Learning Objectives:

1. become familiar with different study types in the medical literature
2. become familiar with the “hierarchy” of studies for answering clinical questions
3. become familiar with limitations of certain study types in specific
4. learn to construct clinically relevant questions to search medical literature
5. improve searching strategies for finding answers to clinical questions

• Study Design Lecture Slides (pdf)
• Quick Intro to PubMed [video 6.05 minutes]
• ACP Journal Club and using one good article to find more [video 5.03 minutes]

• Hierarchy of Evidence
• More on Study Design
• Comparing a case control to a retrospective cohort study posted 2008
  
• Case-control vs Cohort/ retrospective vs prospective cohort from Ben Powers
  
• Study design time line

• JAMAevidence: Finding the Evidence
  

• Question Building (PICO) (Website)

• PubMed
  • PubMed Basics (PDF)
  • Setting UpFilters in PubMed: My NCBI (PDF)
  • More PubMed materials