Literature Searching with PubMed – Advanced (25H04213c) ONLINE

Kursinhalte

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

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

Anyone interested in learning complex search methods with PubMed: e.g. students, researchers and medical staff/clinicians.

Voraussetzungen

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).

Besonderheiten

Note for medical students: This course corresponds in content to the PubMed lecture that takes place during POEM.