Section outline

  • Session content

    • Reviewing the literature: Why? for whom? And How?
    • Online bibliography data bases: JSTOR, PBMED, HINARI
    • Use of Boolean operators and Medical sub headings (MESH)
    • Synthesizing the results

    Session learning objectives:

    • Students should be familiar with conducting a literature review for a scholarly health problems (steps in the overall process, types of databases often searched in the area of health, the criteria for evaluating the quality of a study, the way of organizing the materials found)
    • To create the evidence based objectives or hypothesis.
    • To identify a new research problem based on a knowledge gap identified.