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Physical Therapy Resources

This guide is intended as a resource for students in the Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Hunter College.

The Research Toolkit

"What types of sources should I use for my research?  How and in what types of materials should I search to retrieve relevant and useful information?  Why should I bother to cite my sources?"

For help with questions like these and more, the library has created a toolkit of the basic skills you will need in order to successfully complete your research projects:

Research Toolkit from the Hunter College Libraries

 

Library Resources for Physical Therapy

The next few pages will help you locate:

  • books from the catalogs of Hunter and other CUNY libraries
  • journal articles from the library's databases
  • items not available at Hunter or any library within the CUNY system

Evidence-Based Medical Literature

This graphic ranks different types of publications and research activities according to their basis in evidence, with systematic reviews considered the strongest form of evidence-based literature.

Source:  SUNY Downstate/Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, http://library.downstate.edu/EBM2/2100.htm