Veterans Memorial Hospital: Upcoming Events & Classes

Generative AI in Medical Scholarship, Thursday, October 23, 12:00pm-1:00pm
This session explores the growing role of generative AI in medical
scholarship, from literature searching to manuscript drafting, while also addressing the ethical and professional considerations that come with it. Session will be held on Zoom.

This class is designed for new users or those that need a refresher on utilizing Wegner's resources. We will cover general website and catalog navigation, remote access, general searching, interlibrary loan and other library services available.

Getting started with PubMed: Keyword vs. MeSH searching, creating a myNCBI account, and more.

Overview of using the Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) including keywords, wildcards, combining searches, filters and more.

This class is for EndNote Desktop users only. USD, SDSU, and Sanford affiliated users can download for free. Overview of EndNote desktop including creating a new EndNote library, importing references manually from PubMed or EBSCOhost databases, finding and attaching the full text, and Cite While You Write.

Self-paced tutorial. Walk through the key features of the LibKey Suite, including links already available within the library databases, Libkey.io for DOI and PMID searching, utilizing the browser extension LibKey Nomad, and using the improved journal searching with BrowZine.

Learn why both personal and organizational health literacy is important for better patient health, better patient satisfaction, and lower costs.

Topics include finding author instructions, understanding author's rights and copyrights, free publishing options, case reports, plagiarism, ORCiD, and predatory journals and conferences.

Learn how to track and boost your research impact through the use of tools including profile builders, Altmetrics and social media, personal web pages, institutional repositories, and more.

In this interactive class, instructors will cover key points about some current uses of AI through demonstrations and participants will have the opportunity to practice using AI tools.
•Understand what AI is and what it is not (capabilities & limitations)
•Understand the difference between AI training and real-time data search.
•Explore the types of data LLMs are trained on and the differences between open-access vs. paywalled data and how it may affect research
•Understand the various ways students may be using AI to enhance their learning experience
•Learn what prompt engineering is and how it influences AI responses.