Literature Searching with PubMed – Advanced

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
- Brief repetition: Defining the question; Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT); contents of PubMed
- Thesaurus; searching with Medical Subject Headings (with exercise)
- Searching with text words / field search / truncation (with exercise)
- Combining MeSH and text-word searches (with exercise)
- Saving and managing searches; personal settings, alert services
- Export of references and access to full texts via swisscovery

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

Requirements
Basic knowledge of database searching (corresponding to the content of the course "Basics in Literature Searching: PubMed and Other Resources" 24H04212c, which is publicly advertised and taught to medical students as a lecture in the 5th semester).

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

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