iSkills for Medicine: Searching systematically
This session will cover some more advanced techniques for finding medical literature to answer a research question. We will recap some basics, then demonstrate searching in several medical databases, including using subject headings (MeSH) and the differences between different platforms.

After the main 90-minute workshop, one of the Bodleian Health Care Libraries Outreach Librarians will be available for another 30 minutes to answer questions about your own searches, so feel free to bring along what you are working on.

By the end of this session, you will be able to: explain what subject headings are, and how to use them; search for words that appear near to other words; take a search from one database into another; and save a search and document it.

Intended audience: students, staff and researchers from MSD and OUH.
Date: 6 February 2025, 15:00
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speakers: Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser contact email address: usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0105
Cost: Free
Audience: Students, staff and researchers from MSD and OUH.
Editors: Helen Bond, Melanie Smith