April 23 – 25 Library Showcase schedule

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Libray Showcase April 2012

Monday – April 23:OvidSP Trainer Glenn McAlpine will be conducting the following Monday training sessions on both South and North campuses. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.
9:30-11 a.m. – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: MEDLINE & PsycINFO Databases.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine, Training Manager, Wolters Kluwer Heath Medical Research.

11 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: Advanced MEDLINE searching.
Presenter:  Glenn McAlpine.

2-3 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to PsycINFO Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

3-4 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to MEDLINE Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

Tuesday – April 24:
11:00 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
Designing Your Best Academic Poster.
Presenter: Jane Scott, Design and Promotion Specialist, UT Southwestern Medical Center Library.

Learn a step-by-step process for creating a poster: evaluate software pros and cons, identify effective basic principles of design, explore formatting tips and tricks for easy graphics and table creation within a poster. Evaluate sample posters for effective use of design principles, readability and impact. Bring your poster samples and questions for technical troubleshooting and individual assistance. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.

Wednesday – April 25:
12 noon-1 p.m. – D1.602
A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession.
Presenter: Carol Tamminga, MD, Chairman of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia, UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Host: Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

Dr. Tamminga will explore the rise of neuroscience as the basis for psychiatry and the policy/practice dilemmas that have emerged as a result.  DSM revisions occurring this year, reported shortages of Ritalin and other drugs, and recent research controversies fuel changes in the profession.

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