General Medicine

Cindy began her library career at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a focus on Evidenced Based Medicine. While at the Welch Medical Library she progressed in roles, leaving Hopkins as the Associate Director of Education Services. Cindy went on to work at several federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

This class will explore best practices for planning and conducting literature searches. The topics and tips introduced in this session are intended to support general literature searching practices that participants can use to conduct more effective searches, regardless of database used. This class will address the importance of the literature search, introduce a basic framework to help develop search strategies, discuss how to connect concepts and use other search helpers in your strategies, and explore resources and tools that support good literature searching practices. 

Gisela Butera  joined the NIH Library in December 2020. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Arts in Education from The George Washington University. 

PubMed comprises tens of millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. This hands-on introductory class will provide a journey into this valuable resource providing participants with an overview of its content, tools, and features. The session will cover steps to conduct a search, access full-text articles, and export results to a bibliographic management software such as EndNote.

Computers (NIH staff)    
Public Access Computer (NIH staff and visitors)    
Remote Access to Specialized Workstations (reservation required)      
Bioinformatics Workstations (reservation required)      

The purpose of this class is to introduce the fundamentals of conducting a meta-analysis. The focus will be on randomized clinical trials; however, the presenter will also briefly discuss the application of meta-analyses in laboratory and observational (epidemiological) studies. 

Nancy Terry joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library in 1995. At the NIH, Nancy supports the Program on Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology (PRAE) in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She also supports the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation (ASPE), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services.