Pop Health: PubMed Training 7/24/2023

Population Health

July 26, 2022

• New to PubMed - Complete the basic PubMed tutorials prior to class on July 26th.
• 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
    GUEST FACULTY: 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:

  • Demonstrate PubMed searches using authors, keywords, Boolean operators, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), PubMed ID, and filters.
  • Use P-PICO to create a clinical question
  • Search PubMed and find relevant articles for an assigned clinical case
  • Access online articles, cite 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.

• Do I need to come to the online session? 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.  

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS:

• Open book PubMed assignment - due at 5 pm on July 28th via the CANVAS assignment tool

Online, Synchronous Session:

TOPIC: PubMed Practice 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:

• Demonstrate PubMed searches using authors, keywords, Boolean operators, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), PubMed ID, and filters.
• Use P-PICO to create a clinical question
• Search PubMed and find relevant articles for an assigned clinical case
• Access online articles, cite articles, and sign-up for ILLiad (library’s Inter-Library Loan service).

BRING TO CLASS: Your laptop

ASSIGNED READING: None

CLASS RESOURCES:

• See the Citing Resources guide for citation examples
• Difference between a research article and a review article

ASSIGNED READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CLASS: none

ASSESSMENTS:

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