With this very unusual snow in Greater Vancouver area and caring for your and our own safety we have to cancel our coming workshops in Abbotsford this Thursday. We will re-schedule those to January 2007 when the regular rain comes back
Category: Workshops
December and January are generally quiet months, therefore I would be offering a bit less workshops during this period. What is going to be covered?
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]
Two seminars would be presented in December / January. Here are the dates:
** Tue 12 Dec 2006 – St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, Conference Centre, Lab 2, Instructor: Eugene Barsky
a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 6 – 7:15pm. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here
b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 7:30 – 8:30pm. Ten spots are available. Register for this workshop here
** 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. 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
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 weekend, I am going to run two workshops in Kootenays, BC – Nelson on Fri., Nov.17th and Cranbrook on Sat., Nov. 18th. In Nelson, the seminar would run from 6-9pm in the computer lab of the Hume Elementary School and in Cranbrook in the computer lab of the Kootenay Regional Hospital from 1 to 4pm.
What is going to be covered? Here is an outline:
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]
I am looking forward seeing some forty of you this weekend 🙂
Starting with the next week, the BC Rehabilitation Sciences Research Network (BC RSRnet) is running a series of 6 workshops on How to Make the Most of your Therapy: Putting Research into Practice!
We , at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC are going to support the project by recording the seminars and providing those to all rehab practicing professional for free on the Web via podcasts, together with the speakers’ presentation. As usual, the podcasts would be available on this blog (under Podcasts category) and on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre website.
For the record, the BC Rehabilitation Sciences Research Network (BC RSRnet) is a volunteer organization of occupational and physical therapists in British Columbia with a mission to generate new knowledge through rehabilitation science research that enables people with varying abilities to participate fully in life. The group’s focus for 2006/7 is knowledge translation: facilitating OT’s and PT’s to put research into practice.
The group has prepared a series of workshops on how to access (Step 1), appraise (Step 2), and apply (Step 3) research evidence in clinical settings.
Here is how their workshops would look like:
1. Nov 9, 2006 – Introduction to BC RSRnet and Evidence- Based Practice. How do I get the best information quickly? Step 1: How to ask the question and quickly access the most relevant literature
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy) and Charlotte Beck (UBC Librarian)
2. Dec 14, 2006 – How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – theory session).
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy)
Additional presenter – TBA
3. Jan 11, 2007 – How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – practical session).
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy) and
Sandy Leznoff (Clinical Instructor, UBC, Clinical Coordinator, PHC Occupational Therapy)
4. Feb 8, 2007 – How do I know the research is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Qualitative articles – theory session).
Presenters:
Wendy Hall (Associate Professor, Nursing, UBC)
5. Mar 8, 2007- How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Qualitative articles – practical session).
Presenters:
TBA
6. Apr 12, 2007 – How do I apply research evidence in my clinical setting? Step 3: How to best integrate research evidence into practice.
Presenters:
Lori Roxborough (Associate Director, Therapy Department, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children & Clinical Associate Professor UBC SRS) and
Linda Li (Assistant Professor, UBC SRS, Division of Physical Therapy)
The workshops are running in Vancouver, BC on the second Thursday of each month (November 2006 through April 2007) from 1:30 – 4:30 in St. Paul’s Hospital downtown.
Here is the workshops outline and the registration form.
Stay tuned for the podcasts of those seminars very soon!!
Tomorrow, I am going to spend the noon hours with some fifty of the island physios in the University of Victora (UVic) library computer lab – Room 130 (that’s their classroom on the main floor of McPherson Library , near reference desk)
What is going to be covered? Here is an outline:
1. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use free general search engines 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, 1MB]
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 EBP research in physiotherapy. The workshop content is outlined here
[PDF, 600KB]
I am looking forward seeing many of you tomorrow – hope it will stop raining 🙂
Today, I did a presentation for the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (VALL) folks in Vancouver.
We discussed the use of Wikis in the libraries. I uploaded the PDF version of the presentation here.
I included different examples of Wikis use in the libraries and private companies, and in a nutshell, my verdict was:
1. Wiki is an excellent tool for internal projects collaboration, internal brainstorming and ideas sharing
2. For external projects try an online social software
3. Wiki is questionable for legal research, however might be of use to find unusual or anecdotal information
Tomorrow, Sep. 29th we are going to have our librarian seminar running in Courtenay, Vancouver Island from 6 to 9pm in North Island College – Comox Campus on Ryan Road, 2300 Ryan Road Comox, Tyee Hall (multicoloured building), Room 114.
The next morning, Sep. 30th, we are going to repeat this seminar in Nanaimo– Central Vancouver Island from 11 to 2pm, where thanks to Teresa Prior, the Vancouver Island Health Authority medical librarian we have a computer lab in the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital – Room B-015 Computer Training Room (Basement, NRGH).
What is going to be covered? Here is an outline:
1. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use free general search engines 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, 1MB]
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 EBP research in physiotherapy. The workshop content is outlined here
[PDF, 600KB]
I am looking forward seeing some forty of you on the island in those two days!!
Just a reminder that we have two workshops to run this Saturday in Prince George, BC.
1. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use free general search engines 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, 1MB]
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 EBP research in physiotherapy. The workshop content is outlined here
[PDF, 600KB]
I am looking forward seeing some of you this Sat. in Prince George!
Here is an outline of our August 2006 workshops:
• “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn how to use free general search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) to locate reliable health / medical physiotherapy information. We will learn how to master a general search engine of your choice (we will take Google as our example) to search for reliable health information, including grey literature; 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
• “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine – world largest biomedical database – FREE) to find high-evidence in physiotherapy and other health sciences research. This would be our major research workshop during which we will learn how to use PubMed with most of its power options, including the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The workshop content is outlined here
Here are times and instructions for registration:
Saturday, August 26, 2006 – St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, Conference Centre, Lab 2, Instructor: Eugene Barsky
a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:00 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
Instruction 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.
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Eventually, I tuned up our booking system and was able to set-up some times for our research workshops in Lower Mainland for PABC members for June 2006.
Here is the plan: For June 2006, because it is a summer (slow) month :), we will have only two workshops in Lower Mainland, each workshop will be presented twice, so it means four (4) workshops in total.
Each workshop will take one-hour and in order to save your precious time, these will be presented back to back, so for example we will have a “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists” workshop running on Saturday from 9:30 am to 10:30 am, and then we will have a second workshop – “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists” presented the same day from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
You can register to either one of the workshops or attend both of them together.
Here is an outline of our workshops:
• “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn how to use free general search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) to locate reliable health / medical physiotherapy information. We will learn how to master a general search engine of your choice (we will take Google as our example) to search for reliable health information, including grey literature; 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–
• “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”. During this hour we will learn to use PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine – world largest biomedical database – FREE) to find high-evidence in physiotherapy and other health sciences research. This would be our major research workshop during which we will learn how to use PubMed with most of its power options, including the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The workshop content is outlined here
Here are times and instructions for registration:
1. Wednesday, June 14, 2006 – Koerner Library, Room #217 – Main UBC Campus, Instructor: Eugene Barsky
a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Twenty spots are available. Register for this workshop here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=2473
b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Twenty spots are available. Register for this workshop here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=2474
2. Saturday, June 24, 2006 – Koerner Library, Room #217 – Main UBC Campus, Instructor: Eugene Barsky
a. “Mastering Google for Physiotherapists”, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. Twenty spots are available. Register for this workshop here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=2448
b. “Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists”, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Twenty spots are available. Register for this workshop here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=2472
Instruction 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.