Thursday, May 11, 2017

May Med School Café- Locating Consumer Health Information

The May Med School Café lecture will feature Rachel Fenske, assistant librarian and information services/outreach librarian at the University of South Alabama Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library.

Her lecture, titled “Locating Consumer Health Information from the National Library of Medicine,” will be held on May 26, 2017, at the USA Health Strada Patient Care Center Conference Room on the first floor. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m., and the presentation begins at noon.

Fenske will discuss how to locate web-based resources that provide helpful and accurate medical information from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Fenske earned her bachelor of arts in communications from USA, and a master of library service degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She is a member of the Alabama Health Libraries Association, Medical Library Association and the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association.

The Med School Café lecture and lunch are provided free of charge, but reservations are required. For more information or to make reservations, call Kim Partridge at (251) 460-7770 or e-mail kepartridge@health.southalabama.edu.

Med School Café is a free community lecture series sponsored by the USA Physicians Group. Each month, faculty from the USA College of Medicine share their expertise on a specific medical condition, providing insight on the latest treatment available.

The USA Health Strada Patient Care Center is located at 1601 Center St. in Mobile. For more information, click here.