EBP skills

The Medicine Information Skills Tutorial website has a free, step-by-step tutorial on a range of topics to improve your information skills.

Tutorial topics include:

• How to conduct a search for primary or secondary evidence via a database such as Medline: http://web.med.unsw.edu.au/infoskills/topic.htm

Once you know the searching basics, these resources from PubMED may help you articles more efficiently by using the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) - a standard keyword vocabulary used in Medicine and related fields. According to PubMED, these resources may be of particular interest to searchers of MEDLINE®/PubMed®, and is used in the PubMed search classes offered by NLM and the National Training Center and Clearinghouse.

PICO questions help you capture all the important aspects of a question. But more than that, they help you find relevant articles to answer your question, faster! This resource provides a worksheet of how to make a PICO question and directly translate that into search terms. A worked example and tips are also provided to set you on our way to providing evidence-based advice. It is in word format so you can type into the sheet to save time.

Here is a pdf copy of the slides and notes used for the first EBP Interest Group meeting conducted in October 2013 at the University of New South Wales. If you are interested in a copy of the PowerPoint slides or want to participate in the group, please contact us at eboptometry@unsw.edu.au.

This web-based article provides a very comprehensive table of open access journals available for opthalmology, optometry and vision.
Citation: Leffler Christopher. Open access ophthalmology, optometry, and vision journals. [Internet]. Version 25. oculistmd. 2013 Sep 10. Available from: http://oculistmd.wordpress.com/article/open-access-ophthalmology-optomet....