"Half of what you’ll learn in medical school will be shown to be either dead wrong or out of date within five years of your graduation; the trouble is that nobody can tell you which half – so the most important thing to learn is how to learn on your own."
David Sackett, M.D.
Introduction to Searching & Using this Guide
The resources listed on this guide are a starting point for discovering the best resources to answer a variety of questions. Your answer may be found in more than one resource so you can simply choose your favorite one, or you may have to try a number of resources in order to find the best information. We encourage you to use a variety of resources and seek different opinions by choosing different resources. As you move through your medical career, developing great habits for life-long learning is very important. Use these cases to get to know and develop your favorite resources to support that activity.
Jump to Current Case resources.
Starting Points
An important first step to finding the right resources is to define what the type of question you have - and it may have many facets:
Access from Office Campus In order to access these resources off campus, you will need to use the VPN AnyConnect (downloaded software that covers all your computer applications). For detailed instructions, click one of the following: |
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When Using PubMed ... Full-text articles from PubMed - be sure to use this special link to PubMed so you can have the UC-eLinks button which is your bridge to full-text.
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Your search will always begin with an assessment of your information need and a recognition of the type of question you have. Your next steps depend upon your assessment. The following outlines the process of searching.
Did you know that in PubMed you can:
Use Limits to:
Jump to the PubMed Tutorial about Limits.
Use Clinical Queries to:
Jump to the PubMed Tutorial about using Clinical Queries
Sharpen you PubMed skills with these tutorials: