Clinical Research Center
Research Skills Workshop
Workshops are held each Friday from 9:00 am to 10:00 am online via teleconference.
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CME Credit Information
NOTICE: Vanderbilt School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians and others. Vanderbilt School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.To obtain CME/CEU credit for attending a workshop, set-up your profile in the Vanderbilt CME system by visiting: https://vumc.cloud-cme.com.
At each workshop, you will be given a unique code to text to the system. Text that code to the CME phone number within 24 hours of the workshop to receive CME credit. Credit is awarded immediately. Please contact cme@vumc.org if you have questions about your transcript.
Future scheduled workshop topics are shown below.
Click here to see archived topics - with links to handouts.
Managing PubMed and Other Publication Searches
Once you have completed a search in PubMed or another database, what are your next steps? This session will provide a demonstration of how to save , export, and utilize other available options for managing search results. Learn how features in databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar can help you store, download, and keep track of citations for your research.
(Heather E. Laferriere, MLIS, Health Sciences Informationist, Eskind Biomedical Library)
Literature Reviews, Resources, and Services
This workshop will provide an overview and comparison of three major types of literature reviews (narrative, scoping, and systematic) and the various information resources and Eskind Library services available to help researchers throughout the entire process.
(Rachel Lane Walden, MLIS, Health Sciences Informationist, Vanderbilt University's Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center)
Citation Managers - Why You Should Use One
TBD
(Heather E. Laferriere, MLIS, Health Sciences Informationist, Eskind Biomedical Library)
Covidence: Systematic Review Management Tool
Covidence is a web-based tool that can be used to conduct your reviews more efficiently. It will help you with title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. It is geared towards those conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis, or clinical guideline, and is great for collaborative work. Covidence works seamlessly with your favorite reference managers like EndNote, Zotero, or Mendeley along with allowing bulk PDF importing, and it allows for customizable extraction forms and easy population of your risk of bias tables. In this workshop, we will go over how to create and set up a review along with going over the steps in completing your review using Covidence.
(Rachel Lane Walden, MLIS, Health Sciences Informationist, Vanderbilt University's Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center)