Student Consultation Sessions

INTRODUCTION

Year 4 students embarking on their scholarly projects can request and book for a student consultation session with our medical librarian. Student consultations are available on weekdays from 9:00am to 5.00pm.

Venue: Virtually via MS Teams or Zoom
Duration: Each session is 30 minutes and can only be reserved by one student.
Procedure: Students will be allocated sessions on a “first-come-first-serve” basis, but priority will be given to students who book their first consultation session. All students are strongly encouraged to complete the PICO and Search Strategy Worksheet before attending their consultation sessions.

If you are NOT a year 4 student and wish to have a consultation session on a self-adopted research project, you are most welcomed to sign up. But priority will be given for our Year 4 students for their scholarly projects.

NEW!

Year 4 students can refer to our customised TIP SHEETS on literature search, writing and citation skills to suit your research category:

Meet your medical librarians for further assistance in your scholarly project!

BOOK YOUR CONSULTATION SESSION

Consultation slots

Medical Library librarians will be conducting consultations via MS Teams.

Please note that confirmation of your booking will be automatically done by the system. Should the librarian be unavailable for the session after you have made your booking, we will send a cancellation via the system.
Do email medlib@ntu.edu.sg for further assistance.

OUR DATA SHOWS…

PEAK PERIOD (Year 4 Student Consultations – 2016)

The Year 4 students (n=16) indicated their preferred date and time of consultation for their scholarly project. Fig 1 shows the highest response (n=14) received from students based on three preferred choices of consultations (C1, C2 and C3) to be conducted in August. Fig 2 identified three highly preferred timings indicated by year 4 students for their consultations. 33% preferred consultations from 8:30am to 9:00am followed by 27% (5:00pm to 5:30pm) and 20% (12:00pm to 12:30pm).

Fig 1: Student Consultation Preferred Consultation Month, Year 4 Students, Medical Library, 2016 ©

Fig 2: Student Consultation Peak Timing, Year 4 Students, Medical Library, 2016 ©

USEFUL SEARCH TECHNIQUE TIPS!!!

Please refer to the following materials below:

Tips on literature search and citation management tools. You can also plug into the audio file.
Watch this video from the University of South Indiana (USI), about information literacy in a nutshell to refresh your search strategy skillshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWv5S50Zww
Source: [DavidLRiceLibrary]. (2010, July 02). Information Literacy in a Nutshell. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWv5S50Zww

Refer to the search strategy cycle shown below or refer to the Year 4 students User Guide / User Guides developed for you for more information.

Fig 3: Search Strategy Cycle for Literature Review, Medical Library ©

BEFORE ATTENDING YOUR CONSULTATION SESSION, VISIT THESE USEFUL RESOURCES!!!

For Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
GREY Literature in Medicine – As your work progresses, you’ll become aware of the main organisations active in the medical/Healthcare specialty (e.g:) government bodies and research institutes. Do a thorough search of their web pages and articles/published works.
Evaluation tools

Year 4 Students Testimonials! (2016)

Jonathan: “Thank you very much to both Rebecca and Caroline, the session was incredibly helpful.” “Thanks so much for the reference, it is very helpful!”

Kevin: ” Thank you for the effort in the detailed consultation. It was really helpful in getting me started on how to approach my project!…Thank you once again for the last consultation – it was really very useful…Thank you for your time and help – much appreciated.”

Sean: “Really pleased to see our medical library reaching out to offer help to students – Outstanding!”

Robert: “Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it”

Rachel: “Thank you very much for your help and trip to EMB. I’ll make sure I check it out (information)!”

Leon: “Thank you for your kind help today. I really learnt a lot and managed to retrieve all the relevant journal articles I needed!”

Lavisha: “I’ve managed to get my citations from citethisforme. Thanks”

Ching Han: “Thank you for the advice and tips!”

Wee Kiat: “Thank you for your kind and timely assistance. The recommended search terms and articles were helpful.”

Melissa: “Thank you very much for your help.”