PubMed
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Understand what PubMed is and what’s in it
- Explore citation record
- Explore advanced search builder (search fields and building search)
- Explore search history
Intended Audience
This online course is designed for pediatricians, family physicians, researchers and other healthcare providers and educators.
Abstract
PubMed is a freely available bibliographic online database created, managed, and hosted by the United States National Library of Medicine. PubMed currently hosts over 34 million citations and is considered the primary resource in health sciences literature. Accessing and appraising the highest quality and most up-to-date research are integral steps in evidence-based practice, which ensures that clinicians stay current with the latest guidelines and recommendations, which will ultimately improving patient outcomes. While the basic features of PubMed are intuitive, Armenian clinicians and researchers will benefit from this course which provides foundational knowledge of how PubMed functions and delves into more advanced features, including searching with Medical Subject Headings and setting up personalized features. By increasing their knowledge and comfort in searching PubMed, course participants will have a powerful and additional tool when seeking out medical information online to inform their practice and research.
Assessment and Earning CME Credit
To receive CME credit for this episode in Armenia, you must take the CME quiz at the end of this page. You have 3 chances to get a 70% to pass. Once you pass the quiz, we will send your information to the Armenia Ministry of Health for credits.
Lynn Kysh, MLIS, MPP
Lynn Kysh is a health sciences librarian with over 8 years of experience. She received her Master of Library & Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2012. After working as an informational services librarian at the University of Southern California (USC) and acting as a liaison to the Keck School of Medicine for over 5 years, she went on to complete her Master of Public Policy from UCLA in 2020. Lynn is currently the solo librarian at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and is a member of CHLA’s Institute for Nursing and Interprofessional Research. Her responsibilities include investigating the value of health humanities, conducting systematic and scoping reviews, teaching evidence-based practice, and developing policies using social epidemiological methods.
