TML News and Notes: June 2013
Open Workshop: PubMed: The Basics
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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Tompkins-McCaw Library - Library Classroom, 2-006, MCV Campus |
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Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. |
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Open Workshop: RefWorks - A Citation Management Program |
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Monday, June 24, 2013 |
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Tompkins-McCaw Library - Library Classroom, 2-006, MCV Campus |
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Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. |
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Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour |
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013 |
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Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, Room 2-006, MCV Campus |
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Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we'll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. |
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A recent multi-institutional survey examined internal medicine residents' use of point-of-care information resources for clinical decision making. Respondents reported speed, trust in quality of information, and portability as the top reasons for selecting a resource. The top three resources were UpToDate, faculty consultation, and Google. PubMed/MEDLINE was reported as being used at least daily by only about 13% of respondents because it took more time to search for and synthesis information.
The residents reported using the general Google search to find specific websites or general information on a disease while Google Scholar was used to search for diagnostic techniques and current treatments in journals. A certain amount of mistrust of the quality of information found through Google was reported, but the responses indicated that Google was largely used for discovery before moving on to more trusted information sources.
To read more, visit the library homepage and copy and paste the PMID number below into the PubMed search box.
Duran-Nelson A, Gladding S, Beattie J, Nixon LJ. Should we google it? resource use by internal medicine residents for point-of-care clinical decision making. Acad Med. 2013;88(6):788-794. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31828ffdb7 PMID: 23619072
Thursday, June 13, 2013
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Registration is required. After registering, participants will receive the class URL via email
