This site links to other sites for resources, stats and other health topics including women's health, aging, sports medicine, health policy, surgery, statistics and more. Also allows keyword search for classifications. The desire of most users for a hands-on, computer assisted approach to training makes this a good course to offer in a laboratory setting. The highly specialized nature of the course in terms of subject expertise makes it an ideal candidate to be conducted by a researcher or librarian who also desires to be an internal trainer. Such a presentation may make this course exceptional.
Vendors are often excellent training resources.
This class could be divided into two sessions depending on the time allowances for training within your organization. In our organization it is usually easier to have the material presented in two sessions, delivering the sources section after evaluation skills have been clearly established in each researcher. The list of URLs is presented to new health care researchers as part of the training module for the introduction of health care resources. The URLs for these sites are formatted as hot links within a document that is distributed to the new researchers' desktops via e-mail. This provides researchers with the opportunity to open the e-mail and explore the links at their convenience.