Do you have the feeling you can find too many or just too few scientific articles in PubMed? Are the articles you find often irrelevant? Do you feel you are losing a lot of time in your literature search? Then do not hesitate to enroll.

Learning outcomes of the course

Upon completion of this course, participants will have

• an understanding of which source is most suitable for which research question and goal,
• an understanding of indexing and the assets of using the index terms while searching,
• an understanding of stemming and lemmatization,
• the skills to perform a time-efficient search for (the latest) literature,
• the skills to use this database for a systematic review,
• the skills to efficiently use the unique features of the source in order to enhance retrieval of information

Format

Blended learning (for each of the modules), entirely online

• instruction videos explaining the theory and including demo searches (approximately 1h) will be available at Ufora to watch at their own pace
• an exercise to perform at their own pace (approximately 1h)
• discussion of the exercise and question and answer session with teacher (1h) + quiz (10 min) at the end of the session

Teacher: Nele Pauwels (Information Specialist Knowledge Centre for Health Ghent)

Registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/NEXTmedline