for information: Skills for PAS and beyond.

The aim of this quiz and practical exercise is to reinforce and extend your understanding of some key websites and the basic principles of literature searching. This should help you in the short term with specific PAS tasks, and beyond that with finding and employing appropriate material during your studies, whenever you are asked to do so independently.

You are also recommended to look at the Research Skills section of the online Academic Skills Gateway, which includes sections on "Searching the web" and "Finding and using different resources". There are useful hints and tips applicable to all subjects, and the module on "Doing quality literature search" includes some specifically medical information resources.