Advanced PubMed

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

• Show how to search for keywords in an article title. 
• Know the format for doing an author search.
• Show how to search for words or phrases in fields using the Preview/ Index tab.
• Be able to limit to subsets within PubMed: Nursing Journals, Complementary Medicine, Dental Journals, AIDS, Bioethics, etc. 
• Demonstrate complex searches (using the HISTORY tab): combining using multiple “ORs” & "ANDs".
• Be familiar with some Evidence-Based Medicine searching:
• Demonstrate limiting a search to Clinical Trials and Meta-analyses.
• Demonstrate evidence-based medicine search filters in Clinical Queries.
• Find a specific reference with incomplete information using the Single Citation Matcher on the sidebar.
• Locate a journal by using one word from the title in the Journals Database.
• Demonstrate finding materials written for the patient or family on Cystic Fibrosis from MedlinePlus (Consumer Health on the left sidebar).
• Demonstrate how to find a clinical trial for breast cancer in North Carolina (ClinicalTrials.gov on the left sidebar)
• Explore the Clinical Alerts feature on the left sidebar.
• Explain the significance of a clinical alert.
• Know how to search a topic within PubMed Central.
• Explain that PubMed Central is a fraction (the free online fraction) of the medical literature

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PubMed Tutorials
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
This tutorial can be used in its entirety or users may select the following individual sections:

• PubMed Overview
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1004.html
  Gives and overview of PubMed and MeSH Vocabulary
• Using PubMed
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2001.html
  Learn to navigate PubMed's home page, use the sidebar to access PubMed services and resources, enter queries to search, understand and use Boolean operators, and understand how PubMed optimizes your search strategy.
• Working with Search Results
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m3001.html
  This module shows how to use the Search Results screen and the various Action Bar selections that allow you to manipulate your search results. By the end of this module, you should be able to: understand the layout of the search results screen, change the display format of the retrieved citations, adjust the number of citations displayed on a page, move between pages of results, sort your results, save and view selected citations, print citations, and save your search strategy.
• Features Tab
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4001.html
  Shows how to use Limits, History, Preview/Index, Clipboard, and Details.
• My NCBI
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4101.html
  Shows how to register, store searches, and edit user preferences.
• Introduction to Links
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m5001.html
  Shows how to use links to Related Articles, Links, LinkOut, NCBI Databases, and Books.
• PubMed Services
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m6001.html
  Shows how to use the MeSH Database, Journals Database, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries
• Search Field Descriptions
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m7001.html 

PubMed Animated Tutorials

• Searching with the MESH Database
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/searching/mesh1.html
• Combining MESH Terms
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/combining/mesh2.html
• Subheadings and other Features of the MESH Database
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/subheadings/mesh3.html
• Searching PubMed for an Author
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/author/author.html
• Retrieving Citations from a Journal Issue
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/scm/scmissue_viewlet_swf.html
• Simple Search Example
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/subject/subject.html 

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