The Hitchhikers Guide to the Interface: Advanced Medline for Dialog

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Interface Advanced
Medline for Dialog

• Date Monday 22nd January 2007
• Venue
• Allerton Library, University of Salford
• Course Description
• This well-established course from the Information
  Resources Section at the School of Health and
  Related Research (ScHARR) provides an important
  bridge between entry level knowledge of MEDLINE
  and the requirements to support evidence based
  healthcare. The course starts by exploring
  features of MEDLINE that are typically underused
  or unknown before tackling some common issues and
  problems. The afternoon session turns the
  attention towards use of MEDLINE features for
  answering clinical questions with practical
  exercises regarding clinical questions and the
  use of filters.
• Course Requirements
• Participants will be expected to have a basic
  working knowledge and experience of MEDLINE
• Trainers Andrew Booth and Claire Beecroft

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Interface Advanced
Medline for Dialog

• Aim
• This course provides a detailed look at the
  features of MEDLINE when accessed via the Dialog
  Interface and provides practical experience in
  the use of MEDLINE for answering clinical
  questions.
• Objectives
• At the end of the session, participants will be
  able to
• Understand the benefits and limitations of the
  MEDLINE database and, particularly, the Dialog
  interface.
• Identify the trade-offs that MEDLINE indexers
  make when indexing content using MeSH subject
  headings and other indexing features.
• Identify other circumstances where the structure
  or policies of MEDLINE might impact negatively on
  search retrieval results.
• Explain the importance of focused questions for
  handling clinical queries.
• Describe the usefulness of methodological filters
  in addressing specific types of clinical question.

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Interface Advanced
Medline for Dialog

• PROGRAMME
• 10.00 Coffee/Tea and Welcome
• 10.15 Dialog Medline- the same, but different
• 10.30                  Another fine MeSH!
• 1100                  MeSH exercises
• 11.30                  The problem with
  Medline...
• 11.45                  Common problem exercises
• 12.15                  Preparing feedback
• 12.30 LUNCH
• 1300 Feedback and Conclusions (morning
  session)
• 1330 Focusing the question
• 1400 Types of question Exercise
• 14.20  Principles of methodological filters
  Exercise
• 14.35                 Therapy Diagnosis
  Filters Exercise
• 1530                   Feedback
• 15.45                  Reviews Guidelines
• 15.55                 Evaluation
• 1600 CLOSE