Can you be on Facebook and not be worried about its impact on your professionalism? Watch this video: Facebook and the professional behaviours of undergraduate medical students Winner of The Clinical Teacher’s inaugural IMPACT award, Jayne Garner and Helen O’Sullivan’s 2010 paper provides insight to the role that social networking sites play in the lives […]

As part of the University’s project to prepare for RCUK’s new Open Access policy (www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk), we’re conducting interviews and workshops to find out more about the research and publishing habits of our postgraduates and academics so that any new system will fit your workflows and be highly usable. We’re currently looking for researchers in the […]

The backbone to many clinical students reading list is available as an e-book, and the new edition (8th) has just been made available. To get access either click here to go straigh to the e-book or use the page you’ll find if you search for the book on Library Search Remember – you’ll need RAVEN […]

Watch and learn! The Cochrane Library have put together 2 new online tutorials for you get understand more about the Cochrane Library, and the systematic review and meta-analyses that it produces, and also to get better at seraching for the evidence you need. You need to register for access, but it’s free and painless. Full […]

Are you a postgrad researcher? Need to get to grips with that systematic review? or to decide which reference management tool to use? Happy to search pubmed, but unsure of Embase?   Then you need to come along to one of the training sessions specifically designed for you!   Managing Your Bibliography PubMed and EndNoteWeb […]

We’ll try to keep the library open for business regardless of the weather, but unfortunately se we have had to close the library suddenly in previous years. We’ll do our best to keep you informed – unless you hear otherwise we’re open for business as usual:  Monday – Friday 8:00am – 9:50pm Saturday 9:00am – […]

… then you’ll need to fill it up with the best medical apps around. Here’s just a selection Try the Cochrane Library app – available for iPad The Cochrane Library iPad Edition presents the latest up-to-date evidence from The Cochrane Library in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. Monthly issues feature Cochrane Systematic Reviews selected by the […]

The National Institute for Health Research have produced a toolkit containing “practical advice to researchers in designing and conducting publicly funded clinical trials in the UK.  Through the use of an interactive routemap, this site provides information on best practice and outlines the current legal and practical requirements for conducting clinical trials.” “Based on the […]

Read all about how Cambridge University Hospitals Trust rates in the 2012 Hospital Guide produced by Dr Foster: “Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is our trust of the year for providing care that has great outcomes while also being efficient in its use of resources.” “lower than expected mortality rates at Hospital Standa rdised […]

Why PhD Students Should Blog  There’s lots of reasons why researchers and research students should blog about their work, and read other blogs:  to learn about other people working in similar fields  to gain a habit of reflection to get used to writing about your work to gain a public profile to promote and disseminate […]