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Literature searching in medicine: getting started

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
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Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 10.30am to 11.30am

Puzzled by PICO? Daunted by databases? Baffled by Boolean? This one-hour online introductory class will offer top tips and advice on how to find literature to answer a research question. No prior experience necessary! Together, we will break down a question into the PICO format, put together a structured search, and try it out in PubMed.

By the end of this session, you will be able to: explain what structured searching is, and when to use it; break your research question down into searchable concepts; and make use of Boolean operators (ANDs/ORs) in your structured searches.

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

Speaker(s): Kat Steiner, Suzannah Bridge

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

Venue: Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre - Group Study Room - Group Study Room Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7DQ United Kingdom

Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)

Organiser: Helen Bond

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