Presentation: Educating medical students using AI professors

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A lightning talk presentation was given by Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member Verena Van Fleet and others during the Virtual Symposium on AI at Duke University-NUS Medical School, June 6, 2024.
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The presentation included examples of questions and answers that assist medical students in brief summaries and board-style questions and provided examples.

Presentation: Essential elements for successful change management

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Presented at the Minnesota Library Association 2023 Annual Conference in St. Paul, MN.
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Change happens in all library settings. Do you have the skills to manage change successfully? Learn the essential elements of creating a change management plan that can apply to any change, big or small. Thoughtful and proactive planning for change leads to success. 

Presentation: Making an Impact on Your Collection Policies in a Post-Pandemic Era

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Presented at the Enhancing Quality Staff Symposium on May 30, 2024, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.
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Collection Development Policies are essential documents in all libraries. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed library user behavior and, subsequently, collection decisions. All library staff can play a role in ensuring these policies are effective and support the library’s mission. Learn why and how to develop and influence your library’s CDP in the modern era.

Presentation: Opioid settlement funds: a toolkit

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Session presentation at the 2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health held in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Settlements from lawsuits against some of the largest companies at the center of the opioid crisis will generate over $50 billion over the next 18 years. Recently published recommendations from RAND advocate using funds to increase public awareness and patient access to nonpharmacological therapies, including chiropractic care. Attendees will explore a range of opportunities to leverage settlement funding to support non-opioid pain management in their communities, and position chiropractic as an upstream prevention strategy in the ongoing opioid epidemic.

Presentation: Using opioid settlement funding to expand access to nonpharmacological therapies

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Session presentation at the 2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, held in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Settlements from lawsuits against some of the largest companies at the center of the opioid
crisis will generate over $50 billion over the next 18 years. Recently published
recommendations from RAND advocate using funds to increase public awareness and
patient access to nonpharmacological therapies, including chiropractic care. Attendees will
explore a range of opportunities to leverage settlement funding to support non-opioid pain
management in their communities, and position chiropractic as an upstream prevention
strategy in the ongoing opioid epidemic.

Presentation: Developing your authentic teaching self

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Session presentation at the May 3, 2024 ARLD Day at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, MN.
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Academic librarians are often called to teach one-shot and credit-bearing courses but often feel unprepared by the brief instruction they receive from their graduate programs.  Librarians who feel confident as subject experts may feel unsure about who they are as teachers. 
This presentation will go into the notion of teaching personas, including whether or not it’s important to have one and how to develop one that feels authentic.  We’ll discuss tools teachers use to develop a persona and their drawbacks. There will also be the opportunity to share your own journeys to developing as teachers.

Presentation: What does it take to be person-centered? behaviors, skills and competencies

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Speech given by Michele Maiers, Northwestern Health Sciences University Executive Director of Research and Innovation, during the 17th World Federation of Chiropractic Biennial Congress in association with the Australian Chiropractors Association. The conference was held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Center in Queensland, Australia, from October 11-13, 2023.
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Chiropractors often boast about high patient satisfaction, good clinical outcomes, and “always” having been patient-centered. While evidence supports those claims, it is worthwhile for us to pause and ask, “what does it take to be person-centered?”, especially given a dynamic and increasingly complex 21st-century social and healthcare climate. As with all aspects of patient care, revisiting the behaviors, skills, and competencies relative to person-centered care through the lens of contemporary best practices can result in better quality, high value care for the communities we serve.

Presentation: Head injuries workshop

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The presentation was given by Northwestern Health Sciences University chiropractor Jordan Knowlton-Key during the XXI International Interdisciplinary Congress of Chiropractic in 2019. The presentation consisted of two hours of didactic and four hours of hands-on learning workshops.

Presentation: Development and use of a comprehensive clinical internship dashboard

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Presentation entitled "Development and use of a comprehensive clinical internship dashboard" Presented at the World Federation of Chiropractic/Association of Chiropractic College's 11th Chiropractic education conference held at Logan University in St. Louis, November 2-5. 2011. Presented by Northwestern Health Sciences University alum and Dean, College of Chiropractic & Title IX Team, Dr. Katie Burns Ryan, Dr. Chris Petrie, and Dr. Chris Smoley.
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Chiropractic clinical internships at Northwestern Health Sciences University begin early in the program’s curriculum.  It is a hands-on learning experience that enhances students’ technical and patient care skills.  How this internship program was developed was presented. 

Presentation: Bridging the gap for incoming healthcare professional program students, Verena Van Fleet

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Presentation given by Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member Verena Van Fleet during the 2023 International Association of Medical Science Educators twenty-seventh annual conference in Cancun, Mexico.
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Students enter professional healthcare programs (PHP) with varying degrees of proficiency in basic sciences content knowledge from their various undergraduate programs, preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and different levels of clinical experiences. To adapt to possible gaps in knowledge from incoming students, PHPs offer different assortments of pre-matriculation and review materials. The idea is that these materials will bring the students to be on the same page when they start the program (through pre-matriculation materials) and throughout the curriculum (through review materials). These materials are even more important this year, with students coming out of the COVID pandemic which disrupted their learning in different ways leading to even greater knowledge gaps coming into PHPs.