Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills
Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education CoordinatorCUMC - Health Sciences [email protected]
April 29, 2011
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Acknowledgements
•This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3501 with New York University.
•This series of training classes was developed by Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, Head of Reference and Education Coordinator of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University.
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IFH Training Class Series 2011
Orientation to Health Sciences Information Resources (Feb 23@12pm)
Comprehensive Searching of the Medical Literature (Mar 3@12pm)
Smart Googling for Healthcare Professionals (Mar 10@12pm)
Community Health and Demographic Data Sources (Mar 21@12pm)
Keeping Up with the Medical Literature (Mar 29@12pm)
Overview of Public Health Information Resources (Apr 6@12pm)
Finding Evidence Based Information Resources (Apr 13@12pm)
Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills (Apr 29 @12pm)
Finding Patient Education Information Resources (May 3 @12pm)
Searching for Data in Statistical Information Resources (May 11 @12pm)
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Topics covered in this session:
1.Anatomy of a PubMed record
2.Field searching in PubMed
3.Over-riding PubMed’s default settings
4.PubMed links to other NCBI resources
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Display Setting - MEDLINE (for in process record)
In process recordshave not yet been
fully indexed –so no MeSH
headings
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You are a family physician who regularly counsels your patients on family planning – specifically about what is a healthy interval of time for them to wait before starting to try having another baby.
You generally recommend about 18 months or so to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Your colleague tells you that there is a new study out of Columbia University published in the journal Pediatrics that now suggests that short time intervals between pregnancies might increase the chances of having a child born with autism.
You wish to locate the PubMed citation to that study.
How do you go about finding it quickly?
Let’s try it out…. Example Scenario
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PubMed links to other NCBI resources
•The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
•PubMed provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology and chemistry databases maintained by NCBI.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/
PubMed links to other NCBI resources
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Let’s try it out…. Example Scenario
You have the opportunity to attend the lecture where research will be discussed that may someday revolutionize the way heart disease is treated:
Speaker: Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair Annie and Willie Nelson Professor Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Lecture title:
"MicroRNA Control of Heart Disease: From New Biology toward New Therapeutics"
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Gene - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
Gene integrates/curates info from various sources –useful for learning about
genes and their associated disorders and phenotypes
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Questions?
Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education CoordinatorCUMC - Health Sciences Librarytel. [email protected]
Reference Desk: 212-305-3692email: [email protected]
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Further Reading
•PubMed Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
•NCBI Tutorials
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/education/tutorials/