Clinical Educators Faculty Development Module (On-Demand)-Formulating & Research Clinical Questions

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The presentation explains how to formulate clinical questions using the PICOT framework: Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome. The speaker demonstrates how to turn a clinical question into search terms and how to use PubMed more effectively. An example question about whether educational materials on vaping can help teenagers reduce smoking is used to show how to identify relevant terms like vaping, teenagers/adolescents, and education.<br /><br />The session compares PubMed’s basic search with advanced search, showing that basic searches can return too many results, while advanced searches using title/abstract or MeSH terms can make searches more precise. The speaker emphasizes examining article titles, abstracts, author keywords, and MeSH headings to refine search strategies. Examples show how MeSH terms such as “adolescent” and “smoking” or “vaping” help narrow results.<br /><br />The talk also introduces PubMed’s Clinical Queries and PICO search interface, noting that different filters and platforms can produce different results. The speaker encourages users to pay attention to vocabulary choices, search options, and the role of titles, abstracts, and keywords in research articles. Finally, several online PubMed tutorials and references are recommended for further learning.

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Keywords

PICOT framework

PubMed search

clinical questions

MeSH terms

vaping

adolescents

search strategy