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Dental Section
Business Meeting
Monday, May 21
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Marriott Hotel, Room 307 |
DESCRIPTION: The key to a true evidence-based clinical practice is building a body of credible clinical evidence that is organized in a way that allows clinicians to effectively and efficiently locate quality actionable information that will aid their clinical decisions and improve patient outcomes.
This body of evidence-based knowledge and the products and disparate platforms that provide access to it are rapidly evolving, as are clinicians’ use of evidence to inform their decisions. The program will focus on current realities of the integration of evidence-based principles, practices and resources into clinical practice at the point of care. We are interested in how clinicians do or do not use evidence in their practice, the resources they are actually using at the point of care, and research on the effect of using or not using this evidence on health care outcomes. We will assemble a panel of health care professionals in the areas of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and other areas of health care to discuss these issues in their fields.
DESCRIPTION: While many people involved in clinical care and education agree that an evidence-based practice model is key to improving the quality of health care in the United States, in practice the model has proven difficult to implement. Busy clinicians often lack the skills or access to the evidence-based resources that would enable this model of care to be adopted. Therefore, teaching this model and the skills necessary to employ it is becoming an increasingly important theme in clinical education. Academic health sciences libraries must work with their clinical programs to provide clinical students with the skills to effectively and efficiently build the access and use of evidence into their practice as well as an appreciation for the positive impact that this model will bring to quality of care of their future practice. This session provides a chance for academic health science librarians in medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and nursing education to present their successes and failures in integrating the teaching of evidence-based practice into their educational programs and curriculums.
THEME: Collections/Resources
Course materials and information resources are increasingly available in electronic formats. As a result, how libraries support the information needs and education of health care professionals is rapidly changing.
THEME: Education and Outreach
Trends in the Healthcare environment such as increased technology, interdisciplinary teams, quality improvement, and an emphasis on evidence-based practice are causing changes in how healthcare professionals are educated. This program will feature speakers who have been involved in establishing new schools with curricula that emphasize innovations such as computer-based education and community-based learning.
SPEAKERS: Jack Dillenberg, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health-Mesa, and Douglas Wood, A. T. Still University of Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ.
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Monday, May 16 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
PROGRAM TITLE: Reaching Out Magnificently to All at All Points of Care or Need
FORMAT / QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS:
Contributed papers: Identify a population, identify their information needs, and share the ways answers can be delivered to them.
Dental Section members reviewed 34 abstracts for this unique session and selected 5 dynamite contributed papers.
SPONSORS:
Consumer and Patient Health Information, Corporate Information Services, Dental, Medical Informatics, Pharmacy and Drug Information, Public Health/Health Administration, Public Services, and Research Sections.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Advances in integrating information in the health care enterprise pose challenges for medical librarians as they reach out in diverse ways to diverse constituencies with diverse information needs. This session will focus on innovative methods of and special or unique experiences in delivering information to diverse constituencies to all points of care or need.
DIVERSITY
Tuesday, May 17 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
PROGRAM TITLE: Diversity in Collection Development
FORMAT / QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS:
Invited speakers: Come hear these specialists share their knowledge of the literature and collection building in these areas.
Dental Section member, Ann Marie Corry, MLS, AHIP; from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry is an invited speaker for this session and will present: “Are they really worth it? - Preliminary evaluation of classic dental citations in terms of the hierarchy of evidence 1980-2003.”
SPONSORS:
Collection Development, Chiropractic Libraries, and Dental Sections; and Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIGs.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Health sciences libraries support a diverse array of subject areas, while much of the collection management literature and tools focus on mainstream clinical and basic sciences subjects. This program will present strategies and issues related to the literature of and collection development in more diverse subject areas, including complementary and alternative medicine, chiropractic medicine, gay literature, and dentistry.
RESEARCH
Tuesday, May 17 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
PROGRAM TITLE: Establishing Best Practice
FORMAT / QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS:
Contributed papers: What are the established sources for best practice in such fields? How are these established? How do you teach others to use this evidence effectively for their practices? How have you applied the MLA benchmarking data and the results of your LibQual+ survey to your own or your institution's decision making?
Mike Kronenfeld, MLS, AHIP; Dental Section member will be moderating this session.
SPONSORS:
Dental, Consumer and Patient Health Information, Hospital Libraries, Leadership and Management, Public Health/Health Administration, and Research Sections; Assessment and Benchmarking SIG.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Clinical medicine has modeled the use of scientific evidence to support professional decision making. But how do you locate, organize, and analyze the existing data in non-clinical medicine fields like librarianship, oral health, and public health?
RESEARCH
Wednesday, May 18 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
PROGRAM TITLE: Trends in Oral Research
Invited speakers:
Karen Adler Storthz, Ph.D., Professor of Diagnostic Sciences and Associate Dean for Research at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston will speak on: “The Changing Landscape of Oral Health Research.”
Leah Krevit, MLIS; Dental Section Past-Chair and Associate Director for Collections Management, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library will speak on: “Scholarly Publishing: What's in YOUR Toolkit?”
Marilee Creelan, MLS, AHIP; Dental Section Chair-Elect / Programming Chair and Assistant Professor & Academic Librarian, Medical College of Georgia will moderate the session.
SPONSORS:
Dental and Research Section.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Storthz will discuss current trends in oral research and the effect of evidence-based medicine. Ms. Krevit will discuss the role of the librarian in the research process as well as the scholarly publishing blog she created.
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Dental Section Program
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
2:30 - 4:00pm
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PowerPack:
Innovations in Packaging Online Curricula
Description: Development of Web-based
curricula using a variety of Web-based technologies
is a growing trend in health sciences education. Methodologies
for delivery of online curricula has expanded to include
opportunities for interactive dialog among course participants
as well as multimedia presentations of course content
using a variety of technologies. This session will explore
innovations in the development of online curricula in
an academic dentistry and pharmacy program, efforts
to provide standards and accreditation for both remote
and onsite environments, and the librarian's role in
enhancing informatics content to supplement and enhance
online health sciences educational content.
Cosponsors: Educational Media and
Technologies and Pharmacy and Drug Information Sections
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Tsunami!
New Publishing Paradigms and Health Sciences
Libraries
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Join
the Dental Section and Dr. Titus Schleyer by the sea for a
great program on Monday, May 5, 2003
Abstract:
"Computing in Dentistry"
-- A New Book and Website
"Computing in Dentistry" (see
http://www.dental-computing.com),
currently in development, is a combination of a book and a
Website about computer and information technology applications
in dentistry. The major focus of the project is to create
acontent-specific, complementary and synergistic resource
from traditional and electronic media. The project was derived
from several premises. The experience of our first traditional
textbook publication (The Global Village of Dentistry,
1998, Quintessence) clearly indicated that obsolescence is
a major problem for technology topics. Second, there is critical
need in the dental community for a comprehensive resource
on computer technology that is not being met with traditional
information resources. Third, a novel approach was needed
to combine one of the oldest academic activities, publishing
textbooks, with one of the newest academic activities, creating
Web-based resources. "Computing in Dentistry" allows
readers to interact with the content of a textbook in a new
way that is more akin to educational software. For instance,
content is separated into more static and dynamic parts. Readers
can choose to be notified when new material about a specific
topic becomes available; highlight content updates; ask questions
of the authors or interact with other readers; and use pointers
in the hardcopy to access corresponding online resources through
the Website immediately. In addition, an intelligent search
engine allows retrieval of specific information quickly. The
presentation will highlight the design of the book/Website,
and discuss results of early usability tests.
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