OME Fellows: Medical Education Research Guide

Resources for searching for topics relevant to medical education

About ERIC

The U.S. Department of Education sponsors the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database to provide extensive access to educational-related literature.

Provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs.

Advantages

Limitations

Extensive coverage on Education 

Ability to search using controlled vocabulary

Able to handle phrase searching

Updated monthly

Ability to search using controlled vocabulary

 

ERIC: Search Tools

Basic Search - Assumes terms are separate. For example, searching medical education will be translated by ERIC to medical AND education. To search as a phrase, use quotation marks, "medical education."

Advanced Search and Command Line Search sections provide you with search fields in dropdown lists for you to use in your search to tap into specific bits of indexed document information. 

ERIC Tips

 

 

How to export citations from ERIC to import into EndNote

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