Data Services Specialization Course List

Courses approved for the DSS Basic level are listed below, with the credit amount and the DSS skill area each addresses.

Click here to view all courses in MEDLIB-ED, approved for DSS. If a course link is bad, DSS approval has expired. Please contact the MLA's Professional Development Department for more information.

If you complete an educational activity that is not listed below and would like to have it considered as part of your application, please fill out an Individual Participant Request (IPR) form.

Use the DSS Tracking Grid to ensure that you take courses in the required skill areas.

NLM is reconfiguring its webpages. If the link to an NLM course you are interested in doesn't work, please go here to find more information: https://nnlm.gov/training. (8/30/21)

Title	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	Cr
REGISTER FOR COURSE IN MEDLIB-ED
REQUIRED
Research Data Management: Data Sharing & Publishing
Research Data Management Data Security Storage & Preservation
Research Data Management Curation & Documentation
Research Data Management Open Science & Data Science
CHOOSE 3 credits in each of the five areas from the courses below
A Bird's Eye View of Health Data Standards On Demand	x				x	1
Active Learning Strategies for Effective and Engaging Instruction					x	1.5
Aligning the Three Pillars of Effective Instruction: Outcomes,Teaching, & Assessment for HS Librarians					x	1.5
Approaching Resistance to Change in Research Data Management		x			x	1
Beyond Research Data Management for Biomedical & Health Sciences Librarians - Feb-April 2020	x	x	x	x	x	36
Common Data Elements: Standardizing Data Collection	x		x			1
Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research			x	x		1.5
Data Analytics Research Training Fellowship	x		x	x	x	40
Data Literacy for the Busy Librarian	x		x	x	x	4
Drug Terminologies and RxNorm					x	1
Getting Started with Statistics for Librarians				x	x	1.5
Go Red! REDCap for Library Data Services and Data Collection	x		x	x	x	1.5
Introduction to Data Management	x	x	x		x	1.5
Introduction to Evaluating Public Datasets using FAIR Data Principles	x		x	x	x	1.5
MLA Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians	x		x	x		48
NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Ethical Issues in Citizen Science Research	x			x		1
NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Better than Best Practices: Inclusive Data Visualization	X		X			1
NNLM Research Data Management: If You Share It, Will They Come? Quantifying and Characterizing Reuse of Biomedical Research Data			x			1
NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: RDM and vulnerable populations	x		x			1
NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: The Charts are Off: Approaches to Ethical Decision-Making in Data Visualization	x		x			1
NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Supporting Open Science in Health Science Libraries: Sharing Strategies for Sustainability and Success	x	x	x			1
Tell Your Research Story: Visualization, Design, and Messaging	x					1.5
The Diversity of Data Management: Practical Approaches for Health Sciences Librarianship		x	x	x	x	1.5
The MLA Guide to Instructional Design Basics					x	1.5
Thinking in 3D: An Introduction to Medical Imaging and 3D-printing	x					3
Using Data for Decision-Making: An Environmental Scan Case Study		x		x		1
Visualize Your Data: Tableau for Health Sciences Librarians		x			x	1.5
What’s in a Data Story? Understanding the Basics of Data Storytelling	x		x	x		1
Working Open: An Overview of Open Source Research Tools		x		x	x	1.5
REGISTER ON COURSE WEBSITE
ACRL RDM Roadshow: Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work		x	x	x	x	8
Analytical Solutions to Common Healthcare Problems			x	x		11
Best Practices for Biomedical Research Data Management	x		x	x		20
Data Management for Clinical Research			x	x		20
Data Science Fundamentals	x			x		4
Healthcare Data Literacy					x	13
Healthcare Data Quality and Governance	x					12
Introduction to Clinical Data Science				x	x	7
Research Data Management & Sharing			x	x	x	14
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA)	x	x	x	x	x	16.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 1	x		x			1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 2				x		1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 5		x				1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 6				x		1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 8	x					1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 9					x	1.5
Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Module 11	x			x		1.5

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