Searching systematically in medicine

Thursday, 28 May 2026, 2pm to 3.30pm

This 90-minute session will cover some more advanced techniques for finding medical literature to answer a research question. We will recap some basics, then demonstrate searching in several medical databases, including using subject headings (MeSH) and the differences between platforms.

By the end of this session, you will be able to: explain what subject headings are, and how to use them; search for words that appear near to other words; take a search from one database into another; and save a search and document it.

Intended audience: Medicine and NHS; researcher and research student.

Speaker(s): Suzannah Bridge, Carolyn Smith

Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)

Organiser: Helen Bond

Register here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0104