Webinar: How to troubleshoot PubMed searches

This presentation in the University Library’s Enhancing Research and Evidence-based Practice webinar series throughout spring 2025 is designed to help researchers, clinicians and information professionals improve their ability to find, evaluate and apply evidence. Covering key aspects of evidence-based practice, literature evaluation and search optimization, these sessions provide strategies for enhancing research workflows and decision making.

This second presentation in the series will look at how to troubleshoot PubMed searches.

Instructor: Emily Gilbert, assistant professor, information services and liaison librarian

When you search PubMed, are you sometimes confused by the results? In this session, you will learn about some of the quirks of PubMed and how these can impact which records are returned in the results. The goal of this session is to give better insights into how PubMed works, as well as potential options, and limitations, for decreasing the number of irrelevant results.

RSVP to attend. Zoom link will be provided upon registration.