MHIKNET: Orientation & Training

Orientation and Training

Do you want to learn more about what MHIKNET can do for you?

Are you planning a staff meeting, health conference, continuing professional development day, or other educational event?
We can:​

• Provide orientation and information sessions on MHIKNET.
• Teach you how to find reliable and authoritative health information.
• Create custom training sessions on how to use information and evidence.
• Supply brochures and promotional material about our services.
• Bring our MHIKNET library services booth to your conference or meeting and showcase materials tailored to your theme.

Request a Custom Session

Email: mhiknet@umanitoba.ca

Tel: 1-877-789-3804

Fax: (204) 789-3923

MHIKNET Education Recordings

MHIKNET offers regular education sessions in-person and via webinar. See recordings of recent webinars below. If you would like a copy of the slides or handout for this presentation, please contact us for copies.

• CADTH, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (recorded February 13, 2019)
• Choosing Wisely Manitoba (recorded September 10, 2020)
• Consumer Health Resources (recorded July 22, 2020)
• Critical Appraisal: The Basics (recorded February 12, 2020)
• Data stories - Using data visualization and effective PowerPoints to tell your research story (recorded March 18, 2021)
• Everything You Need to Know About UpToDate (recorded November 4, 2020)
• Googling for Good Evidence (recorded March 10, 2023)
• Keeping Current (recorded October 16, 2019)
• Hands on With Maps (recorded April 11, 2019)
• Healthcare Apps (recorded August 23, 2018) 
• Introduction to GIS in the Health Sciences (recorded October 22, 2018)
• Introduction to MHIKNET and UpToDate (recorded December 12, 2024)
• Introduction to Searching for Online Government Information (recorded August 28, 2019)
• Maximizing Evidence Based Practice in your Healthcare Practice (recorded March 11, 2019)
• Open Educational Resources (recorded October 7, 2020)
• Perils of Predatory Publishing (recorded March 17, 2020) 
• Preprints 101 (recorded April 13, 2021)
• Pubmed (recorded February 16, 2021)
• Reference Management (recorded March 2018) 
• Searching for Health Information (recorded January 29, 2025)
• Searching for Indigenous Health Information (recorded Feb 21, 2025)
• Searching for Images (recorded August 24, 2021)
• Social Media in your Healthcare Practice (recorded January 23, 2019)

You may also be interested in the following online course by the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

• Finding and Using Health Statistics (announced April 3, 2019)