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Mobile Classroom

We can bring the classroom to you! Our wireless portable classroom gives us the flexibility to deliver instruction at the point-of-need. Let us tailor the learning experience to suit your specific training needs, or borrow the classroom for your own purposes. Learn more

Course Descriptions

All classes are held in the library small conference room K104d, unless otherwise noted.
To set up a training session, contact Shandra Protzko at x1343 or protzkos@njc.org

Finding Full Text Articles Online

Searching MEDLINE on PubMed

OVID: Searching MEDLINE

Course Descriptions

OVID: Searching MEDLINE
Learn access, basic commands, and searching techniques for searching Ovid/MEDLINE. 60 minutes.

Finding Full Text Articles Online
Full-text journal articles may be retrieved online in the library, from the NJ campus, or at home. Learn to use full text links using the E-Journal Finder, the IMPULSE Catalog, and other resources including PubMed, Ovid, and MD Consult. 60 minutes.

Searching MEDLINE on PubMed
Learn to search MEDLINE through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed/Entrez search engine. This class focuses on author, journal, and subject searches; limiting sets; refining and combining search strategies; and finding full text links to articles. 60 minutes.

Consumer Health Information on the Web 
Please contact the library for individual instruction or in-service options. 
 How to find quality health information on the web for your patients, your family and yourself. Participants will look at many different resources including health topics at government and association sites, as well as sites with information on drugs, environmental issues, alternative/herbal medicine, tutorials, support groups, and free full text peer reviewed articles. Hands on practice will enable the group to meet both their needs and the needs of their patients, friends and relatives. No medical experience required!

Beginning EndNoteX

Please contact the library for individual instruction .
EndNote is a bibliographic management program that lets you keep a database of references. Learn to store and manage references and images, format references in different styles, create your own bibliographies, or import references from databases such as MEDLINE. 60 minutes.

Customized Instruction
In addition to regularly scheduled classes, individualized instruction is provided for MEDLINE. One-on-one or group consultations may be requested by calling 303-398-1343. Classes and consultations are held in the library or in your office at no charge. Call x1343 or e-mail Shandra Protzko at protzkos@njc.org

For more information

Shandra Protzko
Gerald Tucker Memorial Medical Library
National Jewish Health
1400 Jackson St, Denver, CO 80206
Phone: (303) 398-1343
Fax: (303) 370-2149
protzkos@njc.org
http://www.nationaljewish.org/news/med-lib/lib/index.aspx

Note: This information is provided to you as an educational service of National Jewish Health. It is not meant to be a substitute for consulting with your own physician.

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