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14
0 comments Tags: community engagement, MedlinePlus, natural medicine
Last week, I met with staff at the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee (CEOC) for a MedlinePlus training. CEOC is an anti-poverty agency which seeks to “empower people and mobilize resources to fight poverty’s causes and impacts through education and organizing.” My goal was to share information about freely available health information resources for 1) personal staff use… Read More »
Posted in: Trainings
May
01
0 comments Tags: adult learning, Instructional Design, trends in education
Are you a student or a teacher? My answer is I am both. Even if you are an educator in a K-12 school, college or a university, I bet you also spend a portion of your time wearing the hat of a student. Most of us experience being a student because our jobs require… Read More »
Posted in: Communities of Interest, Instructional Design, Trainings
Apr
28
0 comments Tags: Health Literacy, HealthReach, mental health
On a rainy Sunday afternoon, I pulled my roll luggage into a church basement on the Everett/Chelsea line in Massachusetts. I had MedlinePlus materials, printouts from HealthReach, laptop, iPhone and my National Library of Medicine table cover. I heard the congregation singing in the chapel upstairs. Our Lady of Grace celebrates Mass in Haitian Creole on… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health
Apr
24
0 comments Tags: All of Us, community engagement
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is excited to announce the All of Us Research Program official launch on Sunday, May 6, 2018. This national event will be held in seven communities throughout the United States and will be broadcast and on Facebook Live. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort… Read More »
Posted in: All of Us
Apr
17
0 comments Tags: Evaluating online information, trust it or trash it
Any guesses on what the 2017 “Word of the Year” was? It was actually a term, not a word. The term was “Fake news.” Just 18 months ago this term was not familiar to most of us. However, “fake news” has become a very important topic to all of us. According to a recent article… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources