Courses and guidance
Library courses and guidance for the Medical faculty and employees at Helse Bergen
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We give a quick overview of the library courses and guidance, please read more details below.
The medical library offers courses for students as a part of their study program. For employees and PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine and employees at Helse Bergen, we offer courses open for registration. In case a group of employees requires instruction beyond our course offers, it is possible to ask for a customized course or department visit.
Employees and PhD candidates can request a guidance session with a librarian for literature search to a specific project, where the librarian may guide or execute the searches. Students may ask for guidance, however, we expect they do the searches themselves. The Medical Library offers consultations at the library and via Teams, Zoom, telephone or email.
Library courses in the curriculum
The medical library instructs students mainly in literature search, citing and reference management. The course content is adjusted to the study program and the subject's learning outcome.
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Courses requiring registration
Course offer for spring 2025:
In the table below, you find the courses held in English. Switch to the Norwegian page version to see additional courses.
Course | Date and time | Registration deadline |
Introduction to Zotero (medicine and health sciences) | 12. February 2025 | 7. February 2025 |
Introduction to Systematic reviews for medicine and health sciences | 19. February 2025 | 14. February 2025 |
Search in PubMed & Embase | 5. March 2025 | 28. February 2025 |
Introduction to EndNote (medicine and health sciences) | 12. March 2025 | 7. March 2025 |
Online courses
The Medical library offers also online courses. You can use them in self studies or as additional support to other library courses.
- Litteratursøk i medisinske databaser (UB MED 102)
The course language is Norwegian, we work on translating the course to English.
The course covers preparatory work before doing a literature search, and searching in the three big subject databases PubMed, Embase and Web of Science. The skills you learn are transferrable to other databases.
- Student literature reviews in medicine and health sciences (UB MED 103)
This course is intended for students in medicine and health sciences writing a literature review as their bachelor or master's thesis. It consists of different modules guiding you through the work with your literature review. The last module is designed for advisors.
Customized courses
If there is a demand at your department for a brush-up in literature searching techniques, reference management or if you want to get a quick overview over relevant databases for your subject, you can request a library course or meeting.
Contact us by email to book a course that is customized to your needs. The required minimum number of participants for such a course is five. We can book the library's course room or visit you at your department.
Individual guidance
The Medical library offers individual guidance mainly to PhD candidates and staff at the Medical faculty and the hospital.
Students have the possibility to attend courses in literature searching and reference management as a part of their study program. If you could not attend such a course, you may want to attend one of our open courses.
Students asking for guidance in literature search by a librarian must first have tried to search on their own and send us their topic/research question, search strategy and information on which type of help is required in advance (appointments are limited to 45 min).
The medical library offers individual literature search guidance sessions for:
- Project protocol
- Research projects
- Scientific articles
- Systematic reviews
- PhD theses
- Student theses
- Clinical questions
- Clinical procedures
- Mini-HTA (Health technological assessments)
Guidance for other purposes will be assessed individually.
NB: The Medical Library offers consultations at the library, via Teams, Zoom, telephone or email.
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