The University of Alberta Health Sciences Students' Association (HSSA) would like to invite you to attend and participate in our annual Alberta Interprofessional Conference (AIC) on March 21 and 22, 2015.

Our theme this year, The Future of Health Care, will focus on the changing practices in health care, the move towards increasing collaboration between disciplines, and different technologies and policies to promote these changes.

There will be speeches by James Talbot (Chief Medical Officer), Kim Solez (Physician, Entrepeneur, and Professor), and others that you should not be missing!

Experience workshops, networking, speech competition, research posters from students, dinner and more!

Tickets are only $25, all meals included!

WellnessRx is a health initiative focusing on healthy living through education, knowledge translation, and community engagement. Stakeholders of WellnessRx identified web-based education learning modules on nutrition and physical education as a priority to be integrated into existing health sciences curricula, as well as adapted for use by health professionals. Five learning modules were created with essential knowledge, skills, attitudes and resources or tools for health professional students and practitioners. As part of the 'developmental evaluation framework' for WellnessRx, two of these modules were piloted within two health professional student programs. The results which describe the pilot-evaluation experience involving student surveys, focus groups and interviews, and faculty perspectives were published in the journal, Evaluation and Program Planning.

For both modules, student pre-post knowledge assessments indicated some improvements in post-module knowledge. Post module evaluations by students indicated benefits with the online delivery being flexible for access, self-health, case-based assessments and useful nutrition and physical activity guides. Challenges for students included their time to do the modules and the activity expectations. Instructors felt each module could be better targeted to different years within an undergraduate program. Through developmental evaluation, the pilot results along with recommendations and lessons learned provided the direction needed to further develop the WellnessRx logic model and proposed learning modules.

Read the paper here.

DynaMed is a point-of-care tool for physicians and other health care professionals. This database is updated daily and provides evidence-based summaries about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, among many other factors. By entering the condition into the search box, summaries appear with links to access the full-text of the articles. There is also a mobile app version available!

Try DynaMed today by clicking on this link.

Questions? Feel free to contact the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library!

Visit Our Aboriginal Medicine Exhibit!
On display at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library until March 18!

Leslie Main Johnson, Professor of Anthropology, Centre for Social Science, Athabasca University, has provided books and artifacts in support of a recent conference, "Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge and Northern Community Well-Being", which was  held at Bernard Snell Hall and the John W. Scott Library from February 18-22, 2015.

Star Kart - A space of therapeutic engagement where children are virtually engaged thanks to a playful video. Learning how to drive a motorized wheelchair can be a real challenge for a young child in re-adaptation. This is where Star Kart enters. First developed in the 2014 Hacking Health Hackathon in Montreal, Star Kart is a game aiming to teach how to drive a motorized wheelchair through the virtual immersion of the child. This ludic environment will enable the child to really learn at his/her own pace, all the while being in an engaging, safe, and realistic environment. 

Article courtesy of the Hacking Health newsletter