GD Star Rating
loading…
loading…
Each year, more than 70,000 Mayo Clinic patients and their family members and friends visit the Barbara Woodward Lips Patient Education Center. The Center houses a health information library with medical models and exhibits and offers classes taught by skilled patient education specialists. Patients have an opportunity to learn about specific medical conditions and healthy living.
Librarian Susan Mayer shares insight about the Center’s resources:
Visit the Center’s web site for more information.
Do you have a list of the resouces available at the resource center? I work at the Segal Cancer in Montreal Canada and would like to have some materials sent to me.
Hello Sandy,
The Patient Education Resource Center has reference books, consumer health books and a large collection of pamphlets and DVD’s developed here for Mayo patients and visitors. We also offer classes for Mayo patients on many health topics. There are more than 7000 items in our database, covering general wellness, specific diseases and conditions, and preparation for tests and procedures. There is a Cancer Education Center here as well, their webpage may be of interest to you. See the Stephen and Barbara Slaggie Family Cancer Education Center here: http://www.mayoclinic.org/cancer-education-rst/