Clinical Research and Patient Wellness Training Session in Sioux City, Iowa

On July 12, Chris Childs the Education & Outreach Librarian for the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences gave a Clinical Research & Patient Wellness Training Session to seventeen staff members of the Siouxland Medical Education Foundation. The purpose of this training session is to introduce the audience to free high quality clinical, evidence-based practice and patient wellness resources that they can access either from the Internet of the State Library of Iowa after they sign up for a State Library Card.  All of these resources are listed on the Free Clinical Research & Patient Wellness Resources LibGuide.  The LibGuide’s URL is http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/crpw Chris has been giving this training session for several years to different groups throughout the state of Iowa that are not affiliated with the University of Iowa. During the training session, audience members learn how to use Boolean logic and truncation to search PubMed and CINAHL, how to use the filters in PubMed and CINHAL to find free full text articles, the evidence-based practice pyramid and the importance of locating systematic reviews, open access journals, patient education resources from the National Library of Medicine and mobile apps and websites that can be downloaded for free.  Chris has given this training session at hospitals, rural clinics, public libraries and the Newton County Correctional Facility. Recently, the State Library of Iowa decided not to renew ...
Source: The Cornflower - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Outreach Source Type: news