Locating and Using Medical Information in the Digital Age

Thursday, December 20, 2018, 12:00 AM - Thursday, March 26, 2020, 12:00 AM PST, Online Course

Internet Enduring Material Sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Presented by the Medical Lane Library and Knowledge Management Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Given the proliferation of information and information tools, today’s practicing clinicians and nurses need to identify reliable medical information resources, effectively search those sources, and then manage the information that they find efficiently and appropriately. This course will have direct relevance and benefit to any health care provider who seeks efficient ways to apply the most recent evidence-based practices to their patients.

Intended Audience
This course is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians from a wide variety of specialties including primary care, family practice, and internal medicine as well as nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Release Date: December 20, 2018

Expiration Date:  March 26, 2020  (ENROLLMENT ENDS Jan 28)

Estimated Time to Complete:  1.50 Hours

CME Credits Offered: 1.50

Registration Fee: FREE

*This course ends at 12 noon Pacific Time on March 26, 2020.  New enrollment has closed as of January 28, 2020.  The CME certificate and/or credit transcript is available for this course at anytime and available for download under MY CE with successful completion of the post test and evaluation.

Disclosures:
The following planners and authors have indicated that they have no relationships with industry to disclose relative to the content of this activity:

Henry Lee, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
Stanford University School of Medicine
Course Director, Author

Christopher Stave, MLS
Information Services Librarian
Lane Medical Library
Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-Course Director, Author

Jamie Gray, MLS
Director, Distributed e-Library
Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar
Planner

Colleen Chiahk, RN
Associate Director
Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education
Planner

Nicole Capdarest-Arest, MA(LIS), AHIP 
Head of Blaisdell Medical Library 
University of California Davis 
Planner, Author

Heidi Heilemann, MA(LIS), AHIP 
Associate Dean for Knowledge Management, Director
Lane Medical Library
Stanford University School of Medicine
Planner

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.50 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.50 hours)

1. Describe the principles of evidence-based practices, and demonstrate advanced skills in information and image retrieval and copyright-compliant usage.
2. Identify and efficiently utilize key resources for searching and retrieving reliable, authoritative medical evidence, and employ tools to create a personalized system for keeping current with the growing medical knowledge base.
3. Identify barriers to the practice of evidence-based medicine, and utilize tools for searching, locating and managing different types of medical information (e.g., literature, data, patient education materials, images)

The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Please check with your state’s credentialing board for their requirements.

Accessibility Statement:

Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: http://lane.stanford.edu/portals/cultural.html

Bibliography

Landhuis E. "Scientific Literature: Information Overload." Nature 2016;535(7612):457–8.

Sarah McGrew, Joel Breakstone, Teresa Ortega, Mark Smith and Sam Wineburg, Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning, Theory & Research in Social Education, (1), (2018).

Phillip C Arceneaux and Lucian F Dinu, The social mediated age of information: Twitter and Instagram as tools for information dissemination in higher education, New Media & Society, 10.1177/1461444818768259, 20, 11, (4155-4176), (2018)

For a complete list, please view the References/Bibliography page in the Course.

 

Stanford University School of Medicine has received and has used undesignated program funding from Pfizer, Inc. to facilitate the development of innovative CME activities designed to enhance physician competence and performance and to implement advanced technology.

A portion of this funding supports this activity.