Front line health workers (2)
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Dear Afro-netters,
Today, I have passed on copies of e-mail messages about this topic to
Dr Bewes (the author of CME documents), who was happy about Helga's
clarification. Let me add/emphasise the following:
a) CME materials: These materials are not academic - they are practi-
cal, simplified, well illustrated and the details are just enough
for the target audience. All health workers in Uganda understand
English, so the language too is not a problem. The materials are
not designed primarily for the communities.
b) The Digests: In every Digest, there is a form for full article re-
quests. Health workers do use this form to send requests for full
articles which we send to them. In fact, the issue of full docu-
ment arrangement was high on the agenda during the preparations
and actual implementation of the "updating service" if I can
borrow Helga's words. Furthermore, our (Albert Cook Library) Di-
gest, which started this year after the transfer of Robert Kakembo
from here to the Education library, do include abstracts from both
the international data bases and from our local data base which
contributes to AIM.
We do need real practical experience of those involved in the provi-
sion of health information at grassroots level. I look forward to
getting comments about this.
Maria Musoke
Deputy University Librarian - Medical
Albert Cook Medical Library
Makerere Univ. Medical School
P.O.Box 7072 Kampala. Uganda.
Fax: +256-41-530024
mailto:mmusoke@uga.healthnet.org
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