(via the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s Region 6)
Registration is open for the NNLM webinar “ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians”. It will take place on Wednesday, July 30, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CDT. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov is a vital resource for researchers, healthcare providers, patients and their families, and health sciences librarians who wish to consult the entire body of evidence on any particular topic. Learn how health sciences librarians can advocate to clinical researchers the importance of complying with the results submission requirements mandated by federal law.
Objectives
- Explain the significance of ClinicalTrials.gov
- Search and interpret the results database
- Identify and describe the number of study records with results
- List ways health sciences librarians can advocate to clinical researchers about the importance of complying with the results submission requirements mandated by federal law.
The course is worth 1.50 hours of CE credit towards the Medical Library Association’s Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS), Level 1, and Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS), Level 2. This is a National NNLM class.
For more information, and to register, please go here. Registering requires having an NNLM user account. Create one here.