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MEDLINE Indexing Online Training Course

Category I - Education and Social Sciences

Indexing Principles

Education is also available as both a MeSH heading and a subheading. Use the MeSH heading EDUCATION for general articles about the field of education or as an NIM coordinate with another MeSH term that does not allow the subheading /education. More frequently education will be used as the subheading /education with a specific MeSH term.

Education in developing countries
*EDUCATION
*DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Training in economics
*ECONOMICS
EDUCATION

Training in medical illustration
MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION /*educ

Several specific terms are treed under EDUCATION. Coordinate a specific MeSH term with the subheading /education (IM) with one of these education terms, probably IM.

Premedical curriculum in embryology
EMBRYOLOGY /*educ
*CURRICULUM
*EDUCATION, PREMEDICAL

Last Reviewed: March 10, 2015