International Collaboration
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to
- Explain the need for high information security for academic or hospital settings
- List three details to add to an email correspondence to ensure delivery and differentiate from spam or predatory emails
- Differentiate between a predatory and a legitimate journal/publisher
Name one online resource that can be used to identify a relevant high-quality peer-reviewed academic journal
Intended Audience:
This online course is designed for pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, researchers and other healthcare providers and educators.
Abstract:
This online course focuses on skills that support international collaboration in health sciences research and clinical practice. The first half of the course focuses on how to most effectively reach out to colleagues abroad by better understanding their institutional digital security practices and how to craft your email to avoid being marked as spam by an algorithm or perceived as spam by your recipient. The second half focuses more on scholarly communication and information about the academic publishing landscape that including the Open Access movement and distinguishing predatory journals from high-quality open-access journals relevant to your research.
Assessment and Earning CME Credit:
This course in English is not CME-accredited. However, it provides valuable educational content that can enhance your knowledge and skills in the subject matter. To receive CME credit for this course in Armenia, you must take the course in Armenian and complete the post-course quiz. You have three chances to achieve a passing score of 70%. Once you pass the quiz, we will send your information to the Armenian Ministry of Health for credits.
Lynn Kysh, MLIS, MPP
Lynn Kysh is a health sciences librarian with over a decade of experience which has included working in the academic setting at the University of Southern California and the clinical setting as the solo librarian at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She received her Master of Library & Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2012 and her Master of Public Policy from the same institution in 2020. Lynn currently leads the Research and Health Sciences team of librarians and library staff that provides specialized research guidance to faculty, graduate students and other researchers across UC Davis and UC Davis Health. The department supports One Health education and clinical scholarship, and operates Blaisdell Medical Library. Her professional interests include improving the quality of evidence syntheses, contributing to clinical informatics training in low- and middle-income countries, and promoting clinician wellbeing through the incorporation of the arts and humanities in education and practice.
