University of British ColumbiaSchool of Library, Archival and Information StudiesLIBR 534 – Health Information Sources and Services

Winter Session: January – April 2012Instructor: Dean Giustini

A review for students in health librarianship: select the best answer

1. Which Greek physician has been called the "Father of Western Medicine"?a. Galenb. Hippocratesc. Avicennad. Osler

2. Which of the following is not one of the Hippocratic humours?a. phlegmb. yellow bilec. black biled. bloode. bloodletting

3. What common medical treatment was performed by doctors from antiquity to the 19th c?a. dissectionb. bloodlettingc. bedside examinationd. asking the injured to breathe

4. The Latin maxim "Primum non nocere" means what?a. Release a pint of blood from the noseb. Make patients sufferc. Talk to the patientd. First do no harm

5. Which Renaissance physician recognized that the heart was a powerful pump?a. William Harveyb. Vesaliusc. Michelangelod. Galen

6. The history of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is connected to which of the following events?

a. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in the Ford Theatreb. The appointment of John Shaw Billings as head librarianc. The creation NLM classification schemed. The creation of Index Medicus in 1879e. All the above

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7. Which is the largest biomedical library in the world?a. The National Medical Library of Franceb. Libraries and Archives Canadac. The National Library of Medicined. The Canadian Institute for Science and Technical Information (CISTI)

8. The creation of MEDLINE goes back to which of the following historic events?a. John Shaw Billings’ thesisb. The creation of Index Medicus in 1879c. The creation of the Index catalogue in 1880d. The American civil ware. All of the above

9. Does Canada have a National Library of Medicine?a. Yes_________________ No_________________ (explain)b. Maybe _____________________

10. Which of the following is Canada's national association of health librarians?a. Canadian Health Librarians Associationb. Canadian Health Libraries Associationc. Health Libraries Association of Canadad. Canadian Medical Library Association

11. PubMed is all of the following except:a. A biomedical databaseb. An interface to the biomedical literaturec. An openly-accessible, crawl-able site on the Internet d. A consumer health information website

12. MEDLINE is produced by whom:a. Ovid technologiesb. CINAHL Information Systemsc. The National Library of Medicine (NLM)d. EBSCOe. The Canadian Institute for Science and Technical Information (CISTI)

13. EMBASE is produced by whom:a. Ovid technologiesb. Elsevier Publishersc. The National Library of Medicine (NLM)d. EBSCO

14. CINAHL is produced by whom:a. Ovidb. CINAHL Information Systemsc. NLM

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15. The following are all search interfaces except:a. OvidSPb. EBSCOc. PubMedd. MEDLINE

16. Using “quotations” around two ore more words in PubMed tells the system to: a. treat the terms as a phrase searchb. use truncation c. use adjacencyd. use the clinical queries filters

17. Which of the following is most common in the indexing of articles at the NLM?a. Ten (10) to fifteen headings are assigned to each articleb. Indexers index at the most specific conceptc. Of the medical subject headings in a record, 3 or 4 are major descriptorsd. All of the above

18. In basic searching, and to improve precision in search results, it is advisable to use:a. Explodeb. Focusc. The Haynes filtersd. None of the above

19. In basic searching, to improve recall, it is advisable to use:a. Explodeb. Focusc. The Haynes filtersd. None of the above

20. To increase recall, it is advisable to:a. Use keywordsb. Explodec. Talk to an expertd. Use Google scholare. Potentially all of the above

21. Entry terms in the scope note of MeSH are synonyms for the main heading. a. True b. False

22. What do we call the asterisks, dollar signs and question marks (* $ : or ?) when used in

searching to improve recall ?a. Truncation or wildcard searchingb. Adjacency searchingc. Focused searchingd. Unfocussed searchinge. All of the above

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23. How many floating subheadings are possible when using Medline?a. 44b. 83c. Less than 100d. More than 100

24. How many subheadings are available when using Embase?a. 78 subheadings b. 64 drug subheadings c. 14 disease subheadingsd. More than 100e. A, B & C

25. What is Medline’s 'branch-like' structure called that breaks MeSH into more specific topics?a. EMTREE facetsb. CINAHL headingsc. The MeSH Tree d. The subheading screen

26. What is the MeSH record called that provides definitions for terms and date when the MeSH was created?

a. The facet pageb. The explode pagec. The focus featured. The Scope Note

27. How far back does PubMed index the biomedical literature?a. 1945b. 1966c. 1971d. Hm, it depends on what you mean

28. When you need to correct a citation, or it is incomplete, which PubMed tool is most useful?a. Clinical queriesb. Journal databasec. MeSH databased. Single citation matcher

