Occupational Therapy Education

Professional & Technical Writing
Research Practicum
(OCTH 790)

Useful Websites!

A guide to critical evaluation of web content, with thanks to Susan Beck (Collection Development Coordinator, New Mexico State University Library) for providing this helpful resource.

Resources for Evidence-based Practice

How to practice evidence-based care
  1. http://anes01.wustl.edu/EBJ/EB_Resources.html

  2. http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk

Search engines to find practice-related information

  1. http://omni.ac.uk

  2. http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm

Search engines to find primary source research reports

  1. http://library.kumc.edu/databases/ovid.htm KUMC's Dykes Library now uses the Ovid interface for MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and IPA searching.

  2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=kumclib PubMed, accessed through the KUMC portal.
    (note the useful "Find related articles" button once you've done a search)

Aids in helping you to present your findings once they've been collected!

A guide to citing electronic references:
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html (this material also is covered in the APA Publication manual, 5th Edition) A free web-based bibliography composer:
easybib website

The AOTA presenter's handbook:
Download the 2003 version of the AOTA Presenter's Handbook in .pdf format, or visit the AOTA website to obtain a current version of this document.

A guide to making effective presentations:
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html

Comments? Send e-mail to Jeff Radel
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