Liven up your lunch break this summer with classes to enhance your patient care, research, and education. Every Thursday in June from 12 noon to 1 p.m., the Library will offer classes to help you find the information you need to care for patients, write a journal article, ace a class, conquer any bibliography, and survive your dissertation.
Classes are informal and interactive. Registration is not required, but seating is limited! Click on the individual class name link below or go to http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/libraryclasses. Bring your lunch!
For more information, contact John Fullinwider or 214-648-3801.
June 2: Drilling Down into PubMed / Expert Searching for Everyone
Instructor: John Fullinwider, M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.
Go deeper into MEDLINE using PubMed, the free, access-from-anywhere database of more than 20 million citations of health sciences literature. Find the resources you want and filter out irrelevant materials by using Medical Subject Headings, limits, field tags, clinical queries, discipline searching, and other expert strategies. The class will also feature resources for global and public health research.
June 9: Organizing Citations with Endnote
Instructor: Therona Ramos, M.A.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.
Writing an article, dissertation, or grant? Compile, organize and integrate citations into Microsoft Word without stress with the just released EndNote X4. This hands-on, “how to” class covers the following major time and labor-saving EndNote features:
- Downloading or importing citation information from online databases
- Built-in full-text file (.pdf) download and search function
- Custom groups for organizing your EndNote library citations
- Flexible re-formatting of bibliographies to meet required journal/editorial guidelines.
June 16: Getting the Most Out of OvidSP
Instructor: Laura Wilder, M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.
Find higher-level evidence to enrich your practice and research using this super user-friendly interface, recently improved, to search MEDLINE and related databases. OvidSP offers you seamless and up-to-the-minute access to the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 3,900 biomedical journals published in more than 70 countries. Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records.
June 23: Surviving Your Dissertation
Instructors: Tracey Minzenmayer, Ph.D., M.I.S.; Claudia DeShay, Ph.D., M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Conference Room, E3.314E.
Save time and energy by learning how to use Library resources effectively. This class will also offer tips on writing and navigating the committee process.
June 30: Seeing Visual Dx / Visual Diagnosis at the Point of Care
Instructor: Jack Bullion, M.F.A., M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.
Visual clues are essential to accurate diagnosis. Visual Dx combines high-quality medical images into a step-by-step decision support system to assist you in making more accurate structured differential diagnoses – never eliminating possible diagnostic possibilities, but ranking the possibilities by relevance to patient findings. Mobile app available for iPhone/Touch.