When conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
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PubMed® comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
Watch the video to learn more about PubMed.
PubMed is similar to the library databases, it has scholarly articles, you can use filters (limiters) to narrow your results, you can create an account to save your research and it includes a citation tool. However, boolean operators are not used in PubMed.
Watch these short interactive PubMed videos to learn how to search and navigate inside PubMed.
Now that you have reviewed all the interactive PubMed tutorials in the "Searching in PubMed" tab, you are ready to try your own search terms in PubMed.
Watch the videos below to see a demonstration of using PubMed's search term example, gut microbiome allergy, in a YVC database. All the research skills can be applied to any other YVC database.