Do you want to explore the additional features of searching in Ovid MEDLINE instead of PubMed? Do you want to prepare yourself for an international career where this interface is used much more frequently? 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 (1h)
• discussion of the exercise and question and answer session with teacher (1h) + quiz (10 min) at the end of the session

Registration: https://event.ugent.be/registration/ovidmedl

Teacher: Muguet Koobasi (Information Officer Knowledge Centre for Health Ghent)