Healthcare quality professionals at UTMB Health will promote Joint Commission Awareness, Oct.17-24. As part of the week, UTMB’s Department of Quality & Healthcare Safety has planned events on all three campuses and throughout UTMB’s ambulatory locations to promote quality and raise awareness of Joint Commission standards. Event dates are as follows:

• Galveston Campus – Oct. 17 from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Oct. 18 from 2 to 6 p.m. in Jennie Sealy Hospital, 4th Floor
• Angleton Danbury Campus – Oct. 24 and Oct. 26 from 7 a.m. to noon, Angleton Danbury, 2nd Floor
• League City Campus – Oct. 19 from noon to 6 p.m., League City Hospital, 3rd Floor (classroom)
• Ambulatory locations will celebrate in conjunction with the above days and times

Events include prize drawings and freebies for participants.

UTMB’s Center for Environmental Toxicology, the Institute for Translational Sciences and the Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine invite you to participate in a conversation about Emergency Response: Getting Prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse at Mod Coffeehouse in downtown Galveston on Thursday, October 19th, 2017 from 5:30-6:30pm.

This conversation features UTMB Program Director of Institutional Preparedness, Mike Mastrangelo in the Department of Facilities Risk Management as well as Galveston County Office of Emergency Management’s Garrett Foskit, who is an Emergency Management Coordinator. Please join us as we explore and discuss the current knowledge and research revolving around the importance of Emergency Response.

SCI Café is a community dialogue about science, health and possibilities among community members, researchers and scientists. The purpose is to engage and connect community members with science and science with the local community. Topics for SCI Cafés are driven by community learning interests and discovery from UTMB faculty.

Employees may now access UTMB Learn from any web-enabled device to complete their annual required training.

The institution’s new learning management system was developed to enhance the delivery and direction of our employee training programs, and it will allow you to track and complete all training assignments through a single operating platform.

To log on to UTMB Learn and to receive your required training courses and activities for FY18, follow these steps.

1. Go to https://learn.utmb.edu
2. Enter your UTMB user name and password
3. Complete the My Profile questionnaire based on your role and responsibilities
4. Once you have finished the questionnaire, refresh your screen and go to My Required Training to view and complete the training courses and activities assigned to you

You may also refer to the UTMB Learn User Guide and UTMB Learn FAQs for more information on the new system.

For questions about UTMB Learn or your required training courses and activities, please contact the HR Talent and Organizational Development team at (409) 747-6700 or hrtalent@utmb.edu.

For technical assistance with the system, please contact the UTMB Service Desk at (409) 772-5200, (888) 898-2401 or ishelp@utmb.edu.