Numbering Code	P-PUB01 8H093 LB90	Year/Term	2022 ・ The first half of first semester
Number of Credits	1	Course Type	Lecture
Target Year	Professional degree students	Target Student
Language	Japanese and English	Day/Period	Mon.4
Instructor name	TAKAHASHI YOSHIMITSU (Graduate School of Medicine Associate Professor) NAKAYAMA TAKEO (Graduate School of Medicine Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	Literature Search ・This course is one of the elective classes of School of Public Health. ・As being based on fundamental knowledge of epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, this course provides students with skills of literature search. ・The useful databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane library, Igaku Chuo Zasshi, and the other information resources that are available on-line will be introduced. ・We hope students who attend this course will lay the foundation for promoting their own public health research by learning skills of information search. ・Lecture and practical in Japanese. I will try to offer several handouts in English.
Course Goals	・To acquire skills of searching medical or health information from various database or internet.
Schedule and Contents	We deliver an online lecture. Hands-on practice for literature search using your own PC through the Internet. Please prepare your PC and the Internet. 1) Apr 11.　Orientation 2) Apr 18.　Introduction to Igaku Chuo Zasshi 3) Apr 25.　Introduction to PubMed (1) 4) May 9.　Clinical question, clinical guidelines, and systematic review 5) May 16.　Introduction to Cochrane library 6) May 23.　Introduction to PubMed (2) 7) May 30.　Introduction to a software for literature management (Mendeley) 8) Jun 6.　Basic of critical appraisal and statements
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Participation in class and discussion, short report for each lecture (30%) & Report (70%)
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Review how to search the literature after classes.
References, etc.	Rinsho kenkyu to ekigaku kenkyu notameno kokusai ruru shu, (in Japanese ) Nakayama T, Tsutani K, (Lifescience shuppan)