Pop Health: PubMed Training 7/25/2023

Colleen Duchon, MLIS

• Office: L-215 (in the library)
• Email: cduchon@neomed.edu
• Phone: 330-325-6378

Biostatistics, Epidemiology/Population Health, & Interpretation of the Medical Literature

• Study design, types and selection of studies (includes dependent/independent variables)

AAMC Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency

• EPA 7: Form Clinical Questions and Retrieve Evidence to Advance Patient Care

Population Health

July 25, 2023

• New to PubMed - Complete the basic PubMed tutorials prior to class on July 25th.
• Everyone Prior to Class - Watch the short pre-class lecture video and read the Flaherty article.

  • Pre-Class Lecture Video in CANVAS

    TOPIC: - Advanced PubMed Training Lecture (Asynchronous - Watch prior to class)

    FACULTY: Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS

TOPIC: PubMed Workshop and PubMed Assignment

FACULTY: Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS
GUEST FACULTY: Marilia Antunez, MLS, MA, Diane DeLuco, MLIS, MS, Shelley Harrell, Ph.D.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE PRE-CLASS LECTURE VIDEO AND LIVE ADVANCED TRAINING SESSION, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Explain the purpose of PubMed and discuss the ways that it can be searched.
• Discuss how P-PICO can be used to create a clinical questions.
• Search PubMed and find relevant research and review articles that could answer your clinical question.
• Search for and distinguish between research and review articles. 
• Describe the types of clinical questions and which are the preferred study designs for research articles
• Distinguish between a narrative review article, a systematic review, and a meta-analysis
• Demonstrate PubMed searches using authors, keywords, Boolean operators, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), PubMed ID, and filters.
• Use P-PICO to create a clinical question based upon a clinical case discussed in class.
• Practice accessing online articles and citing articles, and sign-up for ILLiad (library’s Inter-Library Loan service).

BRING TO CLASS: Your laptop

ASSIGNED READING: A Simple Method for Evaluating the Clinical Literature article by Robert J. Flaherty, MD PP-ICONS article: Flaherty R. A simple method for evaluating the clinical literature. Fam Pract Manag. 2004;11(5):47-52.

CLASS RESOURCES:

• Difference between a research article and a review article

Why should you learn to be effective searching PubMed?

You will use PubMed all four years of the medicine curriculum. You need to be able to quickly and effectively use it to find relevant articles for assignments.

• All M1 students should be able to:
  • Search PubMed by:
    • author
    • keywords
    • using Boolean operators
    • PubMed ID
    • MeSH (medical subject headings)
  • Use filters to make your search results more specific
    • Including restricting by:
      • article type
      • restrict by publication date
      • species
      • age
  • Be able to access online articles via the NEOMED library
  • Be signed up for ILLiad (Library's interlibrary loan service)
  • Know how My NCBI can help you save and share your search results
  • Cite an article using PubMed's citation tool

If the above list is new to use, we encourage you to come to the online session.  

ASSESSMENTS:

• In-class, open book PubMed assignment - due at 5 pm on July 28th via the CANVAS assignment tool