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Continuing your education. Part 4: searching the literature

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This series of articles has examined different types of study days and courses that may be available to you and how to manage your time to not only survive but complete the course. This article examines one of the areas students new to study often find the hardest—searching the literature

I’ve just typed ‘dental nursing’ into the Google search engine and found 25 300 000 hits. If I spent 1 minute looking at each website, it would take me just over 48 years to look at them all and that's with no sleep or visits to the loo!

If you were writing an essay on ‘dental nursing’, then it seems very unlikely that you would have a spare 48 years to undertake the research before getting down to write your essay. Even a search on ‘dental erosion’ gets over 3 million hits.

This illustrates the problem for today's dental nursing students and qualified dental practitioners. It's not finding information that is the problem, it's finding too much.

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