PT & OT Deep Dive into PubMed Online
This session will cover in-depth and strategic searching using PubMed’s new interface. Following a step-by-step process, you’ll learn how to increase the relevancy of your results and gain more confidence with using PubMed to identify studies relevant to physiotherapy and occupational therapy contexts. The session will be hands-on and will feature examples relevant to your context as a physiotherapist/occupational therapist.
Learning outcomes:
- Identify key concepts relevant to a specific search question
- Translate key concepts to appropriate Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Run searches using field codes (e.g. Title/Abstract)
- Combine searches with OR to increase results, AND to decrease results
- Apply filters to narrow results
- Manipulate presentation of search results to view abstract and full-text options
- Collect relevant articles
- Date:
- Thursday, June 18, 2020
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Atlantic Time (change)
- Zone:
- All Zones
- Categories:
- Library Services Online
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent in an email confirming your registration.
*** BEFORE YOU REGISTER ***
To participate in an online session, you will need to meet the following requirements:
- You must have access to a computer with Skype for Business installed. If you do not have the software, you will be required to install a web app plugin that will allow you to attend as a guest
- You must have an audio output device connected (headphones or speakers) to be able to hear the instructor
- You must have an audio input device (webcam or microphone) connected whether you wish to participate verbally or not. If you do not wish to speak, you may type in the chat window
- Experience using chat
- Experience copying/pasting text and URLs
If you do not meet the above requirements, please consider requesting a one-on-one consult.
Prior to the start of an online session, test your sound settings to ensure you are ready. See Testing Skype Sound Settings* for step-by-step instructions.
To learn more about Skype for Business, see https://intra.nshealth.ca/UCS/BPS/SitePages/SkypeforBusiness.aspx*
*Internal link, you must be on the NSHA network to access
