Information Competency Tracks

Academic | Administration | Basic Science | Clinical | Residents | Nursing | Research | Students

Depending on your role at the Medical Center you may have different instructional needs when it comes to using Library resources. This page offers some suggestions for several of the major categories of Library users. Users are also encouraged to put together their own “track” from the list of available library research skills classes.

Questions? Contact the library via this form or at (212) 263-5397.

Academic

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Open Access Publishing for NYU Authors

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• EMBASE: The Other MEDLINE
• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More
• Choose one of the following options:
  Ovid: Intro to MEDLINE AND Ovid: Advanced MEDLINE Searching
  OR PubMed: Intro to MEDLINE
  OR PsycINFO: Mental Health and More

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• Choose one of the following options:
  EndNote (Basic and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
  OR PowerPoint for Presentations (Basic)
  AND PowerPoint for Presentations (Intermediate) OR PowerPoint Posters

Total = 6 - 8 Classes

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Administration

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Current Awareness Services

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• The Business of Medicine and Healthcare
• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• Choose one of the following options:
  EndNote (Basic and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
• PowerPoint for Presentations (Basic)
  AND PowerPoint for Presentations (Intermediate) OR PowerPoint Posters

Total = 7 – 8 Classes

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Basic Science

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Open Access Publishing for NYU Authors

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More
• Current Protocols

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• SPSS (offered through Washington Square )
• Excel (offered through OD&L)
• Access (offered through OD&L)
• Choose one of the following options:
  EndNote (Basic and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
  OR PowerPoint for Presentations (Basic)
  AND PowerPoint for Presentations (Intermediate) OR PowerPoint Posters

Total = 10 – 11 Classes

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Clinical

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Consumer Health Information Resources

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• Choose one of the following options:
  MEDLINE (via Ovid): Intro to Searching
  OR MEDLINE (via PubMed): Intro to Searching
  OR Psychosocial Literature: More than Mental Health
• EMBASE: The Other MEDLINE
• Making the Most of Pharmaceutical Resources
• The Essentials of Evidence-Based Health Care: Strategies for Searching the Literature

Making the Most of Your PDA

• Palms: The Basics AND Palms: Beyond the Basics

OR

• Pocket PC 101

 

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• PowerPoint Posters

Total = 8 - 9 Classes

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Residents

Keeping Up

• Open Access Publishing for NYU Authors
• Disaster Preparedness and Bioterrorism Resources
• Consumer Health Information resources

Database Searching

• MEDLINE (via Ovid): Intro to Searching AND MEDLINE (via Ovid): Advanced Searching
  OR MEDLINE (via PubMed): Intro to Searching
• EMBASE: The Other MEDLINE
• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More
• Making the Most of Pharmaceutical Resources
• The Essentials of Evidence-Based Health Care: Strategies for Searching the Literature

Making the Most of Your PDA

• Palms: The Basics AND Palms: Beyond the Basics
  OR
• Pocket PC 101

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• EndNote (Basics and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
• PowerPoint Posters

Total = 11 - 13 Classes

 

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Nursing

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Consumer Health Information Resources
   
  

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• CINAHL: Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  
• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More
  
• Choose one of the following options:
  MEDLINE (via Ovid): Intro to Searching
  OR MEDLINE (via PubMed): Intro to Searching         
• Making the Most of Pharmaceutical Resources
  

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• Choose one of the following options:
  EndNote (Basics and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
  OR PowerPoint for Presentations (Basics)
  AND PowerPoint for Presentations (Intermediate) OR PowerPoint Posters
  

Total = 8 - 10 Classes

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Research

Keeping Up

• Making the Most of Ehrman Medical Library
• Current Awareness Services
• Open Access Publishing for NYU Authors

Database Searching: Skills & Strategies

• EMBASE: The Other MEDLINE
• Web of Science: Citation Searching and More
• Choose one of the following options:
  Ovid: Introduction to MEDLINE AND Ovid: Advanced MEDLINE Searching
  OR PubMed: Introduction to MEDLINE
  OR PsycINFO: Mental Health and More

Information Management & Presentation Skills

• SPSS (offered through Washington Square )
• Choose one of the following options:
  Excel (offered through OD&L)
  OR Access (offered through OD&L)
• Choose one of the following options:
  EndNote (Basic and Intermediate)
  OR RefWorks Basics
  OR PowerPoint for Presentations (Basic)
  AND PowerPoint for Presentations (Intermediate) OR PowerPoint Posters

Total = 9 - 11 Classes

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Students

Research skills and resources for graduate and undergraduate students are integrated with the formal curricula of the School of Medicine and the Schools of Nursing and Allied Health, and are developed in consultation with SOM faculty.

Students may wish to pursue additional learning opportunities by taking library research skills classes. These more general library classes are an excellent way to maintain research and database searching abilities.

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