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Health Professions Education for Doctoral Students: Reviewing the Literature

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• Reviewing the Literature
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What is a Literature Review?

“A review of the literature consists of reading, analyzing, and writing a synthesis of scholarly materials about a specific topic. When the review is of scientific literature, the focus is on the hypotheses, the scientific methods, the strengths and weaknesses of the study, the results, and the authors’ interpretations and conclusions. A review of the scientific literature is fundamental to understanding the accumulated knowledge about the topic being reviewed."

Garrard, J. (2017). Health sciences literature review made easy: The matrix method . Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. p. 4.

Search Strategies

For a review of the literature, you want to conduct a comprehensive search to identify as many sources as possible on your topic. Be sure to take notes on your search process, otherwise it's easy to lose track of what you've already tried.

Database Searching

Search health sciences and other disciplinary databases (i.e. CINAHL, MEDLINE, ERIC) for keywords related to your topic.  (See the  Articles on Your Topic  page of this guide for tips and resources).

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Structure of a Literature Review

When you're writing a literature review, you won't just summarize all of the articles that you've found on your topic. Instead, you'll synthesize the evidence. This means that you'll look at the state of the evidence as a whole, telling your reader what it means when you put it all together. Rather than reviewing your sources one at a time, you'll organize your lit review by concept, chronology, methodology, etc. -- whatever makes the most sense for your topic.

The Matrix Method

What is the Matrix Method?

The Matrix Method is an organizational system that guides you through the literature review process from start to finish, outlined in the book Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy by Judith Garrard (see citation below). It is “intended to teach you how to read a paper, organize the review using the Matrix Method, analyze it, and create a narrative synthesis” (p. 31).

• Matrix Method Handout This handout provides a general introduction to the Matrix Method. Please refer to Garrard’s book for further instructions on using the Matrix Method.

How can I access Garrard’s book?

Garrard, J. (2017).  Health sciences literature review made easy: The matrix method . Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

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Diane Tomasic, Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy: The Matrix Method, 3rd Edition, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy , Volume 68, Issue 23, 1 December 2011, Page 2302, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/68.23.2302a

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This book describes a process to help students understand scientific literature, using the Matrix Method to critically evaluate articles. Each chapter concludes with an example of the experiences of a graduate using the process. Visual examples and case studies are included. Previous editions were published in 2007 and 1999.

The purpose is to describe the Matrix Method for reviewing scientific literature and the Matrix Indexing System to create and maintain a reprint file. This edition has been updated to focus on converting from a hard copy method to an electronic method. This is a worthy goal and learning how to accomplish it electronically is a useful skill.

The target audience includes graduate students or health science professionals learning how to conduct literature review.

The purpose and scope of this book has not changed with the third edition, but it has been revised based on the changing publishing landscape. For example, the method of converting from a hard copy to an electronic basis is new, there is new terminology for describing literature review, and innovations in the National Library of Medicine infrastructure that have implications for literature reviews for health sciences are described. The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers the fundamentals of literature reviews, part II discusses the Matrix Method consisting of paper trail, document folders, how to abstract the research literature, and how to synthesize the literature. The final part explains the application of the Matrix Method. Resources for literature reviews and how to structure computer folders for the Matrix Method appear in the appendixes.

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From the Publisher: This resource will help students better understand scientific literature by instilling the essential skills (via the "matrix method") needed to critically evaluate article findings. The fundamental principles of searching, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing are covered at the most basic level. It will help students to: &#183; Conduct an efficient and thorough search of the literature using electronic databases Learn specific methods for organizing journal articles and other source documents for quick and easy access Discover how to choose specific topics to systematically abstract the research articles Create and use their own abstracts of the research articles to write a synthesis of the literature. Visual examples and a single case study are woven throughout the text. It is constructed in an easy-to-read and highly practical format.

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