Course content:

This course focuses on the principles of Evidence Based Medicine and the process of developing a research question into an effective search strategy.

Duration:

45 minutes

Who should attend:

Members of clinical staff who want to learn more about finding information to support evidence based practice.   

Pre-requisites:

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the course you will be able to:-

• Understand the principles of Evidence based medicine

• Be able to construct a clinical question using the PICO method

• Be able to construct a search strategy

Dates:

1:1 or group sessions arranged on demand.Contact the library to arrange.

Venue:

Library/other locations on request.

Course content:

This course will enable you to search the NHS National Core Content databases effectively and find articles and evidence to help answer your clinical and health management questions.

Duration:

1 1/2 hours (1 hour if attended part 1)

Who should attend:

Members of staff from any discipline who would like support in searching within the NHS National Core Content.

Basic IT skills and familiarity with Internet browsingYou must hold a current NHS Athens account .See our NHS Athens page for more information. 

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the course you will be able to:-

• Differentiate between the databases available to you via the NHS (Medline, Embase, Cinahl, BNI, AMED, PsycInfo, DH-Data, King's Fund database)

• Run an effective literature search independently

• Understand what MeSH and subject headings are and why they are used

• Download full text articles

• Save your search or create an alert

• Print, save and email your results

• Repeat your search in another database and remove duplicates

Dates:

1:1 or group sessions arranged on demand.Contact the library to arrange.

Venue:

Library/other locations on request

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