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Table of Contents: 2020 MARCH - APRIL No. 433

PubMed Essentials: New Quick Tours and On-Demand Class on the New PubMed

PubMed Essentials: New Quick Tours and On-Demand Class on the New PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2020 Mar-Apr;(433):b4.

2020 March 06 [posted]

PubMed Essentials is intended for students, health care professionals, and researchers looking for quick training on the new PubMed. In a series of nine brief, interactive lessons, PubMed Essentials equips you with the basics of using PubMed.

This series of 9 tutorials is available in three formats:

Separate 1-4 minute Quick Tours, available from the PubMed Online Training page
As a Moodle class, PubMed Essentials On Demand, offering 1 CE from the Medical Library Association
Downloadable SCORM packages for inclusion in your learning management system from the New PubMed Trainer's Toolkit

The tutorials are:

What is in PubMed?	3 min(s)
PubMed: Find articles on a topic	1 min(s)
PubMed subject search: How it works	4 min(s)
PubMed: Find articles by author	2 min(s)
PubMed: Find articles from a citation	2 min(s)
PubMed: Find articles by journal	2 min(s)
PubMed: Find the latest treatments for a disease or disorder	2 min(s)
PubMed: Get the full text for an article	2 min(s)
PubMed: Save searches and set e-mail alerts	2 min(s)