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This 90-minute webinar explores the use of MeSH in the cataloging environment. 

This online, self-paced course for librarians and students in health sciences describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.

How many Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease each year? Are there geographic gaps in access to healthcare? How do the leading causes of death in the United States differ from those worldwide? Do mRNA vaccines, like the COVID-19, cause cardiovascular events? Does the use of oral contraceptives (birth control pills) increase the risk of breast cancer?

Explore the different types of health data standards and how they support interoperability of health information systems. Learn about relevant National Library of Medicine (NLM) terminology products, tools, and services. This course will help you identify ways that you may already be using standards and consider ways that you can adopt or better implement health data standards into your systems, workflows, and practices. 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) employs an authorized classification scheme called the NLM Classification. Designed for librarians who are creating or using a bibliographic record, this course will provide a basic overview of the NLM Classification, including how to apply Classification numbers, how to interpret NLM Call numbers, how to use the online NLM Classification system and where to go for more information for specific issues. 

PubMed maps your search terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) to augment your search with additional terms from the vocabulary that NLM uses to describe articles in MEDLINE®/PubMed. Take this course to better understand how PubMed uses MeSH and how you can take control of your PubMed topic searches for better precision or recall.

When conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This one-hour, online course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.