The Library provides many free workshops to the students, staff, and faculty of Rush
All workshops meet on the 9th floor of
the Armour Academic Center (AAC) in
room 902 AAC (near the METC). Each workshop
is approximately 1.5 hours long. All workshops
are free.
Group and individual instruction available. Our free one-hour InfoConsults provide
individualized instruction tailored to your level of experience and area of interest. Available Monday -
Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Ask about our consultations on using other databases and information tools.
For more information or to schedule a workshop please contact Jonna Peterson at
(312) 942-2274 or
email the Library at Lib_Ref@rush.edu
*Status:
Student
Faculty
Resident/Intern/Fellow
Employee
House Staff
Alumni
Volunteer
Please note that Library workshops are open to Rush affiliates only.
Library Workshops:
Library Survival Skills
Designed for office staff in a medical department. Learn how to locate articles, verify citations, and order
documents online. Includes an optional tour of the Library. Participants must know how to use the Internet.
Online Searching
Provides a detailed overview of the Library's
extensive online resources. Emphasizes
concise focused searching of Ovid MEDLINE and
other health care information resources.
PubMed
PubMed is the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM®). This workshop emphasizes using PubMed to retrieve concise and relevant search results. Participants will learn how to use the basic and MeSH search features, as well as, how to save search results using My NCBI.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management software used to generate reference lists. In this workshop, participants will create a RefWorks account, learn to import citations directly from a few of the Library's most popular databases, organize collections of references, and generate a bibliograhy.
EndNote
EndNote simplifies writing papers by organizing your citations into a personal database. You can add references
or format a bibliography with just a click of the mouse. This is an advanced class: students must know how to
search MEDLINE using OvidWeb and have experience managing files using Windows.
METC Workshops:
PowerPoint
This workshop covers how to add slides to
a presentation based on a design template.
How to create autoshapes, draw lines and
shapes, add images slides, and animate
the slide or presentation.
Restricted to Rush University students & faculty only.
Excel
This workshop will introduce the basic concepts
and use of spreadsheets in Excel. Excel
terms and definitions will be explained
as well as how to create and enter data
into a new Workbook, use formulas, format
data, and create a chart from Excel data
Restricted to Rush University students & faculty only.
Dealing with Images
This workshop will cover how to find medical images from various online sources and how to scan them for presentation. A basic overview of copyright law regarding the use of images as well as an explanation on image resolution and importing images into documents and presentations will be included.
Library News lets you know via e-mail about new products and services available at the
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Please sign me up for the classes I have selected. Library workshops begin promptly. Late arrivals will not be admitted once a class is in session.
