Literature Searching with PubMed – Advanced (24H04213c)
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Course Information
- Date
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025,
2:00 PM till 4:00 PM - Registration Opens
- December 1, 2024
- Registration Deadline
- May 7, 2025, 8:00 AM
- Course Fees
- kostenlos
- Trainer
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Dr. Thomas Fürst
- Organized by
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University Medical Library
CH-4051 Basel
Tel. 061 207 32 46
info-medb@unibas.ch
Content
This advanced course expands on the content of the course “Basics in Literature Search with PubMed and Other Resources”. It will deepen and complement your knowledge on the important search functions needed for a specific and comprehensive medical literature search. You will learn to build a systematic search strategy by extracting keywords (MeSH) and text words from references. Tips and tricks, as well as saving and exporting search strategies and search results will be shared.
Contents:
- Brief repetition: Defining the question; Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT); contents of PubMed
- Thesaurus; searching with Medical Subject Headings (with exercise)
- Searching with text words / field search / truncation (with exercise)
- Combining MeSH and text-word searches (with exercise)
- Saving and managing searches; personal settings, alert services
- Export of references and access to full texts via swisscovery
Target Group
Anyone interested in learning complex search methods with PubMed: e.g. students, researchers and medical staff/clinicians.
Requirements
Basic knowledge of database searching (corresponding to the content of the course "Basics in Literature Searching: PubMed and Other Resources" 24H04212c, which is publicly advertised and taught to medical students as a lecture in the 5th semester).
Feature
Note for medical students: This course corresponds in content to the PubMed lecture that takes place during POEM.