Communication breakdowns within health care organizations often stem from a reluctance to voice concerns and share information when patient safety is at risk. Speaking up varies depending on the dynamic situations and relationships nurses...
Recent strategic planning initiatives revealed the biomedical research community as being an under-served population and a less-understood user group. A work-group was therefore tasked with gaining a better understanding of this group and...
Three of the Library's primary user groups, the Schools of Nursing (SON), Physician Assistant (PA) and Physical Therapy (PT), require their students to have specific textbooks. The SON, PA and PT library liaisons compared required textbooks to the...
This safe zone training is an opportunity to explore LGBTQIA+ inclusive language and practices, which in turn, will help us to identify how MLA and our home institutions can continue to be more safe and inclusive spaces for our LGBTQIA+...
In class, an individual assessment followed by a group assessment and then application activities to practice the concepts. TBL relies on group work and holding students accountable for coming to class prepared and ready to contribute to the...
Information literacy (IL) instruction permeates health sciences education. There have been numerous attempts to map IL concepts to each professional academic discipline to improve IL instruction and advocate for librarian involvement in the...
Join your colleagues to discuss LGBTQIA+ inclusive language and practices in a safe learning space online. Together, we will explore the basics of vocabulary, pronoun usage, gender and sexual identities, intersectionality, and privilege....
This presentation will draw from the scholarship of Sara Ahmed, feminist writer and independent scholar whose work critically addresses the ways in which diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) function in institutions of higher education. Using...
Biomedical researchers, particularly basic science researchers, make up a large portion of the population the Library serves, yet they are less likely to visit the Library or ask for help. We decided to organize a seminar series as a way to learn...