Advanced Ovid MEDLINE

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this class, the student will be able to:

• Combine More Than Two Topics – complex searches using “and” and multiple “or’s”
• Search for Words in a Title
• Search Fields/Indexes
• Use Evidence Based Medicine Limits
• Clinical Queries
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• Systematic Reviews
• Search for an Author        
• Search for a Specific Article
• Repeat a Search in Another Database – adjusting for differences in subject headings 

Ovid Tutorials

·         General Ovid Searching
http://www.ovid.com/site/help/ovid_tutorials.jsp

·           Ovid Medline

• Duke Medical Library Ovid Medline Tutorial
  http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid
• Boston University Medical Center Ovid Medline Tutorial
  http://www.medlib.bu.edu/tutorials/ovid/
• Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries Ovid Tutorial
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/workshops/ovidmedtut.htmld/ovidtutor1.html.htmld/ovidtutor1.html

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