Library Courses
These classes are restricted to currently enrolled College of Medicine and Allied Health students. To arrange a library instruction session tailored for your course, contact the library at (251) 460-7044 or medlib@bbl.usouthal.edu. For more information about classes and instruction available to all USA students, faculty, staff, and SOUTHMED members, view the Library Instruction page.
BBL 480 - Information Technology in Medicine
This credited, COM elective provides an overview of modern technology and software that new physicians might find useful.
Cardio-respiratory Care
Evidence-Based Practice and Research Skills in Cardio-respiratory care.
PHE 131 - Public Health & Epidemiology
Becoming Efficient Information Managers Designed to familiarize 1st year College of Medicine students enrolled in the Public Health & Epidemiology course with library resources and services that will enable them to conduct database and literature searches.
BMD 201
Seminars in Biomedical Sciences An introduction to biomedical library resources and databases.
Physical Therapy 610
Evidence Based Practice and Library Research Skills An overview of Evidence Based Practice and Library research skills.
Practical Evidence Based Medicine for Third-Year Rotations
One of the objectives of the College of Medicine is "the ability to acquire and manage the information that physicians need to carry out their various responsibilities and to acquire, evaluate and utilize information contained in the medical literature." This series of lectures was designed to introduce medical students to the concepts of evidence based medicine (EBM) that can be used to achieve this objective. Focus of the lectures is on using EBM to evaluate complementary and alternative medicine.