Mark Funk's Great MLA '12 Lecture

Mark Funk's Janet Doe Lecture was the (programming) highlight of my MLA 2012 experience.  His story of librarianship as seen through a content analysis of the MLA Bulletin was ridiculously engaging.

Janet Doe Lecture, MLA 2012 from Leavesamark on Vimeo 

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One Library's Involvement in Medical Education

I'll be at MLA in Minneapolis over the weekend, presenting (poster-style) this timeline of our involvement in Medical Education.  #171.

An Educational Timeline: One Library's Involvement in Undergraduate Medical Education

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Themes for MLA '11

It dawned on me today that the MLA '11 submission deadline is only a couple of weeks away (Nov 1).  Early, as usual.  I took a look at the program themes, and I must say .... it looks good, promising.  I'm impressed, intrigued.  Particularly w/ the following:

• Rethinking the Librarian’s Role in EHRs, PHRs, and EMRs: A Place at the Table
• The Role of the Librarian in the Systematic Review Process
• From Bench to Bedside: Librarians’ Roles in Translational Medicine 

Plus, it looks like TOR is in MIN for a few of those days.  Should be good times.

Plain Language Medical Dictionary

A few of my colleagues at the Taubman Health Sciences Library won an Innovation Award at this year's Midwest MLA conference for the embeddable medical jargon translator below:

Read more about it in the Cornflower.

Grab the code here.

Medical Student Perspectives on Evidence and EBM Resources

This was one of my coauthored posters at MLA '10 (the abstract's on p76 of the program).  It'll also be presented at Med Ed Day on June 8:

Medical student perspectives on evidence and evidence based medicine resources

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