Reyada Training

Medical Information on the Internet Workshop, 5-7 December 2006, Capitol Hotel, Dubai – UAE

Diane K. Kovacs, a Web-based Internet Trainer, is the President of Kovacs Consulting Internet & Web Training in USA. Diane has a wide professional experience in different educational institutions & wrote many books and articles. Diane was a presenter in many conferences and has been involved in special scholarly internet projects and got many awards and honors

- You will learn how to critically evaluate medical information found on the Web
- You will become aware of high quality medical information sites on the Web
- Participants will develop selection criteria, plan for collection, evaluation, organization, and maintenance of an e-library collection for a patron group of their choice in a the kind of library they choose.

- Participants will have begun identifying, evaluating, selecting, and collecting appropriate free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for health and medicine.
- Participants will end the session with a completed collection development plan for the health and medicine e-library collection they wish to develop. We will begin by defining "alternative" & "complementary".
- How do we know what is "Good" information about alternative medical traditions or complementary medicine practices?
- How will you avoid and teach others to be critical about fraudulent or exploitative information?
- You will learn about and use information resources that clarify and explain different CAM Traditions.
Web sites that provide warnings of dangerous practices, side effects, or complications are emphasized

- Librarians and other information specialists who work with healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals.
- Healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals who need to develop or expand e-library collections of high quality Web-accessible information resources.

Day One:
How to Find Medical Information on the Internet for the Healthcare Professional and Consumer

- Medical Terminology
- What Healthcare Professionals Can Find or Do on the Internet
- What Healthcare Consumers Can Find or Do on the Internet
- Specialized Health and Medicine Research Tools
- MEDLINE on the Web: PubMed
- Continuing Medical Education on the Web
- Overview: Beware of Bad Information; Privacy and Security
- Misc. Core Fee-based Web-Accessible Medical Information
- Misc. Medical Information Sites

Day Two:
How to Find Good Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) Information on the Web

- Defining Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) Terms
- Evaluating CAM Information
- Avoiding Fraudulent or Exploitative information.
- Finding Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) Research

- PubMed - Limit - Complementary Medicine Subset
- NIH - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

- Finding information about CAM Therapies & Traditions (including qualified practitioners)

- Herbal Medicine/Phytomedicine/Phytotherapy (Dietary Supplements )
- Ethnomedicine

- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
- Ayurvedic Medicine
- Naturopathy
- Other ethnomedical systems

- Musculoskeletal Manipulations
- Energy Therapies
- Faith/Spiritual Therapies
- Mind Body Therapies/Sensory Art Therapies

Day Three:
Electronic Collection Development for Health and Medicine E-Libraries

Lectures & Discussions:

- Part 1. Introduction and Overview: Planning for the health and medicine e-library collection

- Why create health and medicine e-library collections?
- Definition of Web resources and e-libraries.
- Planning for collecting and organizing health and medicine Web resources
- Preliminary planning for health and medicine Web resource collections

- Part 2. Health & Medicine Resource Collection Strategies: Resource Types and User Information Needs

- Selection criteria for Web resources
- Web resource licensing guides and discussions
- Evaluating Health and Medicine Web resources
- Health and Medicine Electronic Library Collection Development Tools & Webliographies

- Part 3. Information Architecture and Web Resource Collection Organization and Access for Health and Medicine E-libraries
- Part 4. Health and Medicine E-library/Web Resource Collection Maintenance

Attendees prerequisite

- Basic Web Experience and Web searching experience.
- Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser
- Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be useful.

Price: AED6350 (Fees Include documentations and handouts, Certificate of attendance, Lunch Buffet, and refreshments)

Capitol Hotel
P.O. Box 33228,
Dubai - United Arab Emirates.

Location: Al Mina Road, Bur Dubai.
Tel.: +971-4-3460111
Fax: +971-4-3460333
Email: caphotel@emirates.net.ae