Mini Med: Medical School to the Community

Improve Your Understanding of the Human Body through a Free 8 Week Class

Sponsored by the University of Colorado Denver’s Anschutz Medical Campus

Mini Med 2009 will start on Wednesday 16 September and run for 8 consecutive Wednesdays, ending 4 November. The program begins at 7 PM, with a hour’s lecture followed by time for questions & answers.

Register Here:

http://www.uchsc.edu/minimed/

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No Tuition! No papers to write! No reading assignments! And best of all, No tests!

Maybe you barely survived high school biology and, as time whizzes by, feel lost in the terminology, the technology, and the treatments that the medical profession is using these days.  Perhaps you’re a science buff who wants a refresher course.  Maybe you wish you had chosen a medical career.  Well, now you can!

The Mini Med School program is each Wednesday from 7pm – 8:30 pm. This popular lecture series was founded in 1989 by J. John Cohen M.D., Ph.D, Professor of Immunology and Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, and has been copied around the world.  The Mini Med School is a free, non – accredited, eight week program.  The lectures will be video broadcast from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science promptly at 7pm, and you can attend there or at one of the many distance sites around the state.  You won’t get a medical degree, nor can you practice medicine, but you will get the background, the overviews, and the updates that can make all the pieces of the biomedical puzzle fall into place.  Each class includes an hour presentation on the evening’s topic, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.  The program covers the basic science that underlies medicine.  Topics such as molecular and cell biology, anatomy and physiology, immunology, cancer and pharmacology, pathology and microbiology will be covered.  Taught by experts in their field, these great CU lecturers are chosen for their ability to make the technical language of medicine understandable.  By attending 6 of the 8 weeks you’ll receive a diploma!

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND and seating is limited.

Web 2.0 Course Offered for Summer

Want to learn about Web 2.0?

The Tucker Medical Library at National Jewish is offering an 8 week online class:
Web 2.0: Introduction to Web Second Generation Web Tools
Class date: June 23 – August 17, 2008.

If you find this post you can still sign up until the end of Week 3 – July 11!

No prior knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies required. This class provides a hands-on introduction to 2.0 tools. Discuss with your colleagues the benefits and challenges of these tools as related to health care and research. The online class will require 1-2 hours per week of work. Content will include background readings, discovery exercises (along the lines of ‘try this tool out’), and a discussion blog. This course covers many new web trends that you may have heard of, including:

• Blogs and RSS
• Wikis
• Social networking
• Social bookmarking and tagging
• Web office tools
• Photo sharing
• Online hosted video
• Mashups

You will have time to make up weeks if you have an absence, but all participants who finish the entire course content by August 31st will receive a flash drive.

The class will be team-taught by Roz Dudden and Shandra Protzko. Don’t miss this great opportunity to explore and discover both established and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. Learn about tools to make you more productive and creative, and have some fun at the same time!

Registration is open until Wednesday, June 25th. Late Registration until July 11.

Contact a class administrator for questions:
Shandra Protzko, MS, AHIP | Information Specialist | protzkos@njc.org | 303.398.1343
Roz Dudden, MLS, AHIP, FMLA | Library Director | duddenr@njc.org | 303.398.1483

Mobile Wireless Classroom Available

The Tucker Medical Library can deliver customized training to your department with our new Mobile Wireless Classroom.

• We have six Windows and six Macintosh laptops available.
• You may request a mixed platform session for a total of ten participants.
• The cart includes an LCD projector, a printer and WiFi connection to the Internet.

The library staff will provide the technology and support for users. We can tailor instruction, upon request, to meet the specialized needs of National Jewish. Abbreviated courses can be taught in any department or new courses can be designed to address the needs of unique audiences.

The portable classroom is also available for loan. Library staff will provide set-up, basic technology support, and break-down for the portable classroom. Contact the library about using the equipment on a regular basis without library staff support.

Find the downloadable request form (pdf or word document) on this page and submit form to the library at least two weeks prior to training date. Please read policies and procedures carefully. You will be contacted to confirm the instructional session or portable classroom loan.

E-mail Shandra Protzko <protzks@njc.org> or call x1343 to find out more.