Education

Learn more about information searching and reference management with videos and online courses, or order a workshop for your work group.

All courses are free, web-based and intended for employees of Region Norrbotten and medical students at Sunderby Hospital.

Each course is divided into sections with text, images, videos and interactive exercises. You can study at your own pace and pause whenever you need. The courses do not give credits and are not personal. This means that your answers are not saved if you close the browser or take a longer break.

The courses are developed by the University Library at Luleå University of Technology. Some links may therefore go to the university library’s website. When you search for information, always start in the Medical E-Library.

Online courses in information retrieval

Here you will find online courses and videos on the Medical E-Library’s services, advanced information retrieval and evidence-based care.

Introduction to the Medical E-Library

A basic course that introduces the services of the Medical E-Library. It shows you how to borrow books, request interlibrary loans and register a library account.

• Introduction to the Medical E-Library
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Advanced information retrieval – HLT

An advanced course that deepens your knowledge of information retrieval. It covers block searching in PubMed and CINAHL as well as the use of the Swedish MeSH vocabulary.

• Advanced information retrieval – HLT
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Evidence-based information retrieval

An advanced course that teaches you how to search for evidence-based material in different databases. You will also learn to structure your research question using the PICO model.

• Evidence-based information retrieval
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Instructional videos

With the library’s instructional videos, you can follow each step and try it yourself. You can pause or rewind if you want to repeat a step or review part of the video again. The videos are subtitled in English.

Learn how to find journals and organise them on bookshelves.

Get an introduction to the subject heading list used in PubMed and other databases.

PubMed

Learn how to create block searches using the search history.

Narrow your results with different filters.

Create alerts that notify you when new articles are published.

Online courses in reference management

Learn more about reference management with the library’s online courses. The courses include guidance on RefWorks, a web-based program that helps you organise and manage your references.

Using references

A basic course in reference management. You will learn how to cite sources in text, create a reference list and apply good referencing practices.

• Using references
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RefWorks

A basic course in RefWorks. You will learn how the program works and how it can support you in managing your references.

• RefWorks
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