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Health Sciences Council welcomes
new chair, vice-chair
The Health Sciences Council is pleased to welcome its new chair, Doug Miller, dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and vice-chair Jim Kehrer, dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Obesity Management Certificate course challenges ideas about obesity
During a day-long certificate course, Dr. Arya Sharma introduced participants to some new ways of thinking about, and treating obesity. "When treating obese patients," he says "forget about weight loss goals."
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Want to improve your debriefing skills?
Check out HSERC's workshop:
Interprofessional debriefing with
good judgement
Only a few spots left and they're filling up fast!
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Good Neighbour Guidelines
Phone, cell phone, FaceTime, Skype etiquette
Remember when the telephone was attached to the wall in your parents' kitchen? when to get any privacy you had to got to Radio Shack and buy one of those really, really long cords so you could pull the phone into the broom closet? Remember brooms? These days, most of us can converse with anyone, anytime, anywhere. And that can cause problems.
One of the most frequent complaints about modern workspaces is noise. And the most annoying noise is conversation. Your brain can't help it - it just wants to connect to the human voice. Paradoxically, due to email communication, our office environments are quieter than ever; this lack of noise can allow one conversation to fill an entire atrium. In effect, the quieter the space, the more every little noise bothers us.
So does this mean we can't converse? talk on the phone? laugh at a joke over lunch? Well, it certainly shouldn't. We can all use some common sense to keep things reasonable for everyone.
- Keep your voice down. You shouldn't need to shout to be heard. If you do, you can use a telephone room for either a cell or VOIP call. Simply unplug your desk phone and bring it to the phone room with you.
- Private calls should remain private. It is never appropriate to carry on a private conversation in a public place.
- Video calls like Skype or FaceTime are fine, but please use headphones or set the device volume on low.
- Please don't use the atriums for cell calls, and never use another person's workspace just because it's closer to a window.
- And finally, recognize that from time to time there will be disruptions; this is part of everyone's work life wherever they work.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestion about this or any other important "good neighbour" behaviour, we'd love to hear from you.
Email the editor here.
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Thank you Lory Laing
Dr. Lory Laing, ready to hit the trails in style, says farewell to colleagues at a party in her honour hosted by the School of Public Health.
Dr. Laing led the School of Public Health to become Canada's first accredited, stand-alone faculty dedicated solely to public health. Dr. Laing also served as the chair of the Health Sciences Council during the past year. Happy Trails!
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Visiting Librarian from Democratic Republic of the Congo
Staff at the Scott Library would like to welcome visiting librarian Hubert Mwembie Bangata-Mbata from the Faculty of Medicine library at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hubert will be located at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library until August 14.
Changes to RefWorks
RefWorks is in the process of making all Login Names unique across Canada. The intent is to eliminate the need for users to supply a Group Code during login. Some users recently received an email message from RefWorks explaining that their Login Name is in use at a different institution in Canada, and recommends that they pick a new, unique Login Name.
How will this affect you? Any of your accounts that have popular login names will be automatically changed according to an algorithm. The process is being carried out in a few batches.
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Whichever account has been accessed the most recently or most frequently will get to keep the name.
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The next most recently/frequently used account will have the login name changed to the e-mail address associated on the account.
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Any subsequent accounts with the same name will get a unique number identifier appended to the end of the login name.
What can you do? In order to see what Login Names are associated with your email and which have been changed, use the Forgot Login Information feature. Visit the RefWorks Update Profile page if you would like to choose a different login name. If more than one person has access to a RefWorks account, don't forget to let them know about the Login Name change.
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Upcoming Events in ECHA
Having an event in ECHA? Post it in the ECHA calendar
Want to know what else is going on in ECHA? Check the ECHA calendar
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492-4833
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ECHA contacts:
Dentistry, Suzanne Roy
Community Engagement,
Continuous Professional Learning, Debbie Smeaton
FoMD,
Therese Vanden Broek
HSC,
Trish Whelan
HSERC,
Pam Rock
Medical Laboratory Science,
Jennifer McPhee
Nursing,
Umar Yusuf or Gail Wacko
Nutrition,
John Bell
Pediatrics,
Sandra Pichler
Pharmacy,
Frank Hanta
Public Health,
Bob Sadler
WCHRI,
Louanne Campbell
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