With a glowing review from iMedicalApps, (“Podmedics brings superb medical education podcasts to junior doctors and med students”) it might be worth exploring PodMedics: http://podmedics.com/ Created by UK foundation doctor Ed Wallitt (@PodmedicsEd) these podcasts cover an excellent range of specialties available ranging from Cardiology to Rheumatology, with extra sections dedicated to Surgery, Clinical Specialties […]

Want to keep up to date with new Cochrane Systematic reviews, but no time?Then try podcasts:The latest issue (January 2012) has podcasts on such diverse topics as Disposable surgical face masks for preventing surgical wound infection in clean surgery Exercise interventions for smoking cessation Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus […]

books@cambridge are pleased to announce that trial access is now available to eight important medical e-textbooks on the Elsevier E-Textbooks platform. Titles include those such as Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology (7th edition), Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine, and Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Medical students, particularly those on placement, may find these e-textbooks […]

The NHS Right Care programme (http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk) is focussed on increasing value – value for patients and value for commissioners. The programme is targeted at clinicians, commissioners and patients and has five workstreams:    Population Planning and Programme Budgeting     Clinical Networks and Systems of Care     Better Value Clinical Practice     Shared Decision Making     […]

The NHS Right Care programme is focussed on increasing value – value for patients and value for commissioners. The programme is targeted at clinicians, commissioners and patients and has five workstreams:     Population Planning and Programme Budgeting    Clinical Networks and Systems of Care    Better Value Clinical Practice    Shared Decision Making    Population Medicine The right care […]

The library has subscribed to Harrison’s online for a year, which covers the complete contents of “Harrison’s principles and practice of medicine” 18th ed. It allows printing and mobile downloading in a format optimised for handheld devices such as smartphones. Also incorporated are more than 90 videos, 1000 self assessment questions and answers, plus expert […]

The Medical Library will be closed over the Christmas period, from 12.30pm Friday 23rd December. We reopen in the New Year: 8am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. We wish Library Users a very merry Christmas, with all best wishes for the New Year.

Congratulations to Dr Peter Baxter, Consultant Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for winning a BMA book award: medicine category. He is an editor of “Hunter’s diseases of occupations” 10th edition. This is held in the Library as a reference book at WA 400.62

Work continues with the deduplication of journal titles which are found in other Cambridge University libraries. One set will continue to be housed in one of the University libraries. A list of these journals can be seen here  Title Start vol End vol Retained copy MIMS magazine 1974 to 1987 UL Monthly Bulletin of the […]

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Work continues with the deduplication of journal titles which are found in other Cambridge University libraries. One set will continue to be housed in one of the University libraries. The list of the journals involved is: Title Start vol End vol Retained copy MIMS magazine 1974 to 1987 UL Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of […]