Category: Workshops

This is our combined 5 hours überworkshop that covers the following information tools and services:

* Mastering Google for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals (1/2 hour workshop)
* Lunch break – lunch is not provided – 1 hour
* PABC Library resources: CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, and more (1 1/2 hours workshop)

If you have already attended our Google or PubMed workshops just skip them and come to the ones you need.

All workshops run on Saturdays on UBC campus in Point Grey – since this is the only place I can book a big enough computer lab to accommodate as many physios as I can from the Lower Mainland.

Here are some dates for February – May 2008:

1. CANCELED – Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sat 12 Apr 2008
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

2. CANCELED – Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sun 04 May 2008
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

The parking on campus is cheap on weekends. The closest parkade to the Koerner Library is Rose Garden Parkade – it is only one block away from the library. Here is the map.

I am looking forward to see as many of you as we can during those seminars!

** Photo by Travelin’ Librarian

PABC CEO – Rebecca B. Tunnacliffe, President – Meena Sran and I are going to the Kootenays this weekend.

I will be offering two workshops in Nelson and Cranbrook:

1. “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals” . See the workshop handout in PDF format here. Alternatively, read it embedded below:

2. “PABC library for physiotherapists”. This workshop will cover the quick-and-dirty searches in CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, PsychInfo, and SportDiscus databases. See the handout for this session in PDF format here. Alternatively, view it embedded below:

** Photo by kelownabc

As many PABC folks already know, now we have access to numerous health full text databases and full text journals , after joining the Electronic Health Library of British Columbia initiative.

Consequently, our workshops format has changed. I decided to ask you to come to one 5hrs. workshop only , which will provide you with all info you need in one package.

This is a combined 5 hours überworkshop that will be covering the following information tools and services:

* Mastering Google for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals (1/2 hour workshop)
* Lunch break – lunch is not provided – 1 hour
* eHLbc resources: CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, SPORTDiscus, and more (1 1/2 hours workshop)

If you have already attended our Google or PubMed workshops just skip them and come to the ones you need.

All workshops will run on Saturdays on UBC campus in Point Grey – since this is the only place I can book a big enough computer lab to accommodate as many physios as I can from the Lower Mainland.

Here are some dates for October and November 2007:

1. Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sat 06 Oct 2007,
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217, View more info and register here.

2. Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sat 03 Nov 2007
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

** Photo by Thomas Hawk

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 🙂

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?

** Photo by orangejack

Here are some workshops that we run in Vancouver during the next few months:

1. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use Google to locate reliable health / medical physiotherapy information, moreover I would also cover the fun things you can do with your search engine and also future directions in search. The workshop is outlined here [PDF, 1.3MB]

2. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine – world largest biomedical database) to find Evidence Based research in physiotherapy. The workshop content is outlined here [PDF, 600KB]

Three seminars would be presented in Feb. – Apr. 2007. Here are the dates:

1. Sat 24 Feb 2007, St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver – downtown), Conference Centre, Lab 2 Instructor: Eugene Barsky

a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

Here is the MAP of where to go in the hospital 🙂

2. Sat 31 Mar 2007, Koerner Library (on UBC campus): Room 217, Instructor: Eugene Barsky

a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

3. Sat 28 Apr 2007, St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver – downtown), Conference Centre, Lab 2 Instructor: Eugene Barsky

a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here

Here is the MAP of where to go in the hospital 🙂

Instructions for registration:

1. Click on an appropriate link to register for a session
2. Type your email address in
3. If you haven’t registered for any of our workshops before, a new form will appear where you would need to type some details, like your name and email address
4. Since our workshops are free only to PABC members, please type your CPA/PABC number into the “Program / Faculty / Department” box
5. Click on “Sign me Up” and you are done
6. You will receive an automatic confirmation from me to your email box immediately

One last note: I would like to ask you to attend a session if you are registering for any! By registering and not coming to a session, you are actually eliminating other PABC members’ ability to attend, since we have limited space capabilities.

This is a quick reminder that this week we have two seminars running:

1. Thu 18 Jan 2007 – MSA Hospital, Abbotsford . Instructors: Eugene Barsky and Katherine Miller

a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 6PM – 7:15 PM. Email me to register for this workshop.

b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM. Email me to register for this workshop

2. Sat 20 Jan 2007 – St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, Conference Centre, Lab 2, Instructor: Eugene Barsky

a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM. Two spots are still available. Register for this workshop here

b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Two spots are still available. Register for this workshop here