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Introduction to Systematic Review Searching - RCPSC CME Credit Available
This session will provide an overview of the requirements for systematic review searches. This session will consist of lectures, practical exercises, and hands-on database searching. By the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Identify systematic reviews and distinguish them from other reviews,
2. Recognize the breadth of resources required to execute a systematic review search,
3. Develop a well formulated search question and structure a search using the PICO format,
4. Know how to apply appropriate date, language and publication type limits,
5. Document a search in a standardized form,
6. Understand the importance of peer-review of systematic review searches
7. Recognize the level of expert searching needed for a systematic review

Participants are encouraged to bring search topics, but this is not required.

This session is part of the "Information Skills for Health Professionals" program, a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Introduction to Searching Medline - RCPSC CME Credit available
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. construct a simple search in Medline,
2. use boolean search operators, basic truncation and basic field searches
3. construct a search using MESH subject headings
4. save, export or e-mail results,
Participants must come with their CCID and password.
The Information Skills for Health Professionals program is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Using NCBI BLAST
This tutorial will cover the basics of using NCBI BLAST and related sequence analysis tools. The session provides an overview of BLAST databases and programs, explains important features of the search interface, and demonstrates BLAST extensions, and improvements. It also highlights new services including the COBALT multiple alignment tool and Primer-BLAST, a PCR primer designer with BLAST specificity checker. Guided examples will show how get the most useful results from the BLAST and related sequence similarity search tools. Participants will be able to to follow the examples on the NCBI site during the webinar.
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NCBI Resources for Marine Organisms
This tutorial will cover selected molecular database and related search and analysis tools at NCBI with a focus on data and resources for marine and other non-model organisms. The session emphasizes database integration as part of the NCBI Discovery system and describes types of molecular data and provides an overview of databases. This session will use examples that highlight genes, reference sequences, polymorphisms, related structures and comparative genomic information. The tutorial will emphasize the Gene, Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, BioProject, Protein Clusters, and Structure databases and will demonstrate the power of using Entrez relationships to find sequences, gene information, genome sequences, homologous genes / sequences and 3D structures. Participants will be able to follow the examples on the NCBI site during the webinar.
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NCBI Molecular Biology Resources
This tutorial will cover selected molecular databases and related search and analysis tools at NCBI with a focus on data and resources for human and model organisms. The session emphasizes database integration as part of the NCBI Discovery system and provides an and describes types of molecular data and provides an overview of databases. This tutorial demonstrates Entrez searching highlighting Gene, Reference Sequences, the SNP databases and uses a single human gene as an example to navigate across the integrated databases, search tools, and other resources at the NCBI site to find sequences, gene information, genotypes, variations, and 3D structures. Participants will be able to follow the examples on the NCBI site during the webinar.
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Introduction to Rare Books in the History of Medicine (RSPSC CME Credit Available)
This session will provide a brief overview of important books in the history of medicine housed in the Rawlinson Collection in the John W Scott Health Sciences Library. The session will consist of presentation of a number of books and the opportunity to handle them and to browse the collection. By the end of this session, participants will

- be able to identify a selection of major texts including herbals, anatomical works, home medical manuals, medical education, and others.

-understand how to access the collection for teaching and research purposes.

Location: Phyllis Russell Rare Book Room, JWScott Health Sciences Library, 2K3.28 Mackenzie Centre (meet inside the main door of the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library)

This session is part of the "Information Skills for Health Professionals" program, a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Searching for Public Health Research (RCPSC CME Credit Available)
Public health is very diverse and interdisciplinary in scope, and finding research on your topic often requires searching a number of different resources.

By the end of this session, participants will:

1. be aware of a range of resources that include coverage of public health topics.
2. be able to identify resources that are most appropriate for a particular topic.
3. be able to construct a simple search strategy for those resources using common database features.

This session is part of the "Information Skills for Health Professionals" program, a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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