School of Medicine Research Resources

Faculty librarians work with School of Medicine researchers to connect them with VCU Libraries resources and services. Librarians serve as part of the research team by utilizing their extensive knowledge and training to identify relevant scientific information, assess research impact, and support the systematic review process. 

School of Medicine Research and Education Librarians
	John Cyrus, MLIS, M.A. Clinical and Medical Education Research cyrusjw@vcu.edu 804-828-1881

We provide consultations, support and training on a wide variety of topics including:

• Building search strategies for systematic reviews 
  • Examples from PubMed
• Assessing research impact by
  • Analyzing department/research group productivity with bibliometrics
  • Identifying and utilizing metrics for promotion & tenure and biosketches
    • View our recent webinar on Optimizing Your Biosketch with Metrics
• Utilizing NCBI databases for genomic analyses
  • Learn about yearly a training series offered in collaboration with the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research
• Identifying literature to support
  • Methodological approaches
  • Gaps in rigor or reproducibility
  • New hypotheses
  • Broader impacts, significance and innovation in grant applications