Well the entries are rolling in thick and fast (literally). Congratulations
to all the imaginative individuals who have contributed to date - definitely
a task to occupy your minds during this week. Here are more of my own
illustrative examples:

Asthmatic (Ass-Matic) - Automated Bidet
DNA (Dinnae) - Don't know (Scottish - v. rare)
Eczema (Ex-Ma) - Former Mother-in-Law
Gonad (Go and add) - Become an accountant
Groin (Growin') - getting bigger (West Midlands)
Pathologist (Path-ologist) - Landscape gardener
Pleural (Plural) - still in possession of both lungs
Rheumatic (Room-Attic) - Loft Conversion
Spine (Spyin') - Looking over your neighbour's fence (West Midlands)
Urine (You're In) - Your romantic advances have been successful  

Select your own best five definitions and submit them in an email (no
attachments please) to [log in to unmask] by midnight, 30th December
2005. See below for full details. A £ 20 book token is on offer.
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With 11 successful completed programmes and the final course, Managing
Service Quality, already fully subscribed the FOLIO team at ScHARR would
like to thank the more than 400 UK health librarians who have participated
over the last two years.

A feature of every FOLIO course is a competition to offer some "light
relief". We would therefore like to invite the UK health library community
to share in our end of year competition. You do not have to have done a
FOLIO course to participate but eligibility for entry is the same as for
FOLIO - i.e. if you work in a UK health library that serves NHS staff
(charitable, NHS, academic, professional etc) you can join in. A £ 20 book
token is on offer for the best entry but hopefully you will all have some
fun as well. All entries received before 12 midnight on 30th December 2005
will be eligible.

The Facilitating Online Learning Interactive Opportunity is funded for UK
health librarians by the National Library for Health Continuing Professional
Development Programme.
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COMPETITION - An Alternative Medical Dictionary

Our competition takes its inspiration from the cult radio programme I'm
Sorry I Haven't A Clue (ISIHAC) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/) You are
asked to imagine that the medical/health dictionaries in your library are
becoming increasingly out-of-date. As a respected health information
specialist you are requested to supply 5 alternative definitions for some
common medical words of your choosing. The winner of the competition will be
the competitor who supplies   
the five most imaginative/humorous alternative definitions.

So, for example, my five (in my case first five not best five!) definitions
might be as follows: Acne ('Ackney) - Blackspot in Central London
Cardiologist (Cardy-ologist) - Specialist who studies traditional librarian
knitwear Enema (Emina) - Scatological White Rap star Folic Acid
(Foe-Lick-Ass-ed) - Having administered a jolly good beating to one's enemy
Oesophagus (Ee-Sophagus) - Stone coffin for Yorkshire mummies

You get the idea......

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
1. Compile your list of alternative definitions. You can do this with
friends, colleagues, customers etcetera but there will only be one book
token! 2. Select your best five definitions and submit them in an email (no
attachments please) to [log in to unmask] by midnight, 30th December
2005. You may submit any number of entries but they must only be in SETS OF
FIVE. 3. The set of five definitions awarded the most points for originality
and humour will receive a prize of a £ 20 book token - the judge's decision
is final. 4. A cumulative list of those alternative definitions fit to print

Judging will be done by my beautiful assistant Samantha who is ready with a
piece of chalk at our laser-powered weblog. [Message abbreviated according
to Connecting For Health Communication Guidelines].

Best wishes for the coming year from all at the FOLIO team

***Look out for a FOLIO CD early in 2006***

FYI - Plans are currently underway for an invitation to tender for further
FOLIO-type activity - the NLH will keep you posted with progress against
this tender.

Andrew Booth,
Director of Information Resources & Reader in Evidence Based Information
Practice,
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR),
University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, SHEFFIELD, S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 0705
Fax: 0114 272 4095
Email: [log in to unmask]