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Continuing Education Courses

All CE courses will be held on Monday, November 16, 2020.

All courses are FREE, but limited to those first registered.  Attendees will be notified at a later date if they can attend.

CE Course: 9:00 am-10:00 am CST (10:00 am-11:00 am EST)

Title: REDCap for Librarians: Distanced Data Collection

In the age of increased reliance on distance-based research, electronic consent and surveys, tools like REDCap are more important than ever before. Understanding REDCap can open an area of data services for librarians, as well as help us collect feedback on workshops and collections. This workshop will introduce participants to REDCap describe a library service model for supporting clinical research with REDCap.

Instructor: Fred LaPolla, New York University

Fred LaPolla is a member of NYU Health Sciences Library’s Data Services team and liaison to the Departments of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (DGIMCI) and Radiology. Fred also teaches Rigor and Reproducibility and R Programming in the Grossman School of Medicine Graduate Biomedical Sciences Institute. He is passionate about professional education and finding ways to facilitate learning around data collection, management, visualization and analysis.

MLA CE Credits: 1

Seats: 25

CE Course: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CST (12:00 pm-1:30 pm EST)

Title: Grey (Literature) Matters: Structuring Your Google Search

Structured Google searching and Google-powered search tools can identify literature that other search tools miss, but there are significant challenges to designing and carrying these searches. This webinar provides an overview of structured Google searching using Google-powered search tools, such as Google Custom Search Engines and Google Scholar, and alternative search engines, such as DuckDuckGo and Million Short.

Instructor: Sarah Bonato, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Sarah Bonato is a reference/research librarian at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, ON. At the CAMH Library, she is the lead for reference services and research services. Her workplace responsibilities include systematic review/scoping review/knowledge synthesis searching, search coaching, and writing for the CAMH Library blog. She has also been listed as the co-author of systematic reviews/guidelines in the subject area of behavioral health. She is also the author of the MLA book, Searching the Grey Literature: A Handbook for Searching Reports, Working Papers, and Other Unpublished Research.

MLA CE Credits: 1.5

Seats: 25

CE Course: 1:00 pm-5:00 pm CST (2:00 pm-6:00 pm EST)

Title: Real World Teaching: Using Teams, Cases, and Critical Pedagogy to Create One Shot Classes

Teaching in health sciences professional schools has been moving to Team-Based Learning (TBL) and Case-Based Learning (CBL), with a focus on health inequalities and disparities to better equip students for workforce conditions. TBL and CBL have been shown to enhance learning in a variety of environments. TBL leverages the power of action-based instruction to help students acquire a deeper understanding of the course content than lectures. Case-studies provide a way to introduce real-life examples of problems students will encounter in their professional work, including the aspect that a perfect answer might not exist. Learn to use these techniques as well as how to use critical pedagogy to develop cases that will get your students thinking and searching for useful information to support their studies.

Instructor: Margaret Henderson, San Diego State University

Margaret Henderson, MLIS, AHIP, is Health Sciences Librarian, and part of the research data services team, at San Diego State University. Previously, she worked at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries for 11 years, first at a Research and Education Librarian in the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, and then as Director, Research Data Management. Margaret has over 30 years experience as a biomedical librarian. She has given lectures and written papers about data and biomedical sciences librarianship and the future of the field. Margaret is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, and is the author of “Data Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians”, published by Rowman & Littlefield in November 2016.

MLA CE Credits: 4

Seats: 20

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Grant Number UG4LM012340 with the University of Maryland, Baltimore.