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| UIC Journal for Pre-Health Affiliated Students (JPHAS) |
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	Helpful Tips & Sources for Doing Your Research
	updated 9/04 pw
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0.	TABLE OF CONTENTS (4 sections)
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1.  	SOURCES: starting guide to where to look

	1.1	Clinical Sciences
	1.2	Physical Sciences, Molecular Biology, Technology
	1.3	Politics, Economics
	1.4	History, Sociology
	1.5	Literature, Music, & the Arts
	1.6	School Statistics/Rankings
	1.7  	UIC Libraries: *They have nearly everything you need*
		
		1.7.1 	UIC Library of Health Sciences (LHS)
		1.7.2	UIC Science & Engineering South (SES) Library
		1.7.3	UIC Daley Library
		1.7.4	UIC Art & Architecture Library
		1.7.5	Interlibrary Loan

2.  	INTERVIEWS
	
	2.1	How to do them well: the basics
	2.2	Example good live interviews
	2.3	*Legal stuff & Safety
	2.4 	Some UIC sources for interviews

3.  	YOUR OWN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

	3.1	How-to: writing it up
	3.2 	JPHAS-sponsored research

		3.2.1	Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
		3.2.2	Some ideas on UIC's campus
	
4.	EXAMPLE ARTICLES

	4.1	News
	4.2	Features
	4.3	Prehealth Outlook
	4.4	Research
	4.5	Invited Opinion



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1.  	SOURCES: starting guide to where to look
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	1.1	Clinical Sciences
	1.2	Physical Sciences, Molecular Biology, Technology
	1.3	Politics, Economics
	1.4	History, Sociology
	1.5	Literature, Music, & the Arts
	1.6	School Statistics/Rankings
	1.7  	UIC Libraries: *They have nearly everything you need*
		1.7.1 	UIC Library of Health Sciences (LHS)
		1.7.2	UIC Science & Engineering South (SES) Library
		1.7.3	UIC Daley Library
		1.7.4	UIC Art & Architecture Library
		1.7.5	Interlibrary Loan

1.1	Clinical Sciences
	A lot of journals & books are at the Library of Health Sciences.  (see 1.7.1)

1.1.1	MEDLINE! (& Pubmed, OVID, etc)

	Use UIC's own search engines for clinical journal articles, available
	through the UIC Library of Health Sciences own website (see 1.7.1)
	Pubmed works pretty well.  Click "PubMed with e-Journals".
		http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhs/

1.1.2	Journals that are especially credible:
		New England Journal of Medicine
		Journal of the American Medical Association
		Cell
		Nature
		Science

1.2	Physical Sciences, Molecular Biology, Technology
	A lot of journals at SES Library.  (see 1.7.2)

	Online database from UIC Library website:
		http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/reference/resources/subject.shtml#SciTech					
		
1.2.1	molecular bio, biochem, bio-related physical sciences; more sources
	
		Pubmed:  (see 1.1.1)
		American Society for Microbiology:  http://journals.asm.org/search.dtl

1.2.2	Internet technology; more sources

		First Monday:  http://www.firstmonday.org/

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2.	INTERVIEWS
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	2.1	How to do them well: the basics
	2.2	Example good live interviews
	2.3	*Legal stuff & Safety
	2.4 	Some UIC sources for interviews


2.2	Example good live interviews


2.2.1 	Fresh Air on NPR 
	(need RealAudio to listen: www.real.com )

		http://freshair.npr.org

	Notice how much the host reads about the interviewee beforehand and how 
	prepared she is.  Listen to her skill at focusing interviews, asking more 
	open-ended questions, and also asking impromptu relevant questions based 
	directly on what the interviewee says.

	Some good example interviews (use the "search" feature on the website):

		Conan O'Brien
		Dave Chappelle
		Psychiatrist Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj 


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3.  	YOUR OWN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
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	3.1	How-to: writing it up
		3.1.1	Introduction
		3.1.2	Materials & Methods
		3.1.3	Results
		3.1.4	Discussion
	3.2 	JPHAS-sponsored research
		3.2.1	Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
		3.2.2	Some ideas on UIC's campus


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4.	EXAMPLE ARTICLES
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	4.1	News
	4.2	Features
	4.3	Prehealth Outlook
	4.4	Research
	4.5	Invited Opinion

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