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Social technology in health library practice and outreach >> Presentation for Vancouver Coastal Health

On Monday I did a presentation (this is just that time of year when lots of institutions have time to learn and to start new initiatives, so I cannot stop preaching various outreach for libraries 🙂 for Vancouver Coastal Health folks – one of the largest health authorities in Canada on the use of social technology in library outreach.

It was interesting to me to see the differences between the application of those tools in academia (where I am employed) and in hospitals…

Take a look on the presentation in PDF format or see it embedded below:

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New issue of the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy

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The new issue [Jun;37(6)] is up in PubMed. As usual, view the table of contents via the blog’s “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” category (click on the journal’s title) or click here >> The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy

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New handout for PubMed

I am back from the sunny Okanagan. It was fun to meet some eighty (80) of my physio users there and present a number of workshops. Special thanks to Irene Goodis, Gary Weare, Joan Russell, Avis Janz, Mike Yates and Neil Pearson for being great hosts!

I changed our PubMed workshop – “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists” – a bit while being away. It is the same material more or less, but presented a bit differently.

Take a look on the handout in PDF (700KB) or view it as a powerpoint embedded below…

Have a great weekend – it is going to be sunny enough here in Vancouver 🙂

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New workshop – “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals”

Still in Okanagan, I am in Penticton today, teaching another workshop for the area physios – I am very excited to be here, love the sun 🙂

Yesterday, I offered a new 1/2 hour workshop – “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals” for the first time. It was nicely received by the OK physios.

Take a look yourself. Here is the PDF (400KB) for the workshop. Or below is the embedded powerpoint.

Have a sunny afternoon!

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President Bush believes strongly in exercise

In an interview this morning on CBS’s The Early Show, the President spoke about his own experiences with fitness and how his fitness has benefited not only his physical health, but also his mental health. Speaking to Hannah Storm, the President, who will turn 61 on July 6th, had this to say:

I believe strongly in exercise. I exercise a lot because it’s good for my mind and good for my soul. But I hope I set a good example to others that exercise is good for you.

I also respect another quote by Mr. Bush:

“I also think that since we spend a lot of money on food in the education system, then we should insist upon better food,” the president said. “A lot of the dietary problems are just obviously what people eat. And so it’s not just a lack of exercise, or obesity problem, it’s not just a lack of exercise, but a bad diet.”

It would be even nicer, if Mr. Bush could have mentioned physiotherapists as the gurus of exercise 🙂

See the interview on CBS and the video here

Have a great long weekend! Happy Canada Day! I am off to Okanagan next week for some teaching and might not be able to blog till later next week…

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Workshops in Okanagan – July 3-4, 2007

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I am leaving to Okanagan early next week to present three (3) workshops to PABC folks in: Kelowna, Vernon and Penticton.

Details:

Kelowna, Tuesday, July 3rd (hands-on seminar in computer lab) :
• Mastering Google for Physiotherapists. 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM in UBC Okanagan Library LIB111 (Learning Lab). See more info and register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=4106
• Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists. 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM in UBC Okanagan Library LIB111 (Learning Lab). See more info and register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=4107
I still have 6-7 spots available if you are interested to attend. Here is the map of UBC Okanagan for your navigation – http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/images/pdf/ubc_okanagan_campus_map.pdf

Vernon, Tuesday, July 3rd (not hands-on session)
• “Staying up-to-date with professional information – using alerts and current awareness services.” This is a new ½ hour workshop on staying up-to-date. I will present it during my slot at the PABC evening in Vernon Art Gallery. Please contact joan.russell@telus.net if you are planning to attend

Penticton, Wednesday, July 4th (not hands-on session)
• We will have both Google and PubMed sessions running at the Sports Clinic at #207 – 399 Main St. in the City Center Bldg (special thanks to Gary Weare and Mike Yates for arranging this special session). The Google session will run from 6pm till 7:15 pm, and PubMed session will run from 7:30pm till 8:30pm. To register, please email me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a computer lab for this session (Okanagan college wanted a fortune and I don’t have any contacts in local high schools, etc.) If you have any contacts to get us a computer lab, it would be VERY appreciated – it is so much easier to learn all those things when you sit with a computer!

If you already registered to any of those, please don’t register again. This is just the last call to those folks who missed earlier emails and still want to attend.

Folks, I make a real effort to get to as many places as I can in those two days, and money-wise I can do it only once a year, so please, if your schedule allows, come to our workshops and learn some new and useful stuff!

Thanks, eh?

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The physiotherapy workforce is ageing, becoming more masculinised, and is working longer hours: a demographic study.

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Here is a very recent article from the Aust J Physiother. 2007;53(2):121-6 about the Australian physio workforce.

Only the abstract of this article is free, however, it is interesting enough!

They found that: “The physiotherapy workforce has aged significantly since 1986 (p < 0.001), and women are older than men (p < 0.001). Forty-one percent of the 2001 physiotherapy workforce is predicted to retire by 2026, although around one-third of physiotherapists continue working after age 65. While physiotherapy remains a female-dominated profession, the proportion of males is increasing and has risen from 16% in 1986 to 27% in 2001. Physiotherapists are working longer hours than they did in the past, and while this is partly due to the increasing proportion of males in the workforce, generation X and Y females are also more likely to work longer hours than their predecessors.”

Read the abstract here.

Is Canadian physio workforce different? What do you sense out there in the field?

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Friday Fun >> Prometeus – The Media Revolution

Take a look on this interesting video. It makes you think and prepare for the world to come….are you ready for the new reality?

Have a great weekend!

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New issue of Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy is online now

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The new issue of Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy (Volume 15, issue 2) is up online on their site. What I like about this particular journal is that they provide some of the very interesting content freely on the site, aka Open Access.

This time, there is a very long editorial discussing chiropractic challenges to the PT scope of practice….very interesting – take a look 🙂

Moreover, Peter Huijbregts – the journal editor – says to me in his email that: “Open access content also includes an historical review paper by Dr. Thomas Terlouw on the early history of physical therapy in Europe and specifically in the Netherlands (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n2/TerlouwV15N2E.pdf). This material discussed in this article that will likely expose some firmly held beliefs about our history as misconceptions has previously not been available to English-language readers due to the language barrier with most papers on this topic written in German, Swedish, and Dutch.

Book and multimedia reviews make up the remainder of the free online content.

Take a look yourself!

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New article published – Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians

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The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) has published another article of yours truly, this time co-authored with enthusiastic Allan Cho. The article tries to cover the phenomenon of social search in health context. Please take a look – it is free open access:

Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians

The article continues the series of Web 2.0 coverage in health that I co-author with other health librarians:

* Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-001.pdf

* Introducing Web 2.0: weblogs and podcasting for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-013.pdf

* Introducing Web 2.0: social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-024.pdf

The next article will cover one of the most controversial topics in social technology – wikis!

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