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LIFE SCIENCES LIBRARY PubMed Workshop Basis of Medicine Unit 2 October 2012
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LIFE SCIENCES LIBRARY
PubMed Workshop
Basis of Medicine Unit 2 October 2012
What do you know about PubMed?
“Unfiltered” information tool – contains individual studies
Good for answering foreground questionsProduced by the U.S. National Library of
MedicineFunded by U.S. taxpayersOpen for anyone to useContains over 22 million citations (as of Oct
1)
Objectives
By the end of this PubMed workshop, you will be able to construct an effective search and locate articles using:
1. MeSH headings2. MeSH subheadings3. AND operator4. PubMed filters5. Publishers’ links or “Find it @
McGill” links
Give it a try
You’re preparing for a class on disabilities
impacting people living with AIDS. Find
articles
in PubMed on hearing loss for people with
AIDS.
A. Bird Diseases B. Neutropenia
Which Subject Heading Explodes?
Practice finding MeSH terms
St. John’s WortUpper extremity
Using subheadings
You observe a patient with chronic fatigue
syndrome, and you want to know more about
the research on possible causes
Narrowing the search
You observe a patient with multiple sclerosis
suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.
Find articles on possible causes of chronic
fatigue in MS.
Using Filters
Sara is a 70 year old patient with breast
cancer. You are wondering about the use of
tamoxifen for this patient. Find articles
discussing the use of tamoxifen in older
breast cancer patients.
Putting it all together
You’re working in a community clinic and
have seen many older adults at risk for
developing type 2 diabetes. As a research
project, you want to test the effectiveness of a
patient education program for adults 65 years
and older to prevent this disease. Find out if
any similar projects have been reported in
the literature.
Assignment Prep
George is a 40 year old obese man diagnosed
with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. You
would like to see if diet therapy is an option
for him.
Assignment
Three questions based on one case scenarioTo be completed individuallyDue by 5 pm on October 30, 2012Submitted to Dean’s office, 6th Floor of
McIntyreQuestions?
Contact Robin Featherstone [email protected]
