{"id":34164,"date":"2025-12-04T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/?p=34164"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:51:41","slug":"chiscertified-liscourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/chiscertified-liscourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your LIS Course CHIS Certified at No Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you or someone you know teach a health information library course? In partnership with MLA, NNLM offers a unique opportunity for LIS and iSchool programs to get their health information-related course(s) approved to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/guides\/consumer-health-information-specialization-library-students\">Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS)<\/a>. By aligning a course with CHIS core competencies, instructors provide students with concrete capabilities, from identifying reliable health-information resources to evaluating content, understanding health literacy, and navigating ethical issues in health communication.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching a CHIS-certified course in your LIS or iSchool program is a great opportunity for students to show that they&#8217;ve gained knowledge and skills in providing health information services to consumers and an extra skill to add to their resume. This converts classroom learning into real-world service: whether future librarians work in public, medical, or academic libraries, they\u2019ll be equipped to respond to real consumer health information inquiries with confidence.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Can Participate?<\/h3>\n<p>LIS and iSchool instructors teaching health information-related courses, subjects like consumer health information, health informatics, and health sciences librarianship. It is not limited to schools in a specific region, and any LIS\/iSchool program in the country is eligible to participate.<\/p>\n<h3>Is There a Fee?<\/h3>\n<p>No! With this partnership, the Medical Library Association (MLA) will waive the approved course application fee for professors participating in the program.\u00a0Additionally, NNLM will cover the CHIS application fee (a $99 value) for level 1 or level 2, including renewals for students who complete the course.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Should I Contact?<\/h3>\n<p>Reach out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/about\/offices\/nto\">NNLM&#8217;s Training Office<\/a> at <a href=\"mailto:nto@utah.edu\">nto@utah.edu<\/a> with any questions you may have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34165\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/12\/LIS-professors-promo_LinkedIn.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you or someone you know teach a health information library course? In partnership with MLA, NNLM offers a unique opportunity for LIS and iSchool programs to get their health information-related course(s) approved to offer a Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS). By aligning a course with CHIS core competencies, instructors provide students with concrete capabilities,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/chiscertified-liscourse\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-collegeacademic-libraries","category-request-for-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34171,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34164\/revisions\/34171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}