Class of 2012
Kristy, Lindsey and I were thrilled to welcome our (wonderful) 48 new students and got several good hours and quality time with them to provide what we are calling Managing Medical Information I and II. In the first session we quickly reviewed reasons to start at the AHSL home page and key navigation recommendations. In Session II, we went more deeply into how to conduct effective searches, focusing on the EBM Search Engine and PubMed. We were fortunate to have cases with which to work and for the students to relate to, and we believe our results (gratitude, enthusiasm, participation and no sleepers!) show that we were effective. We are grateful to two CELs, Kathleen Carlson and Lora Robbins who were invaluable with the hands-on sections. Their presence also introduced students to two area librarians they can work with and consult. Tomorrow we have a session on mobile computing, and next week, we see our new MS-2s in their first week of class which focuses on Biomedical Informatics. We have also been included as faculty for the learning community/scholarly project (called Scholarly Project 101) curriculum and will be in class with the students for those sessions.We are grateful to our IS Team as all the student laptops worked for both weeks, a radical change from last year. There were few snafus, thanks to pre-planning and good IT support. Our Media Services Team (Keven, et. al.) developed a cool (and quite silly) video you can view at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZbc6CnTOk
We have launched a blog to use to share library-related info: http://ahslphoenix.wordpress.com/ In sum, we are grateful and pleased for a good start to the second year of the COM-Phoenix! Thanks to AHSL-Tucson for all your support; we obviously could not have done it without you!
