Are you new to PubMed? Maybe you'd like a refresher. PubMed® comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. How PubMed Works On-Demand walks through all the parts of the PubMed interface.
Each class is designed to take approximately 90 minutes to complete, and each is worth 1.5 MLA CE credits.
You can start and stop at your convenience and take only the classes that interest you. Each class is made up of a pre and post-test, a recording and a multiple-choice assignment that follows along with the recording.
The individual classes are:
- How PubMed Works: Introduction On-Demand
- How PubMed Works: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) On-Demand
- How PubMed Works: ATM (Automatic Term Mapping) On-Demand
This series of three classes addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database.
How PubMed Works: Introduction
- Understand what PubMed is and what's in it.
- Find the original research that is the basis for a news article.
- Find articles by a specific author.
- Search for articles on a specific subject.
- Narrow search results to a more specific subset
- Explore Advanced Search Builder and Search History.
How PubMed Works: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
- Explore the MeSH Database
- Define relationship between Entry Terms and MeSH Terms
- Review MeSH Hierarchy and Automatic Explosion
- Explore four types of MeSH Terms
- Identify components of a MeSH record
How PubMed Works: ATM (Automatic Term Mapping)
- Describe the contents of the 3 Translation Tables.
- Explain the order of ATM
- Analyze Search Details to verify term mapping.
- Locate PubMed's list of indexed phrases
- Describe 3 Ways to bypass ATM