Sustained Reasoning

Defining and clarifying a problem to determine exactly what it is and when it has been solved. The sustained aspect refers to the longitudinal component of the integrated effort needed. Tools include publishing programs, computer-assisted design tools, visualization, and modeling environments. Sustained reasoning is used for planning, designing, executing, and evaluating a solution to the identified problem.

Insights

Access to Medical Procedures, Techniques, and Patient Examination Videos

Students and faculty have access to many medical procedure, technique and patient examination videos.

Knowledge Base Articles

Searching for Alternatives to Animal Research

This article describes national and local requirements, resources, and strategies for locating and describing published evidence on alternatives to animal research.

Start Your First Covidence Review

Make systematic reviewing faster and easier. Covidence supports import and de-duplication of citations, title, abstract and full-text screening, risk-of-bias assessment, and data extraction.

Which Databases Should I Search? A Strategy for Selecting Appropriate Sources

Strategy and logic on how to select the right database by matching information need with scope, features and functions of the source.

Tutorials

Covidence Demo

This demo from the Covidence Academy introduces the key features and functions found in Covidence, all designed to streamline your systematic review.

Exploring MeSH for Expert Searching

An exploration of how Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used for indexing MEDLINE records in PubMed. This tutorial is intended for PubMed searchers.

Mapping Keywords to MeSH Function in OVID MEDLINE

Demo of the mapping function in OVID MEDLINE.

OVID MEDLINE Basics.

Demo of VID MEDLINE basic features and functions.

Proximity Searching in PubMed

A brief tutorial from the National Library of Medicine introducing the proximity search capabilities available in PubMed.

PubMed: Using the Advanced Search Builder

A brief tutorial from the National Library of Medicine introducing expert users to PubMed's Advanced Search functions.

Using Author Impact Beamplots in Web of Science Author Records

This tutorial explains why and how to use author impact beamplots, one of the many tools available in Web of Science.

Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice

Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice was created to help clinicians including nurses and allied health professionals develop a clinical question using the PICO framework and efficiently find relevant biomedical literature using PubMed. The tutorial was designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes.

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