Powering Up Clinical Practice: Mastering Clinical Literature Search Techniques – 2026 Jan HSLIC Workshop

Evelyn Wang, UNM HSLIC

Abstract

This HSLIC workshop introduces practical clinical literature search techniques, focusing on how to translate clinical questions into structured database searches and efficiently navigate core resources. Topics include identifying key concepts, using Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards, phrase searching, proximity operators, subject headings (MeSH/Emtree), building multi-concept search strategies, and accessing full text through HSLIC tools and service.