Welcome to the Library Workshop - October 28, 2022
This workshop aims to help you find relevant research papers for your PHTH 516 assignment and to learn how to use Vancouver Style for your citations. We will be using Medline (Ovid) to teach you how to do efficient and effective searching that will help with this assignment and finding clinical evidence generally.
To make best use of this opportunity bring your assignment topic, questions about searches you have tried, and any papers you have already found.
Our guide on Medline (Ovid) will prepare you for the workshop. If you have time (~15 min), check out the following modules of the MEDLINE GUIDED EXERCISE and use the Build Your Own section to guide your search:
Workshop Resources
- PICO Search Plan and Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question WorksheetEditable worksheet to plan and record your search strategies.
- Search Strategy Explained Stroke exampleStructured search in Medline Ovid with explanatory notes
- Building a search strategy in CINAHL (Ebsco)Step by step instructions for finding and using subject headings and keywords in CINAHL in the Ebsco interface
Citing Sources and Copyright
Citing your references
Citation management tools and apps allow users to create personal citation databases by importing references from databases and catalogues. The references can be organized into categories, or libraries, and used to quickly add in text citations and create bibliographies or reference lists.
Examples of citation management tools: Endnote, Mendeley and Zotero.
Citing sources
How to Cite Sources at UBC - UBC Library overview
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Guide to APA Style
Copyright
Background Information
Textbooks and other books
- LWW Health LibraryIncludes sections for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Hearing, Exercise Science, Exercise Science, Pharmacy, and Medical Education. To print pages and use self-assessment tools register an account with LWW Health Library
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowApproximately 40 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and more), Lange Educational Library, and a USMLE self-assessment tool and 50+ clinical cases.
- Books@OvidCollection of full text e-books for medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Includes The ICU Book, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, and the Joanna Briggs Institute series on Synthesis Science in Healthcare
Point of Care Tools
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.
- Dynamed This link opens in a new windowA point-of-care reference tool containing clinically-oriented summaries for 3,200+ topics.
Encyclopedia and dictionaries
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis & TherapyIncludes diagnostic and therapeutic information in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, rehabilitation, and a number of special subjects. Available online.
- MedlinePlusFreely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.
Websites
- MedlinePlus (Consumer Health) This link opens in a new windowFreely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.
- PhysiopediaThe free comprehensive online reference written by physiotherapists for physiotherapists.
- SpeechBITECurated speech pathology intervention studies to support evidence based practice.
Searching Tutorials
- CINAHL Guided ExerciseThis tutorial provides step by step instructions for each stage of a structured search. It's intended to be a "guide on the side" - follow along or build your own!
- CINAHL TutorialsThese modules of 2-3 minutes each demonstrate the different search techniques and strategies for effective searching in CINAHL on the Ebsco platform. These techniques are transferable to other databases, both on the Ebsco platform and through other search engines.
- EMBASE (Ovid) Video TutorialsThese modules of 2-3 minutes each demonstrate the different search techniques and strategies for effective searching in EMBASE on the Ovid platform. Many of these techniques are transferable to other databases, both on the Ovid platform and through other search engines.
- MEDLINE Guided ExerciseThis tutorial gives step by step instructions for each stage of a structured search. Use it as a "guide on the side" - follow along, or build your own!
- MEDLINE (Ovid) tutorialsThese modules of 2-3 minutes each demonstrate the different search techniques and strategies for effective searching in Medline on the Ovid platform. These techniques are transferable to other databases, both on the Ovid platform and through other search engines.
- Scales, Tests and Measures TutorialsThese short modules are under 5 minutes each and provide tips and techniques for finding tests and scales as well as their evaluation.