Literature Searching with PubMed – Advanced (25H04213c)
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Course Information
- Date
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Thursday, October 23, 2025,
2:00 PM till 4:00 PM - Registration Opens
- June 2, 2025
- Registration Deadline
- October 20, 2025, 8:00 AM
- Course Fees
- free
- 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 course builds on the course “Basics in Literature Searching: 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:
- Defining questions; Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT); contents of PubMed
- Thesaurus; search with Medical Subject Headings (with exercises)
- Search with text words and field search; truncating (with exercises)
- Combining MeSH and text-word searches (with exercises)
- Saving and managing searches; personal settings, alert services
- Export of references and access to full texts via SFX
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", 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.