The last day to apply for the upcoming Naturally Slim session is Friday, Jan. 17.

Naturally Slim is an online behavior modification program that teaches you how to lose weight while eating the foods you love. The next session kicks off Monday, Feb. 3, and is available at no cost to all UT SELECT medical plan members age 18 and above, including employees, retirees, spouses and dependents.

Those selected for the program will be notified on Friday, Jan. 24.

Apply today at www.naturallyslim.com/livingwell.

Please join Benefits Services on Thursday, January 23 for our Retiree Benefits Meeting. This meeting is scheduled from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Rebecca Sealy Hospital, Room 1.126. This meeting is designed to assist you in the retirement process by providing information regarding your benefits as a University of Texas Medical Branch retiree.

Use this link to register: http://mytraining.utmb.edu/

Seating is limited to the first 30 participants to respond. Please note: you must access registration through Google Chrome.

Your registration will be processed through the UTMB Learn system. Sign in with your LAN user name and password by following these steps.

•Click on UTMB Learn located Administrative Systems

•Sign in with user name/ password (The same as your regular computer login)

•In the search box located at the top of screen type Retiree Benefits Meeting and click enter

•Click on the Retiree Benefits Meeting with the desired date of attendance •Under Enrollments select Retiree Benefits Meeting

•Click Enroll

You will receive a message in GREEN indicating you have successfully enrolled.

Date: January 23, 2020

Times: 11:30-1:00 or 3:30-5:00

Location: Moody Medical Library Carruth Computer Lab 233

Presenters: Kathleen M. Everling, PhD, Holly West DHED, PA-C & Mary Jo Urbani, MS

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create their own interactive online learning content using SoftChalk Create.  Modules can then be uploaded to SoftChalk Cloud, for delivery anywhere, anytime, and on any device.  Participants will create activities and integrate media to engage the digital learner. 

To see sample SoftChalk lessons, go to: https://softchalk.com/sample-lessons-by-discipline/

Objective: By the end of this workshop, participants will create a document in SoftChalk Create with at least an image,

hyperlink, video, learning activity and table of contents.

Participants will complete the following activities:

•  Copy information from a Word document into SoftChalk Create
•  Insert text, headings, hyperlinks, images and videos into their document
•  Insert a learning activity and quiz question into their document
•  Create a table of contents for their document
•  Upload their document to SoftChalk Cloud

Are you a SharePoint site owner, power user or someone who just wants to learn all things SharePoint? Please join the SharePoint transition team and our vendor partners for an in-depth training session on allocating access permissions and the “ins and outs” of enabling access to content within SharePoint. This online-only Skype presentation will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 23rd, and will cover topics like permission strategies, inheritance, assigning user roles and individual sharing permissions. The session will be recorded and made available later on the Office 365 web site. We hope you can attend!

Skype link:
Join Skype Meeting
https://meet.utmb.edu/techtalk/8SQ62ZQ9
 
Join by Phone
Number: 409-266-2120
Conference ID: 785650

The John P. McGovern
Academy of Oslerian Medicine
invites you to a

Meeting of the 92nd UTMB Osler Club
(Dedicated to the application of Oslerian principles to
contemporary medicine and medical education.)

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Eaton Hall at Trinity Episcopal Church
22nd Street & Winnie, Galveston, TX

Dialogue and Dinner:
“Can Osler’s Approach to Medicine Survive?
A Missionary Doctor’s View”

Featuring:
Jon F. Fielder, MD
Co-Founder and Chief Executive, African Mission Healthcare
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine
The University of Texas Medical Branch

A light buffet supper will be served. Admission is free, but space is limited. Reservations are required.
For reservations, or to register for CME credit, contact the McGovern Academy at:
mcacadem@utmb.edu or (409) 747-9680. The deadline is January 21, 2020.
___________________________________

Educational Method: Lecture

Target Audience: All members of the UTMB and surrounding communities.

Objectives:
1. To assess, from the perspective of a missionary doctor, whether “Osler’s approach to medicine [is] viable in the long run,” in the words of his biographer Michael Bliss.
2. To analyze the current state of African medical education from the standpoint of Osler’s approach to clinical instruction.
    a. To question the ethics of Western humanitarian approaches in light of the ethical imperative to build local capacity.
3. To analyze Osler’s holistic ethical approach to patient care in the context of modern corporatist medicine.
    a. To argue that missionary medicine allows space for Osler’s ethical vision.

Disclosure Statement (Speaker): Dr. Fielder has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Disclosure Statement (Planning Committee Members): Drs. Jack Alperin and Dwight V. Wolf; and Mrs. Brenda Johnson have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Accreditation: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Ethics: This presentation meets the Texas Medical Board criteria for 1 hour of formal CME in Medical Ethics/Professional Responsibility.