This elective is designed to provide the student with basic competencies in biomedical information management. The student is primarily taught the basics of searching the biomedical literature via PubMed. Searching EBM Reviews, MICROMEDEX, PDQ, TOXNET, and other biomedical literature databases are addressed as needed. The student is assigned take-home practice exercises to strengthen their literature searching skills. At the end of the rotation, the student is given a brief practical examination of his/her abilities to search these tools.

Search Strategies for Medical Professionals is a course designed to promote savvy information seeking strategies and skill-sets among health care professionals. The class is built to support strategic on-line information seeking behaviors and overall on-line information literacy. In lieu of the vast quantities of information available on the Internet coupled with the growing number of predatory publishers, these two complimentary goals are necessary to equip medical professionals in obtaining quality on-line information. Goals will be achieved through a lecture and/or videos or a combination of these two mediums as ell as through a homework assignment and a final exam.