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Teaching medical students to use social media at John Hopkins U
Dr. Margaret “Meg” Chisolm is an advocate for use of Twitter in demystifying psychiatry, and connecting with patients. She is conducting a pilot study on using it in med school.
Information and health literacies and the media
A favorable article from a newspaper’s website does not mean a new site for medical information is of sufficient quality to be relied upon.
Twitter at the State of the Union address
Popular blogger The Librarian in Black (a.k.a. Sarah Houghton) describes her experience about participating in a “State of the Union Tweet-up” in her latest blog post.
Promoting library services: the neverending challenge
Successful outreach and promotion of library resources and services involves forming partnerships with other departments and organizations, as well as using social media and the latest Web 2.0 tools to educate and inform new and underserved patron groups.
Using Social Media to Enhance Your Research
Social media can be a powerful tool in research. We offer a few examples, and links to the thoughts of other bloggers.
When health literacy needs information literacy
An online health quiz may seem well-researched and informative, but it is important to look deeper and try and determine why it is there, and what purpose it serves. This is how information literacy skills interact with health literacy.
InfoFair 2011: InterProfessional Education
Nanci Murphy, Associate Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington will speak on “InterProfessional Education and Collaboration: Lessons Learned and Future Directions.” Her talk will be followed by a Meet the Experts Panel discussion on the topic of interprofessional education.
Is Social Media Important for Libraries?
The prevalence and use of social media is expanding with Facebook being the most popular such site. How should libraries respond to this? EHSL offers some thoughts on our experience in this area.
Health literacy: the need for “plain talk”
Searching Twitter using the hashtag “#healthliteracy,” I came across an item that sounded exciting: “MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy to Hold Conference in September: ‘Plain Talk in Complex Times.’” Presented in collaboration with the American Public Health Association, the conference offers: Six preconference workshops: build your skills for communicating about health—in person, on the Web, [...]
Searching on Twitter: health literacy
A sampling of the content found by searching Twitter topic “#healthliteracy”.
