A Guide to E-Journals Medical Education: Curriculum Design and Evaluation Session Presenter: Marcus Vaska September 8, 2009

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 Session Outline A Virtual Tour of the Health Sciences Library –Library Catalogue E-Journals –Academic Medicine –Medical Education –Teaching and Learning in Medicine Online Resources (Databases) –PubMed –ERIC –Academic Search Complete

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 The Health Sciences Library Renovation Resources FaceBook Current Awareness (H1N1) IM (Ask Us a Question!) Research/Teaching Support About Us Hours Services

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 The Library Catalogue: Searching for a Book Does the Health Sciences Library have the following item? –Carter, Y., & Jackson, N. (2008). Medical education and training : From theory to delivery. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 The Library Catalogue: Searching for a Book At a recent conference, you attended a brilliant talk by Dason Evans. Inspired by his methods, you decide to check the library catalogue to see if the Health Sciences Library holds any books by him.

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 E-Journals E-Journals –Accessed from the Library home page by clicking on the Journals tab. –E-Journals are all listed alphabetically

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 E-Journals Medical Education Academic Medicine* (preceded by Journal of Medical Education) Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice Advances in Physiology Education American Biology Teacher American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education Archives of Medical Research Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Medical Education* Medical Teacher Teaching and Learning in Medicine*

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 Refining a Search Boolean Operators –AND (narrows search, retrieving records containing all of the terms) –OR (broadens search, retrieving records containing any of the terms) –NOT (excludes terms from a search, retrieving records that do not contain the term following it.) Truncation/Wildcard –* system* = returns records on system, systems, systematic –? wom?n = returns records on both woman and women (singular and plural forms) Nesting –Parenthesis, () keep related terms together If searching for an exact phrase, enclose phrase in quotation marks, “”

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 Online Resources/Databases: PubMed Database from US National Library of Medicine covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, molecular biology, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. Please access PubMed via the U of C online resources route, NOT via pubmed.gov

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 Online Resources/Databases ERIC Premier database for the educational discipline Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines across all educational topics.

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 Online Resources/Databases: Academic Search Complete Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Includes fulltext articles & image collection of photos of people, places, history, natural science, maps, and flags. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.

Marcus Vaska, Sept 8/09 The End This concludes today’s session. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you! –Marcus Vaska Phone: