Training Program

In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants better understand and prepare data, interpret results and findings, design and prepare studies, and understand the results in published literature. 

This one-hour online training will provide an overview of the CMS Virtual Library, an online resource designed specifically to support the information needs of CMS staff. This training will discuss CMS Virtual Library services and information resources. If you are unable to attend this training and would like an individual or small group orientation on CMS Virtual Library resources and services, please contact [email protected].   

This one-hour online training will cover some advanced features of using the PubMed interface. This training will demonstrate how to use special, customizable features of PubMed to improve their searches and save and manipulate search results.

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to: 

This one-hour online training will cover techniques on locating biomedical research articles, patents, NIH-funded research projects, genetic information, and print and electronic books related to animal models and model organisms. This training will also discuss the differences between animal models, research organisms, and model organisms, and will review requirements and resources for the NIH Model Organism Sharing Policy.  

This one-hour online training, provided by a presenter from SAS, will demonstrate how using macros makes a code in SAS easier to read, easier to edit, less prone to errors, and often allows it to run more efficiently. Macros are ways to use code to substitute in a value. Examples of macro code will be made available to attendees for modification and later use. 

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:   

This one-hour online training session will help authors navigate the legal and ethical issues surrounding copyright and plagiarism, identify and avoid potential copyright infringement issues, and ensure the integrity of their work as a component of their publishing process. This training also highlights emerging AI related considerations related to plagiarism and copyright.  

By the end of the training, attendees will be able to:  

This 45-minute online Lunch and Learn training will help attendees develop their own customized strategy for responsibly incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, into their workflows. 

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to: 

• Assess appropriate use cases for generative AI tools within their specific research/work context 

This one-hour online training will instruct participants on chart creation in Excel. 

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to: 

• Review and select chart types, layout, and style 

• Change colors and format options 

• Add titles and labels 

This one-hour online training will provide detailed information on how to create and manipulate pivot tables in Excel.  Pivot table is an interactive way to quickly summarize large amounts of data.   

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:  

This one-hour and thirty minute online training is part one of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in a refresher. The series provides detailed information on managing and sharing data from the first data planning stage, through the data life cycle, to data archiving, and finally to selecting an appropriate repository for data preservation.   

This hour and half online training is part two of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in a refresher. The series provides detailed information on managing and sharing data from the first data planning stage, through the data life cycle, to data archiving, and finally to selecting an appropriate repository for data preservation.  

This one-hour online training introduces applying data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to signals and time-series datasets using MATLAB. The training will cover the entire AI pipeline, from signal exploration to deployment.

This one-hour online training in the NIH Library Evidence Synthesis Review series provides an overview of writing and publishing or registering your review protocol. This training will cover what a review protocol is, how to develop one, and how to use it for the conduct of your review.  

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to: 

• Explain the importance of writing a protocol for your review 

This one-hour online training in the NIH Library Evidence Synthesis Review Series introduces techniques and frameworks to help build an answerable review question suitable for differing types of evidence synthesis reviews.  This training presents well known frameworks such as PICO for systematic reviews, and PCC for scoping reviews and introduces some lesser-known frameworks that may be helpful. The training also touches on the requirements and process for the evidence synthesis literature review.  

This 75-minute online training will provide information about Cochrane Library, a collection of databases with high-quality systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and clinical answers. The training will cover the key features of the search platform, the variety of resources and how to search them. 

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:  

This one-hour online training, presented by Technical Information Specialists from the National Agricultural Library’s Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC), provides an introduction of how to conduct a literature search for animal use alternatives using bibliographic databases.

This one-hour online training, provided by a presenter from SAS, introduces the basics of accessing SAS 9.4 tools and setting up your environment.  

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:   

• Load data using SAS Studio or Enterprise Guide