1 credit
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course is designed to help you develop essential information skills to support your professional goals and prepare you to succeed in graduate or professional school in the health sciences. Learn how to navigate PubMed and other subject-specific databases, and differentiate between various types of research articles. Become adept at saving, organizing, and annotating articles so you can easily locate them, "cite while you write," and share them with your classmates or research group. Prepare for writing for publication. And avail yourself of the resources and services academic libraries provide, beyond books and journals, to support your coursework and research.
Learning Outcomes1Plan for comprehensive literature searches by clearly defining your information need and mapping search terms to those concepts.
2Find information relevant to your information needs using appropriate subject database(s), including the use of keywords or prescribed vocabulary, and available search facets.
3Evaluate the level of evidence presented by research reports on the basis of their methodologies.
4Save, organize, and use materials in multiple formats (journal articles, books, book chapters, web sites) using a citation management system.
5Explain what evidence-based practice means to you in the context of your career goals.
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