For further information consult MCMLA97 web site or contact:
Bridget Kowalczyk
314-991-4100 ext.119; fax 314-991-4101; kowalczy@medicine.wustl.edu
CE 1: Online Resources for Medical
& Healthcare Statistics
Saturday, 8 am - 5 pm (8
MLA contact hours)
Instructor: Bonnie Snow, Knight-Ridder Information, Inc.
"How much" and "how many" questions, those
requiring incidence, prevalence or utilization rates related to
medical and
healthcare topics, typically induce fear of failure or
frustration among information professionals. This course will
review the
voca bulary of statistical requests and resources and provide an
overview of major data collection agencies and their
hardcopy publications. Building on this foundation, discussion of
sample searches will highlight special indexing features in
online databases that can provide access to morbidity and
mortality, costs and expenditures, rate of utilization,
epidemiologic, manpower/resource demography, and
pharmacoeconomics data. Group practicum exercises will reinforce
selection and strategy formulation skills . Intended for
experienced information professionals, this workshop assumes
familiarity with commercial search systems beyond MEDLARS.
CE 2: The Library as Overhead: Cost
Analysis, Cost Recovery Strategies and Charging Back
Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm (6
MLA contact hours)
Instructor: Cynthia W. Shockley, MLS, consultant
This course gives practical advice on how to conduct cost
analyses (what data to collect and how to apply them),
approaches to be used in determining a cost recovery strategy,
what constitutes a fee-for-service, and how to structure one
for their library's services. The course outline includes: cost
analysis, data collection for cost analysis, applying costs data
to
perform cost analysis, fee-for-service and pricing strategies. It
is taught by lecture with several case studies and checklists
accompanied by exten sive handouts (including a bibliography.)
CE3: Evidence Based Medicine for
Librarians: Panning for Gold
Saturday, 8 am - 5 pm (8
MLA contact hours)
Instructor: Cindy Walker-Dilks, AHIP, Research Librarian,
Health Information Unit, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology
Biostatistics, McMaster Univ.
Learn the principles of evidence-based medicine, an approach
to clinical practice in which clinicians base their decisions and
actions on appropriate evidence from research literature, in
addition to expertise and patient circumstances. Discover the
research approaches to therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and
prognosis of medical conditions and illness. Explore MEDLINE
search approaches for retrieving these types of articles in a
live demonstration.
CE4: Preparing a Business Plan
Sunday 8 am - noon
Instructor: Peggy Lambing, Univ. of Missouri, School of
Business Administration
Information professionals who want to learn and apply the
techniques used by successful businesses to develop plans for the
future of their organizations will benefit from this course. The
course will cover what a business plan is and what should be
included in a business plan. Some topics covered include:
marketing, management & personnel, financing, and legal
issues.
CE5: Health Information Resources:
Financial Issues and Challenges
Sunday 8 am - noon (4 MLA
contact hours)
Instructor: Linda Hulbert, Ass't Director, Saint Louis
Univ. Health Sciences
Center Library
When workshop participants leave the room they will have:
CE 6: Dealing with Institutional Change
Sunday, 9 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Sharon Peters, PhD, Management Consultant
Employees are regularly being asked to do things differently.
Some people (very few) seem to embrace every change
initiative with grand enthusiasm, some (a few) resist every
marginal shift with loud fervor and utter refusal to do anything
in
any way other than the way it has always been done, and some
(most) are instantly suspicious and slow to sign on.
Resistance to change often seems an insurmountable issue. But
there are really only 10 reasons why people don't change.
And we will explore them all, with an eye toward helping everyone
overcome their own resistance patterns and also to give
them the insights to help the organization initiate more
effective ways of getting buy-in.
CE 7: Understanding Your Myers-Briggs
Sunday, 1 - 4 pm
Instructor: Sharon Peters, PhD, Management Consultant
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is used frequently in
organizational improvement/team-building, to help people gain a
greater understanding of themselves and a greater appreciation of
people who process and approach things in ways that are
different from their own ways. It is based on the work of Carl
Jung, who said people develop preferences very early in life
and these preferences are constant.
We will discuss the 4 dimensions, and how they apply to personal
and worklife, as well as how to balance your own
preferences with those that exist with other people, and reduce
the tension that people with opposite preferences often
experience.
CE 8: Care and Feeding of Your Internet
Training Program
Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm (4 MLA
contact hours uncertain/pending)
Instructors: Nancy Ralston, Regional Projects Coordinator,
NN/LM-MR; Lisa Traditi, Head of Information Mngt. Educ. &
Learning Resources Center & Jeff Kuntzman, Information Mngt.
Educ. & Electronic Resources Librarian, both at Univ. of
Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denison Memorial Library
This workshop will give you valuable tips, techniques and
tools for developing new or enhancing on-going Internet training
programs at your institution. The skills that you learn will
enable you to assist your patrons in becoming more proficient
searc hers of the Internet.