29. This PubMed feature allows clinicians to use pre-formatted filters to search for relevant biomedical literature:

a. Clinical queriesb. Journal databasec. MeSH databased. Single citation matchere. None of the above

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30. When searching PubMed, remember that recent searches are saved for:a. 10 minutesb. 8 hoursc. Foreverd. Hm, it depends on what you mean

31. Reviews of the literature that aim for the highest recall ....requiring reproducible searches and detailed documentation are called – what?

a. Narrative reviewsb. Literature reviewsc. Systematic reviewsd. All of the above

32. Which of the following frameworks will aid in developing a good clinical question (and relevant ‘concepts’ and keywords to search)?

a. P-I-C-Ob. F-R-I-A-Rc. PRISMAd. None of these

33. A clinical librarian is:a. Simply an older term for ‘informatician’b. A health librarian with a health background who works with clinicians on teamsc. Simply another term for ‘informationist’d. Not a health librarian

34. Who in the following list is not a Canadian health librarian?a. Andrew Boothb. Jessie McGowanc. Joanne Marshalld. Ann McKibbone. Linda Howard

35. Which health library study, written by Canadian Joanne Marshall in 1991, revealed the value of clinical information on physicians’ decision-making:

a. The Rochester Studyb. The Grey Lit Manualc. The Consumer Health Information Manuald. Haynes’ filters

36. This Canadian university is widely seen as the birthplace of evidence-based medicine:a. University of Torontob. McGill Universityc. McMaster Universityd. Dalhousie University

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37. As a reference librarian in health, which are important skills to remember:a. Respecting confidentiality b. To not dispense advice everc. To provide a range of authoritative materials to patientsd. To steer patients to the ‘best evidence’ e. All the above

38. Which of the following are important considerations in determining authority of reference sources in health and medicine?

a. Organization and arrangementb. Authors c. That its creation is supported by an epistemological strategy d. Reputatione. All of the above

39. What is the name of the NLM site for consumer health information that provides entries about prescription drugs, herbs and supplements?

a. PubMed Healthb. MedlinePlus®c. PubMed Centrald. NCCAMe. None of the above

40. Which of the following is most accurate when discussing evidence-based medicine?a. Decisions are made in medicine by integrating the evidence with clinical expertise &

the unique preferences, values & circumstances of patients & their familiesb. EBM has always been practiced by physiciansc. EBM is made possible by reading the most recent systematic reviewd. Practitioners cannot practice EBM without good search skills

41. Which of the following is not necessarily considered one of the steps of EBM?a. Step 1 — Frame your clinical questionb. Step 2 —Ask the librarian to find you “best evidence”c. Step 3 — Critically appraise that evidenced. Step 4 — Integrate best evidence into practicee. Step 5 — Evaluate steps 1-4

42. Which of the following health databases will not contain systematic reviews?a. CINAHLb. MEDLINEc. The Cochrane Methodology Registerd. Google scholare. Dissertation Abstracts

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43. When searching for electronic books in biomedicine, what facts are important to remember?a. Using a discovery tool like Summon may be your best bet to find the itemb. Unless the print is exactly the same as the electronic text, there will be two records

in the library cataloguec. Bibliographic records for print-ebooks are not always linked in the 856 field d. Most university libraries subscribe to collections of ebooks on platforms such as

AccessMedicine, MDConsult, STAT!Ref and Knovel – search there firste. All of the above

44. In teaching user groups in biomedicine, which of the following might be recommended in creating a useful workshop?

a. The BOPPPS modelb. Design the class based on department/discipline/program e.g., nursing/arthritis/PhDc. Do a pre-workshop assessment of your users’ skillsd. Do a post-workshop assessment of your users’ skills to measure what they learnede. All of the above

45. Which of the following is not a tool librarians use to evaluate health websites?a. SMOGb. HON Codec. Discern http://www.discern.org.ukd. MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing -

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.htmle. Google analytics

46. Which of the following is not considered an extended search technique for search experts?a. Snowballingb. Pearl-harvestingc. Google scholaringd. Hand searchinge. Asking Dean for help

Congratulations all~

You’ve made it to the end of term, and the end of LIBR534.

I hope you all become health librarians …but if you find yourself drawn to other fields I hope you’ll keep in touch.

Best to all of you Dean

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