With the launch of New PubMed, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has revamped their learning resources to reflect the changes, additions, and upgrades to the PubMed interface. One of the new courses they have launched is Using PubMed for Evidence-Based Practice. This course replaces the former PubMed for Nurses course, to provide training for all clinicians wanting to conduct evidence-based research. This new course includes a variety of scenarios and hands-on exercises, as well as additional exercises.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Accurately and precisely describe your clinical question using PICO
- Convert your research question into search terms for PubMed
- Check that medical terms in your search map to Medical Subject Headings
- Use appropriate filters to refine your search results set
- Use Clinical Queries to limit results to clinically relevant literature
- Find full text linked from PubMed
- Identify your library as a source for full text articles
- Find the “My NCBI” link and recognize that as a place to store searches and citations
- Identify your librarian as a source for search assistance
- Find the PubMed Online Training page and specific tutorials relevant for continuing your training