LGBTQI+ individuals face many barriers in accessing healthcare, including discrimination, lack of access, misunderstanding, and fear. As a consequence, many LGBTQI+individuals do not regularly access appropriate and timely care. The more informed healthcare professionals are, LGBTQI+ patients and clients will become more comfortable in an environment that is often alienating, disrespectful, and traumatic. This class will discuss cultural competency, health information needs, and information resources for working with LGBTQI+ patrons. For more information about this course, see the course description page. (new window)

This self-paced course is designed to introduce you to nutrition information resources available through government resources such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This course contains two one-hour webinar sessions, which you have the option to attend live or view as a recording. 

This course is approved for 4.0 continuing education credits from the Medical Library Association (MLA) which will be made available at the end of the course.

This course runs Monday, February 24 - April 20, 2020.

This course will introduce basic concepts in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), issues about research into CAM therapies, evaluating CAM information, recommended websites, and researching evidence about CAM therapies.

This is a 6-week class (5 weeks of coursework and 1 week for catching up, if needed), and there will be approximately 30 to 90 minutes of work per week. At the end, you will have earned 8 hours of MLA or CHIS CE credit.

Class Description: https://nnlm.gov/classes/will-duct-tape-cure-my-warts-examining-complementary-and-alternative-medicine (new window)

This specialized class will help improve your effectiveness in searching PubMed (new window)  and related NLM and NIH databases for literature information on chemicals, drugs, and genetics. The course begins with searching PubMed for drug information with MeSH terms, Supplementary Concept Records (SCR), and Pharmacologic Actions (PA). Additional topics include searching related databases for drug information, searching for chemicals and chemical nomenclature, and locating literature related to genetics and genomics. This course assumes a strong working knowledge of PubMed including an understanding of automatic term mapping, the importance of reviewing the Details box after searches, using the Advanced search features, and MeSH database. 

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Chemicals, Drugs, Genetics: Searching PubMed and Beyond (new window) class page on nnlm.gov

This is a discussion board for participants in the NNLM AoU Research Program funded community of practice. It is for Consumer Health librarians, library workers and community members who work towards furthering accessible and reliable health information for all people - especially those who have systematically been blocked from accessing reliable and quality health information.

Code to enter the conversations: cp2020 (It is the year 2020 so the 0s are zeros)

This hour-long, asynchronous course is designed for both public health and emergency preparedness professionals and students, as well as the information professionals that support them, who are interested in a basic introduction to emergency and disaster management concepts and learning where you can find information resources to both prepare and respond to emergencies that might take place in your community.

Attendees will learn about the four phases of emergency management and how you can use the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, DisasterLit, REMM, and WISER databases to access life saving information related to public health emergencies and disasters.

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit please visit the Dissemination and Disasters: Using Information to Save Lives (new window) class page on nnlm.gov.

Good data collection tools follow three key principles. They aim to decrease perceived risk, increase perceived benefit, and decrease cost to respondents.  This class shows you how to apply these principles in developing questionnaires and interviews. 

Objectives: 

Participants will learn how to:

• Design data collection methods to match their program plans
• Develop quality items for questionnaires
• Questionnaire distribution methods to increase response rates
• Develop interview question guides
• Conduct interviews that will elicit useful information
• Mix qualitative and quantitative methods in program evaluation

Learn how terminology standards make patient educational materials accessible through electronic health record systems, health apps, and other systems via MedlinePlus Connect (new window) .

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Getting the Right Information to Patients Using MedlinePlus Connect (new window) class page on nnlm.gov.

Learn how to conduct a health reference interview using ethical and effective communication strategies in this 4 credit/4 module asynchronous online class. Through interactive, self-paced tutorials, discussion forums, and a synthesis exercise, users will learn:

• What is a health reference interview
• How the library can protect patrons’ health privacy and confidentiality using ethical guidelines from library associations
• Effective communication strategies to identify the health information needs of patrons
• Simple methods for evaluating online health information that can be easily explained to patrons

This is an on-demand class open February 10, 2020 - April 30, 2020. To register, go to: https://nnlm.gov/classes/introduction-health-reference-ethics-and-best-practices (new window)

Contact nto@utah.edu with questions. | Updated February 10, 2020.

This course is designed to teach public health professionals and librarians to use National Library of Medicine resources in order to find reliable health information and data related to population health and Healthy People 2020. Introductions to MedlinePlus, PubMed, and HSRProj will be covered.

There are five sections in this course:

PubMed for Librarians is a series of four recorded segments. Each segment has a pre and post-test along with accompanying exercises. 

The pre and post-tests let us know if we are teaching what we intend to teach and you can use them to test yourself; What do you know before watching the videos and what did you learn from the videos?

Each segment is worth 1.5 CE credits from the Medical Library Association (MLA) (new window) . After you complete a segment, you will have the opportunity to complete an evaluation. After completing the evaluation, you will be able to claim your CE credit from the MLA site. You do not have to be a member of MLA to claim the credit, but you will have to create an account. 

You do not have to complete all four segments; complete only what is of interest to you.

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the PubMed for Librarians - On Demand (new window)  class page on nnlm.gov.

Please contact me at rebecca.brown@utah.edu (new window) with any questions.

This online, asynchronous course is designed to provide attendees with an introduction to the concepts of culture, cultural competence, and cultural humility.

Participants will learn about some of the current critiques to using cultural competence principles and how cultural humility can be supplemented to create a more accepting, welcoming, and reflective working environment. Short demos of Think Cultural Health, PubMed, and Project Implicit are included to showcase three external resources that can be used to further explore this topic.

To register and receive an enrollment key via email, please visit the Serving Diverse Communities: Building Cultural Competence and Humility into the Workplace class page on nnlm.gov.

Where librarians and NCBI scientists meet to talk sequence data, structures, and other biology fun. Graduates of the NNLM courses "Librarian's Guide to NCBI" and "Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians" are invited to this group.

 A place for the GMR's Public Libraries Focus Group to meet and share information and ideas. 

This is a place for previous RDM class members to meet and share what they are doing.

This is the place where NNLM Staff can learn about NNLM resources by watching recorded Staff Development sessions from June 2019 - May 2020. New staff are added regularly. Contact nto@utah.edu if you require access. Created June 11, 2019 by the NNLM Training Office. 

For NNLM Staff who have completed the NNLM Teaching and Learning Workshop. You will be enrolled after your RML hosts the face to face Teaching and Learning Workshop. Contact NTO for assistance.  

This on-demand class introduces the ADDIE instructional design model. This course is intended to provide one approach to designing classes. This course is limited to NNLM Staff. 

Created July 18, 2018. Checked February 12, 2020

For more information, contact nto@utah.edu

Learn how to  fix common 508 accessibility issues in Adobe Acrobat in this self paced tutorial that uses worksheets and guided answers. Use the enrollment key tables to enroll. Created by Rebecca Brown, May 2018, nto@utah.edu 

This course has pre-built tools for copy and using in other courses.