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Education and Training for YNHH and Affiliated Sites

The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library offers a range of library instruction seminars, demonstrations, and training sessions on the use of electronic information resources. The classes listed below are provided to individuals and small groups at the Yale-New Haven Hosptial (YNHH) on any Clinical Workstation or any computer which allows access to library resources. Large classes can be arranged at alternative locations. Instruction is also available for individuals at affiliated institutions and for affiliated physicians at their offices or clinics. Most class are approximately one hour.

To schedule a private session or a session tailored for your department or office, please contact the liaison to your Department or your personal librarian or send a message to the Curriculum and Research Support Department.

CINAHL
Learn how to do a basic author, subject, or textword search, as well as explore the unique features of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database.

Creating Presentations [Using PowerPoint]
Introduces the following: choosing a design template, creating different types of slides (bulleted, informational), creating a simple chart and table, importing an image. The class will also cover viewing and arranging slides, and creating presentation notes and handouts. Class is 1.5 hours.

Drug Information Resources
Learn to use important drug information resources, such as MicroMedex, Stat!-Ref and MEDLINE.

EndNote
Learn basic features of this bibliographic database management program. This class focuses on successfully importing citations from any Ovid database to your EndNote library.

Evidence Based Practice
The session covers searching techniques for the Cochrane Library and Best Evidence. Also learn about special filters developed to find the evidence-based citations in MEDLINE.

Library Survival Skills
This session will cover Orbis (Yale's online catalog for books and journals), MEDLINE and a useful reference materials. We'll discuss how the Library can help you get the items you need, how to decipher confused citations, how to determine if Yale subscribes to certain journals, how to request articles from other libraries and more!

Ovid MEDLINE
This introduction to searching MEDLINE on the Library's Ovid system covers basic author, journal, subject or textword searching,and how to print or save the results.

Micromedex
Learn to search Micromedex which contains information on toxicology, drugs, aftercare, reporductive risks, and acute care disease and trauma.

PubMed
This introduction to searching MEDLINE using the National Library of Medicine's PubMed,covers basic author, journal, subject or textword searching, and how to print or save the results.

Web of Science(ISI)/Journal Citation Reports Online
Discover how to find the citations for a journal article and learn which authors are citing that article using the Web of Science gateway. The class will also cover ISI's Journal Citation Reports, a valuable tool providing comparative data to gauge a journals standing within its field.