Introduction to CBL (Case Based Learning): Searching for CBL-appropriate resources, resource evaluation, Google search techniques
Introduction to TOS (Topic Oriented Sessions): Use of databases and point-of-care tools, focusing on Access Medicine and Clinical Key
Library Orientation Tours: Mandatory introduction to library resources and services including an adaptation to the game Password.
WGS 111: Framework for critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine
MCS: CBM 104 and CBM 106
Introduction to EBM (PGY1)
Search for Literature (Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine)
Academic Days (PGY1 and PGY2) - 6 sessions
Librarians co-presented the following sessions at the Northern Constellations Conference:
We also hosted our regular booth at the conference with the addition of very popular button making:
We joined Project ECHO - Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship. ECHO stands for Extensions for Community Healthcare Outcomes. ECHO increases Primary Care Providers' (PCP) skills and confidence in managing specific complex chronic conditions through weekly case-based learning video-conference sessions. These sessions meet the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the CEPD Office for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ credits. This ECHO team is one of 13 ECHO hubs in Ontario, with multidisciplinary members. The Librarian addresses any information needs that arise during a session, contributes to the discussion board, and suggests open access resources to support the cases and didactic presentations.
Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP)
Lakehead University Nurse Practitioners
Librarians work with PGE and UME to provide a variety of liaison supports. A guide, distributed to Theme committee members and PGE program coordinators was created to highlight those supports: liaison librarian guide
There were over 160 interactions with the programs.
We have 38 guides with a total viewing of 13,196. The top viewed guides were:
We have 22 video tutorials hosted on our YouTube channel. They were viewed 893 times. The most viewed was "Creating a Clinical Question. Part 1: Classifying the Question" with 152 views.
We ran two Orientation sessions, one in October and the other in February:
We hosted monthly drop-in sessions:
Huntsville Physicians Local Education Group (LEG):
Presented a 60 minute session at the Huntsville Medical Teaching conference. Outlined the resources and services available to NOSM faculty, with specific emphasis on the suite of research support services. Also included a booth during the workshop that enabled 1:1 consults.
