PubMed Help Guide

Literature Search: Planning  & Process

Creating a Search Strategy in PubMed - Learn about controlled vocabulary, how to apply your PICO question to MeSH searches, and more

Evidence-Based Practice: PICO - Learn how to create relevant and focused research questions

PubMed: Building a Search - Watch this step-by-step tutorial on how to build a search in PubMed

Searching for Evidence in the Health Professions - A helpful, step-by-step guide to learning about the research process, from planning to searching to evaluating the evidence; from the Towson University Library

Systematic Searches - A comprehensive series of videos which cover all the steps on performing systematic searches

PubMed Training

Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice - A training course to help you use PubMed to support your evidence-based practice; information on PICO (designing your clinical question), building your search, and retrieving articles

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in MEDLINE/PubMed - Learn how Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used for indexing records in MEDLINE

PubMed Subject Search: How It Works - For more information on MeSH, view this interactive tutorial on PubMed subject searching

Find Articles on a Topic - A brief, interactive tutorial to help you learn how to find articles on a topic in PubMed