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UHN Library and Information Services (UHN Libraries) supports the information needs of the clinicians, researchers, staff and learners of TeamUHN. Whether it's for patient care, discovery, learning or decision-making, we're your partner in finding the best evidence. Our mission: to enable innovation and learning through expert information leadership, and promote and enable access to the best evidence for decision-making.

We offer practical and interactive virtual workshops designed to make you a skilled user of our resources and services. To register for an upcoming workshop, use the links below in the Workshop Dates and Registration section.

WORKSHOPS DATES & REGISTRATION

WORKSHOPS OFFERED AT UHN LIBRARIES

If you can’t make it to a workshop, you can watch the recorded session linked in the dropdown below. If you have attended one of our workshops let us know how we did! 

Can't find what you are looking for? You can request a customized one-on-one or group workshop.

SEARCH WORKSHOPS

This workshop will be introducing the Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Pyramid 5.0 and how it can help you efficiently find the information you need. During the session we will go through the process of choosing and using resources to find evidence based answers for clinical questions as quickly as possible.

00:00 Welcome
00:51
Land Acknowledgement
02:34
Objectives
02:50
Finding the Evidence Pyramid 5.0
03:23
What is the Pyramid, what resources are on it?
04:15 How to use the Pyramid
04:30 The example problem
04:48
Synthesized Summaries: BMJ Best Practice
06:38 Synthesized Summaries: Natural Medicines
07:57
Systematically Derived Recommendations (Guidelines): ClinicalKey
09:44 Systematic Reviews: PubMed
11:31
Individual Studies: PubMed Clinical Queries
13:05
What if you made it to the bottom of the pyramid?
13:30
Which ones to search at the bedside, which ones to use later
13:50
Time for trying out the resources, with example scenario
15:45
Q&A What's the site again? UHNLibraries.ca
16:23 Q&A I'm just getting pyramid articles, where's the Pyramid again?
17:15 Q&A Do we need to use AND (Boolean) when using these resources?
17:58
Q&A Best resource for nutrition related questions?
18:12
Finding PEN Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition
18:57
Using PEN
20:57 Thanks for watching!

This introductory session will provide an overview of the PubMed interface. The focus will be on building an effective search strategy using the PubMed search interface and using clinical queries to retrieve targeted results to clinical questions. Advanced search features and troubleshooting methods will be discussed.

00:00 Welcome
00:30 Land Acknowledgement
02:20 What is PubMed
03:23
Session Objectives
03:49
Searchable questions in PubMed - concept boxes
05:30 Demo - why to access through library website (full text)
06:34 Demo - basic versus comprehensive searches in PubMed
07:11
Demo - what PubMed does when you search
08:25
Demo - what if you're not getting the results you expect
09:27 Demo - narrowing your results using limits/filters
11:10 Demo - using Clinical Queries to find the types of papers that will answer your question
12:40 Demo - sorting your results
12:54
Demo - do you need to Boolean
13:32
Demo - troubleshooting
13:54
Demo - what if PubMed translates your search terms incorrectly
15:22 Demo - using quotation marks in PubMed
17:10
Demo - keep your search simple to avoid mistranslation
19:39
Demo - using subject headings (and fixing a mistranslation)
21:22
Demo - combining searches in Advanced Search
22:35 Demo - using search fields in Advanced Search
22:57
Demo - searching for authors
25:25
Demo - using Find it at UHN button to find full text
25:44
Demo - saving your citations
27:27
Demo - send results to citation manager
27:38 Thank you for watching!

 

Finding evidence is an integral step of Evidence Based Practice. MEDLINE is a leading source for finding biomedical scholarly literature. This session will present theory and techniques for building effective search strategies; it will go over key concepts including searching by subject terms and keywords and applying Boolean operators.

