Resources for Teaching PubMed

Posted by Emily Hamstra on January 11th, 2022 Posted in: Education, Library staff, Training & Education
Tags: academic libraries, Academic library, Health Sciences Library, Pubmed, PubMed.gov

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides ready-made PowerPoint presentations, tutorials, and handouts for librarians and researchers who teach PubMed. As your 2022 calendar fills with instruction session requests, consider incorporating these resources into your classes and research guides.

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PowerPoint Presentations

• Introduction to PubMed (download slides) is a 45-minute presentation with speaker notes, introducing new PubMed users to searching for an author, researching a topic, and finding a specific article.
• Where Do I Find Evidence?: Sources for Evidence-Based Practice from the National Library of Medicine (download slides) is a 60-minute presentation with speaker notes on using PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, MedlinePlus, and DailyMed for locating clinical information.

Tutorials

• PubMed Quick Tours are short (1-5 minutes) tutorials including What is in PubMed?, Find Articles on a Topic, Save Searches and Set E-mail Alerts, and more. A full list of the Quick Tours, and links to download the SCORM files for use in your learning management system, is available in the PubMed Trainer’s Toolkit.
• Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice (60 minutes) is an interactive tutorial that introduces students to using the PICO method to describe a clinical question, converting the question into search terms for PubMed, and using PubMed to locate relevant articles. Available online and downloadable SCORM package for your learning management system.

Handouts

• Tips for Using PubMed provides very basic information on searching in PubMed. The handout is available in English (download PDF) and Spanish (download PDF), and an editable Word Doc on the PubMed Trainer’s Toolkit.

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Additional resources for teaching PubMed are available in the PubMed Trainer’s Toolkit and on the PubMed Online Training website.

PubMed.gov is an index of over 33 million citations to journal articles, books, and more in the biomedical and life sciences. Interested in a learning more about PubMed? Enroll in the Network of the National Library of Medicine’s How PubMed Works courses.