Dental Assisting Program: Need Help?

You do have a lot of options for searching for information.  It can get overwhelming!  Here's a guide that will help explain your options.

When you are planning to search for information, whether in the library catalogue, journal article databases, or the Internet, it is a good idea to do some preparation beforehand by formulating a search strategy.

This page will help you break your topic into individual concepts. It will also help you determine relationships between the concepts, and possible similar or related terms that express each concept.

This video walks you through the steps of searching CINAHL.

To get started searching Medline, here are a couple of useful videos:

• Medline Basics
• Medline - Mesh, Explode and Focus