00:00 Welcome
00:36
Objectives
01:35 Search Options
02:42 Searchable Questions
07:50
Depth - how much stuff do you need to find for your project - basic vs iterative vs exhaustive searching
11:29
Search Tools - Subject Headings
14:46
Search Tools - Keywords
18:33
Search Tools - Boolean
20:50
Filters (or Limits)
22:26
Search Steps
24:18
Finding Medline on UHNLibraries.ca
24:50
Ovid Medline Demo
25:04
Start with one concept- look for Subject Headings
26:20 Scope Notes - find definitions and more info
28:29
Use Previous Page if available so Ovid doesn't get confused
28:50 The Tree - subject heading hierarchies
30:50
Subheadings - don't use them
32:07
Keyword searching
32:40
Use shortcuts
32:58
Truncation - the asterisk
33:20
Proximity/Adjacency - adj#
34:28
Field codes - .mp.
37:24
Boolean - OR
37:57
Concept 2 - Pain subject headings
38:18 What if exploding the subject heading would include irrelevant headings? What if the broad heading is too broad?
40:14 Concept 2 keywords
41:42
AND between concepts
41:55 Filters/Limits
46:40
Finding full text
47:17
Save your search
48:37
Email, print, or export search results
49:35 Key for reading keywords - what do these symbols mean
50:26 The complete strategy for our example
50:53
Troubleshooting bad search results
54:31
Questions? Contact us!
55:13
Thanks for watching

 

This workshop will define what grey literature is and is not; it will identify grey literature sources and evaluate them and it will explain the process involved with producing a well-documented and transparent grey literature search.

00:00 Welcome
00:30
Objectives
00:50 Activity: What counts as grey literature?
02:42
What is Grey literature?
05:50
What do I even look for (if I need grey literature)?
08:56
When should I consider grey literature?
11:30
How can I apply grey literature?
12:35
Examples of grey literature used in research
16:50
Where can you look for grey literature?
22:24
Search process
25:00 Document what you do to find grey literature
27:09 Documenting: Remember that links/URLs are not permanent
28:29
The Wayback Machine
30:33
Documentation: Citation Managers
31:32
Activty: Google gives different searchers different answers to the same search terms
34:40
Activity follow up: Try going straight to the source: who has this information?
37:35 Algorithms can reinforce biases
39:14
Think critically - grey literature is not necessarily peer reviewed or even fact checked
40:30
Our Go-To grey literature resources
42:22
Q&A Any advice regarding non-English information?
44:32
Thanks for joining!

KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS WORKSHOPS

Thinking about doing a systematic review? Scoping review? Rapid review? Are you sure? This session will teach you what it means to do a systematic review or other type of knowledge synthesis, and help you understand what review “type” best fits your research question, timeline and goals.

00:00 Welcome
01:18 Land Acknowledgement
03:13 Session Objectives
03:50
Orienteering Reviews
04:35 There are many types of reviews
05:26 What is a "review"
07:05 What are "knowledge syntheses"
07:42 CIHR definition of knowledge synthesis
08:25 Reasons to choose one type of review over another
09:09
SALSA: search, appraisal, synthesis, analysis
10:34
Traditional Review
11:12
Activity: Which example research questions could be done as a traditional review?
14:06 Purpose of different types of reviews
15:16
Applying SALSA to reviews
16:29
Activity: which question suits which review?
17:20
Activity question one: which question is best suited to a systematic review?
20:00 Activity question two: which question is best suited to a scoping review?
22:55 TREAD: time, resources, expertise, audience, data
24:44
TREAD for traditional reviews
25:30
TREAD for systematic reviews
27:50
TREAD for systematic reviews with meta-analysis
28:36 TREAD for scoping reviews
29:57 TREAD for rapid reviews
31:47
Rapid Reviews can be a problem child
34:30
Game: What type of review am I?
46:30
Right Review tool (to help you figure out what type of review to do)
49:17
Review resources on UHNLibraries.ca
49:39
UHN Libraries support for knowledge synthesis projects
51:00 Systematic Review Overview guide
51:25
Review types guide
52:11 Q&A
53:01 Find more Workshops and recordings
54:35 Thanks for watching

Systematic reviews, if well done, provide a reliable and minimally bias source of information on topics of concern to clinical practice. Patient safety and responsible health care services are on the line. Learn about the 8 steps involved in a systematic review, and why you need to elucidate each before you get started.

00:00 Welcome
01:36 Land Acknowledgement
03:17 Session Objectives
04:14 Activity: how long does a systematic review take?
06:05 What is a Systematic Review
07:24 Before Getting Started (what do you need to do)
10:36 Methodological and reporting guidelines for systematic reviews
12:02 Steps involved in a systematic review
12:22
The Research Question
14:56 The Systematic Review Protocol
17:40
Literature Searching
20:00 Literature Searching - Why include a librarian on your team
21:26 Literature Searching - handling citations
22:00 Literature Searching - reporting how citations were handled
22:26 Screening
25:00
Screening - AI Applications in Screening
28:00
AI tools in Systematic Reviews
30:00 Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (Cochrane)
30:40 Quality Assessment
32:06
Data Extraction/Abstraction
33:30
Data Analysis
34:03 Interpretation of Results
34:50
Knowledge translation & dissemination
36:00 The Publication Cycle
36:29 Thank you for joining!
37:47
Q&A Are your services only for those affiliated with UHN
34:33
Thank you for watching!

