PubMed Search Clinics

PubMed is a powerful search engine that indexes the medical, nursing and allied health journal literature. Bonus : Use the PubMed Link on the Library Intranet webpage, and you’ll tap into our full-text offerings.

Brush up on your PubMed Search Skills with the following Search Clinics :

PubMed Advanced Search Page Modified
See the NLM Technical Bulletin for details and screenshots

Search Clinic: Building a PubMed Search
NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2010

Skill Kit: Save Time Finding Citations by Title Matching in the PubMed Search Box
NLM Technical Bulletin, May-Jun 2010

Skill Kit: Searching Full Author Names in PubMed
NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2009.

If you’re looking for more in depth training, try this :
PubMed Search Clinic Online Recording
PubMed April 20 Search Clinic: Building a PubMed Search is now online.
A thirty minute online search clinic was presented by the NLM via Adobe Connect on Tuesday, April 20. The presentation covered the mechanics of the PubMed Search Builder and how to search using tags.

More PubMed Online Training Resources

Questons about PubMed? Ask us to do the searching for you. Just tell us what you’re looking for. Feel free to contact your Librarians via phone, Outlook, or in person :

Michele Matucheski (MMC Library) 3-0340
Margo Lambert (STE Library) 8-2857

Updated Training Materials Available from NLM

The following training materials have been updated for 2008:

• The PubMed® training workbook
• The Basics of Medical Subject Headings® Web site
• The PubMed Tutorial

These materials reflect changes in the medical subject headings and PubMed through December 2007. For details regarding these changes, see the November-December 2007 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin.

Additional training materials for PubMed and other NLM® resources are available from the NLM Distance Education Program Resources page and the NLM Training Manuals and Resources site. The training manuals are designed for use with the NLM National Training Center and Clearinghouse training courses described at: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/description.html.

From The NLM Technical Bulletin, January 2008 :
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf08/jf08_updated_training.html