Dental Hygiene
This guide should assist students in the Dental Hygiene program to locate Library materials for research and projects
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Welcome to the Dental Hygiene Research Guide!
The Dental Hygiene research guide will help students in the Dental Hygiene program find current and credible research material to support assignments while in the program. Use the navigation tabs on the left to locate various types of resources. Contact the Library if you need help!
Topic Background - Reference Resources
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (CREDO)The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine is a timely, comprehensive resource for consumers interested in health information.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied HealthThe Encyclopedia covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy and more.
- Merck Manual Professional EditionThe Manual is one of the most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As the Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information of the day to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo helps gather background information from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject-specific titles.
CINAHL and PubMed Tutorials
- CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialsThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
The following quick, interactive PubMed tutorials from the National Library of Medicine will have you confidently searching PubMed in no time!
- PubMed: Find Articles on a TopicA brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.
- PubMed: Get the full text for an articleA brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed.
- Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice TutorialWhen conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
- What is in PubMed?Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there.
- PubMed - Find a Systematic ReviewA systematic Review article is one that fits the criteria for Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
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