This session will enable participants to explore the concepts related to scoping reviews and will equip participants with the knowledge and tools required to successfully plan for and undertake a scoping review.

00:00 Welcome
01:23 Session Objectives
01:43
What is a Scoping Review?
03:18 How do you know if you want to do a scoping review?
03:54 Before getting started (what do you need to do to be ready)
04:54
Follow the Guidelines
05:55
PRISMA for Scoping Reviews and Searching (reporting guidelines)
06:26 Protocols
06:54 Elements of a protocol
09:14 Registering scoping review protocols
09:39
Steps involved in doing a scoping review
09:56
1. Identify the Research Question
11:16
2. Identify Relevant Studies
12:23
Why have a librarian on your review team?
12:43
Knowledge synthesis support at UHN Libraries
13:13 Data management: How will you handle citations?
14:17 Why you need to manage your citations well: PRISMA reporting requirements
15:14
3. Study Selection: inclusion/exclusion criteria and screening
15:54
4. Charting Data
17:07 5. Collating, Summarizing, and Reporting Results
18:08
6. Consultation
19:34
Knowledge translation & dissemination
20:37 Activity: What kind of resources do you need to do a scoping review?
21:40 Q&A: Should we use screening tools like Covidence for scoping reviews?
23:20
Q&A: Do scoping reviews need to go through REB?
23:55
Q&A: Can you say more about the Consultation stage and its scope
24:45 End of presentation portion
25:27
Q&A: Is there a framework or code of ethics for criticizing other studies in the field?
26:24
Q&A: How do you manage the timing of publishing/registering the protocol?
28:26
Q&A: Is there a librarian at Toronto Western anymore?
29:21
Q&A: Is there an important difference between putting a protocol on a preprint server or trying to publish it like with JBI?
29:45
Q&A: In terms of budgeting approx. a year, what stages of the scoping review tend to take the longest for a typical-sized topic?
30:56
Q&A: Any tips or recommendations for taking the broad framework of a scoping review down into actionable questions/criteria for first stage screening?
34:52 Thanks for watching!

In this practical workshop we: brainstorm inclusion and exclusion criteria; briefly look at screening tools including Covidence; examine where different characteristics can quickly be located during Title and Abstract screening; work through a sample pilot test to improve agreement rates. .

00:00 Welcome
00:53
Land Acknowledgement
02:29
Objectives
03:20
What do you need to be able to screen?
05:29
Inclusion criteria vs exclusion criteria
06:49
Activity: brainstorming inclusion and exclusion criteria
11:50
Tips for speed
14:42 Tour of a demo environment in Covidence
19:01
Rayyan - free screening tool
20:03
"Aboutness" - determining if an article is About your question
24:55 What about full-text screening?
28:38 Pilot Screening
39:40
Thank you for watching!

The Screening Phase for Reviews tutorial presents information on the screening process for systematic reviews or other knowledge syntheses, and contains a variety of resources including guidelines, best practices, tips, and tools for successfully preparing to complete this important research stage.

CITATION MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS

This session will be a demonstration of fundamental EndNote features and it is designed for people with little to no experience using EndNote. Participants will learned to import and export citations, add citations into a manuscript and batch export.

This introductory session will provide an overview of the Zotero citation management interface. The focus will be on showing you how to streamline the process of collecting, importing, exporting, and sharing your citations for papers and grants. The session is introductory and meant for those with little or no experience using Zotero.

