Evidence-based Medicine I Course Guide (Archived): Week 2 9/18/18 - PubMed & ILLiad Resources

The Learning Center has hired a part-time ESL tutor from Kent State University’s Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) graduate program. This tutor, Amanda Balch, will collaborate with Learning Center staff, and faculty from both the COM and COP to offer one-on-one meetings to address students’ concerns with writing, communication, public speaking, field-specific vocabulary, and more.

Sessions will be held Tuesday and Thursday evenings throughout the academic year.

• You can sign up for a 30 minute session with Amanda, one-on-one, from 4:00-8:00 pm, while additional availability from 12-4 PM may become available as well. All sessions, including their specific location, are currently available for you to view and sign-up in AIMS.

We look forward to enhancing our support for ESL students throughout this semester and beyond. If you have any questions about these services, please contact Amanda Balch (abalch@neomed.edu).

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE I

WEEK 2

September 18, 2018

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Basic PubMed training: Complete the training if you are not an experienced PubMed user. Information from the training may be covered on the EBM I exam. Advanced training will be held during next today’s class. If you log-in to the videos, you will be asked questions at the end of each tutorial. These questions are similar to questions that may be on the exam.
• Sign up for ILLiad
• Optional Tertiary Resources assignment help session -  September 24th from 12-1 pm in room F-118.
• Bring clicker to class on September 25th.
• Quiz today – Topics include PubMed, your literature review topic, finding and citing your literature review articles.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS:

• Turn in the tertiary resources assignment and the literature review assignment via your drop box in the EBM I AIMS site.
• Tertiary Resources Assignment due at 5 pm on September 25th
• Literature Review is due at 5 pm on October 16^th

• Statistics/research design quiz on October 16^th

Hour 1

TOPIC 1: Health Sciences Tertiary Resources lecture

FACULTY: Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE LECTURE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Differentiate between primary, secondary, and tertiary resources
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing tertiary resources
• Evaluate the quality of tertiary resources
• Identify tertiary resources utilized by pharmacists and physicians to answer clinical information questions
• Discuss the components of the drug and herbal monographs
• Differentiate when clinical guidelines or journal articles should be consulted
• Differentiate when drug monographs or journal articles should be consulted

Tertiary Resources Assignment Information:

• You must use the resources in the Tertiary Resources assignment guide to complete your assignment.
• Your tertiary resources assignment is in your EBM I AIMS drop box.
• Tertiary Resources Assignment due at 5 pm on September 25^th. You can turn in the assignment early.
• Turn in your assignment via your EBM I AIMS drop box. Your graded assignment will be returned to you via your drop box.
• Assignment remediation: Any student receiving less than 70% on the assignment must remediate the assignment. They will be given ten additional questions to complete.
• Mac users – See the note in the assignment guide about converting the document form.

Test Your Knowledge: Tertiary Resources assignment.

Tertiary Resources Assignment FAQ:

• Where can I find my assignment? The assignment is in your EBM I drop box.
• What resources should I use for the assignment? See the tertiary resources assignment tab of this guide.

Test Your Knowledge: Practice questions will be placed in the class session folder in AIMS. These questions are for your own self-study and will not count toward your grade.

TOPIC 2: Use of PubMed in Clinical and Research Settings Part I

FACULTY: Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE LECTURE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Utilize MeSH to search for medical concepts
• Use the Filters to narrow a PubMed search
• Use P-PICO to create a clinical question
• Search PubMed and find relevant articles
• Download and order any articles needed for their literature review assignment
• Submit your paper topic and article citations

BRING TO CLASS: Your laptop and clicker

ASSIGNED READING: None

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:

• Greenhalgh’s How to Read Paper, Chapter 2

HOUR 2:

TOPIC: Use of PubMed in Clinical and Research Settings Part II

FACULTY: Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE LECTURE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Utilize MeSH to search for medical concepts
• Use the Filters to narrow a PubMed search
• Use P-PICO to create a clinical question
• Search PubMed and find relevant articles
• Download and order any articles needed for their literature review assignment
• Submit your paper topic and article citations

BRING TO CLASS: Your laptop and clicker

ASSIGNED READING: None

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:
Greenhalgh’s How to Read Paper, Chapter 2

CLASS RESOURCES:

• See Literature review assignment tab of the guide.
• See the Citing Resources guide for citation examples
• Difference between a research article and a review article

COMPLETE TODAY:

• Test Your Knowledge: Complete today’s quiz. The quiz will be placed in the folder with today's PowerPoint presentation. Place the quiz in your EBM I drop box when completed.

ASSIGNED READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CLASS: none