knowledge!
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Basic Statistics for Research Design (Recording)

This webinar is for the many librarians who have taken basic statistics workshops, yet still find themselves unsure how to match statistics to research questions in their own research and assessment!
Leadership & Management CE Passport MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research CNE
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Clean & Tidy Data: Getting Started with Spreadsheet Data (Recording)

If you work with your own data or advise researchers on theirs, you’ll want to get started right.
CE Passport Information Management MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research Data Services Specialization
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Clean & Tidy Data: Making Data Usable (Recording)

Learn how to identify the components of a clean and tidy dataset and describe the steps needed to process and normalize a "dirty" dataset.
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Critical Appraisal for Librarians: Evaluating Randomized Controlled Trials (Recording)

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are among the most important study types used to answer clinical and systematic review questions. But not all RCT studies are good enough to share with clinicians or include in reviews. This webinar will give you tools to evaluate the quality of RCT studies.
Information Services CE Passport MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research CNE
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Critical Appraisal of Case Control Studies (Recording)

Learn from Amy Blevins and Laura Menard, two of MLA’s resident critical appraisal experts, how to identify, appraise, and interpret case control studies--one of the most important clinical research study types.
MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research Instruction & Instructional Design
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Critical Appraisal of Cohort Studies (Recording)

Learn from Amy Blevins and Laura Menard, two of MLA’s resident critical appraisal experts, how to identify, appraise, and interpret cohort studies, one of the most common study types health sciences librarians encounter.
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Critical Appraisal of Diagnosis Studies (Recording)

Have you ever wanted to know how to interpret and critically appraise studies about diagnostic tests? Learn all about nomograms, likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity in this interactive webinar.
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Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research (Recording)

This webinar will demystify the process of assessing and reporting on quantitative research by breaking it down into easy-to-understand steps.
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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!
Information Services CE Passport MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research CNE
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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 Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health - June 2023

Curious about evidence-based public health (EBPH) but not sure where to start? This webinar will explore the basics of EBPH and highlight essentials of the EBPH process such as identifying the problem, forming a question, searching the literature, and evaluating the intervention.
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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
Information Services CE Passport Systematic Review Services Specialization MLA Evidence-Based Practice & Research
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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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Going Grey with Google Scholar for Systematic Reviews (Recording)

Learn search techniques to locate grey literature in Google Scholar and more.
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Grey (Literature) Matters: Searching for Preprint Sources (Recording)

Learn about the who, what, where, why, and how to search for preprints. #MLAGreyLitSearch
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Grey (Literature) Matters: Selecting the Right Grey Literature to Search (Recording)

Are you often asked to do a grey literature search with no clarification on what types of grey literature to search? This webinar will color in the blank spaces and enable you to confidently identify the right types of grey literature for your searches. #MLAGreyLitSearch
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Grey (Literature) Matters: Structuring Your Google Search (Recording)

Did you know that Google can be optimized to locate grey literature that other approaches may miss? #MLAGreyLitSearch
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Health Bytes with Region 3: Conducting a Systematic Review: an overview of the process

This monthly webinar from the NNLM Region 3 features expert guest speakers presenting on topics of interest to all our users.
Leadership & Management Information Services Information Management Free Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research NNLM/NLM Instruction & Instructional Design

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A Practical Guide to Scholarly Activity*

Level up your scholarly activities! This webinar provides a practical guide aimed at helping health sciences librarians reach their career goals through a path of scholarly activities.
Instructor-owned Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research
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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.
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Advanced Searching Techniques and Advanced Strategy Design*

This face-to-face course will explore issues around search design and search techniques for undertaking literature searches of complex topics to inform high quality comparative effectiveness research, systematic reviews, guideline development and other major projects.
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Beyond the Pyramids: A Critical Appraisal Survey Course*

Medical librarian hero Lucretia McClure said, "I think the future of librarians is going to be directly related to more science... I think there are skills that we’re going to need down the road, and I don’t know that we’re prepared for it."
Information Services Instructor-owned Evidence-Based Practice & Research
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CAIFL: Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians*

Ready to move beyond basic EBM? Develop your critical appraisal skills in this advanced online course that will prepare you to teach critical appraisal with confidence.
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Community-Based Health Information*

In this online course, learn about consumer and public health information services and programs that can impact the health of the communities you serve.
Information Services Instructor-owned Information Management Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research Consumer Health Information Specialization
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Consumer Health Information Resources and Services*

This online course provides an overview of, and introduction to, the consumer health information environment.
Information Services Instructor-owned Evidence-Based Practice & Research Instruction & Instructional Design
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Create Effective Data Visualizations*

In this webinar, learn about common types of visualizations and how to use them to meet the information needs of your audience.
Free Evidence-Based Practice & Research NNLM/NLM
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Designing for Health Literacy: Exploring Emerging Intelligent Technologies to Support Older Adults*

In this webinar, learn the benefits and barriers of emerging, artificially-enabled technologies for addressing the challenges older adults encounter when trying to find, understand, and use health information.
DEIA Information Services Information Management Free Evidence-Based Practice & Research NNLM/NLM Instruction & Instructional Design
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Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response for Information Professionals*

This online course will explore how libraries of all types are impacted by disasters. Students will learn how librarians work in preparation, prevention, and planning for effective disaster preparedness and response with a focus on community needs and health literacy concerns.
Leadership & Management Instructor-owned Health Information Professionalism Evidence-Based Practice & Research