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PubMed Training Course: Evidence-Based Practice
This is an excellent tutorial demonstrating how to search for evidence-based practice articles in PubMed.
NOTE: this tutorial does not link to EFSC's PubMed Portal. If you want to practice the exercises in the tutorial, open a separate window for the EFSC PubMed Portal. Using the EFSC PubMed Portal will link you to the free full text of articles in the EFSC Library's online collections.
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Learning Objectives for this training course:
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Accurately and precisely describe your clinical question using PICO
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Convert your research question into search terms for PubMed
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Check that medical terms in your search map to Medical Subject Headings
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Use appropriate filters to refine your search results set
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Use Clinical Queries to limit results to clinically relevant literature
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Find full text linked from PubMed
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Identify your library as a source for full text articles
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Find the “My NCBI” link and recognize that as a place to store searches and citations
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Identify your librarian as a source for search assistance
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Find the PubMed Online Training page and specific tutorials relevant for continuing your training