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Searching systematically in medicine
This session will cover some more advanced techniques for finding medical literature to answer a research question. We will recap some basics, then demonstrate searching in several medical databases, including using subject headings (MeSH) and the differences between platforms.
After the main 90-minute workshop, one of the Bodleian Health Care Libraries Outreach Librarians will be available for another 30 minutes to answer questions about your own searches, so feel free to bring along what you are working on.
By the end of this session, you will be able to: explain what subject headings are, and how to use them; search for words that appear near to other words; take a search from one database into another; and save a search and document it.
Intended audience: Medicine & NHS; Researcher & research student
Date:
17 November 2025, 15:00
Venue:
Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details:
Beeson Room
Speakers:
Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford),
Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser contact email address:
usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0105
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals and Bodleian reader card holders.
Editors:
Helen Bond,
Melanie Smith
