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Clinical Skills Library Orientation

This is the companion guide for the Clinical Skills Orientation library lecture.

Choose Databases

The next step in your search process is to choose where you would like to search for information. 

Apply Limiters

Limiters are a way to tell the database to restrict the results based on certain criteria. They can greatly help you to sift through the results so you can get to the relavant results faster. 

Popular limiters include:

  • Publication Date
  • Study Type
  • Language

How to Use Filters in PubMed

PubMed has a number of filters that can be applied while performing a search. These filters can help further refine your search so you get the search results that best match what you are looking for.

View the video below to learn how to activate several filters and discover how they can assist in your search.

To access a PDF version of these instructions, please click here.