00:00 Welcome
01:45 Agenda
03:13 Download and Install
04:54 Set up a Zotero account, info about the account, setting up syncing
09:47 Get things into your Zotero Library
10:00
Import from PubMed
17:42 Import from CINAHL
21:00 Drag PDFs into Zotero
23:05 Create collections - Manage your Zotero library
24:30 Add Tags - Manage your Zotero library
25:43 Annotate PDFs
27:01
Q&A How often does the import not correctly list the citations?
28:04
Q&A Can I choose a specific collection to import citations to?
29:00
Q&A Are the collections or folders smart? Can they be set up to pull items based on keywords, for instance?
29:55 Deduplicate - Manage your Zotero library
32:15 Manually edit records - Manage your Zotero library
33:54 Set up a group for collaborating in Zotero
37:50 Get citations out of Zotero and into a manuscript
42:46
Fix a citation and update
44:07
Switch styles
45:00
Unlink citations
46:36
Create a quick bibliography
48:00 Questions
48:10 Q&A Troubleshooting Word plug-in
49:57
Q&A Managing citations for websites, reports and other non-journal items
51:34 Q&A Compare Zotero and Mendeley
52:35 Q&A Best way to share sources with people not on Zotero
53:48 Q&A Are you able to automatically remove the doi links from the reference list
55:20 Q&A How does this work in the Office 365 "light" version of Word?
57:07 Thank you for watching!

PUBLICATION CYCLE WORKSHOP SERIES

This introductory session will provide an overview of the Publication Cycle. You will be guided through the stages of research as a cycle, from planning through promoting your work. By the end of the session you will be familiar with the publication cycle and will learn where to look for resources, tools, and services to help with your publication.

Working on completing a research project involves many building blocks. During this session we will share some of the key tools you should take into consideration to create a good foundation for your project. This session will go over how to identify appropriate research designs for different research questions, finding your publications and more!

During this session (Turning Research Aspiration into Reality) our speaker, Dr. Meghan Jendrysik, shared her expertise in evaluating manuscripts for scientific merit and scope, understanding the publishing lifecycle, choosing the right journal, and working through the peer review process.

Zotero Fundamentals Workshop.

00:00 Welcome
01:45 Agenda
03:13 Download and Install
04:54 Set up a Zotero account, info about the account, setting up syncing
09:47 Get things into your Zotero Library
10:00
Import from PubMed
17:42 Import from CINAHL
21:00 Drag PDFs into Zotero
23:05 Create collections - Manage your Zotero library
24:30 Add Tags - Manage your Zotero library
25:43 Annotate PDFs
27:01
Q&A How often does the import not correctly list the citations?
28:04
Q&A Can I choose a specific collection to import citations to?
29:00
Q&A Are the collections or folders smart? Can they be set up to pull items based on keywords, for instance?
29:55 Deduplicate - Manage your Zotero library
32:15 Manually edit records - Manage your Zotero library
33:54 Set up a group for collaborating in Zotero
37:50 Get citations out of Zotero and into a manuscript
42:46
Fix a citation and update
44:07
Switch styles
45:00
Unlink citations
46:36
Create a quick bibliography
48:00 Questions
48:10 Q&A Troubleshooting Word plug-in
49:57
Q&A Managing citations for websites, reports and other non-journal items
51:34 Q&A Compare Zotero and Mendeley
52:35 Q&A Best way to share sources with people not on Zotero
53:48 Q&A Are you able to automatically remove the doi links from the reference list
55:20 Q&A How does this work in the Office 365 "light" version of Word?
57:07 Thank you for watching!

 

E-LEARNING MODULES

The Screening Phase for Reviews Tutorial

This tutorial presents information on the screening process for systematic reviews or other knowledge syntheses, and contains a variety of resources including guidelines, best practices, tips, and tools for successfully preparing to complete this important research stage. 
Princess Margaret Cancer Campus - Cancer 360 

This self paced course provides exposure to a diverse range of topics in cancer to promote a holistic understanding of cancer and cancer survivorship. Experts from across fields and professions share their knowledge and experience on topics including: cancer prevention, health literacy, the impact of smoking cessation on cancer treatment, and cancer rehabilitation. 

Library staff have worked on the Essential Steps in Finding Best Evidence section the course and this can be found under the Research Methods. 

Through the PMCC you have access to a range of courses and you can access them by creating an account

OTHER TRAINING

EBSCO Academy

Find videos, online tutorials and instructor led courses that will help you use EBSCO resources like CINAHL and ERIC.

NLM Training

Find and explore an array of PubMed learning resources, professional development and lectures.

EndNote Training

Learn about this reference management software and all of its features. You can explore many resources and sign up for a variety of training options.

OVID Tools & Resources

Find training materials that will help you use OvidSP Online Resources such as MEDLINE, Embase, Emcare Nursing, APA PsycInfo.