Welcome to the new cohort of Clinical Students 2011.  We hope you’ll have a wonderful 3 years,  and offer you any support we can from the Medical Library.

Do you remember Clinical Knowledge Summaries – a great source of high quality summaries of evidence and “practical know how” about common conditions in primary care. CKS is now rebranded as PRODIGY, and is back, better than ever. Search for a specific topic, or browse the clinical topics. High quality patient information is also available. […]

What are students at University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine expected to be reading?Check out the reading lists now.

Activities in the library this week include: Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th Re-carpeting of the area between the Reception area and the Books. This will be noisy and disruptive work, and we apologise for the inevitable inconvenience. Thursday and Friday No work scheduled. Calm!

Monday 29th September, 2011 is a Bank Holiday. The library is open from 9.00am till 6.00pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013fj22 “On average it takes 17 years between the time a medical discovery is made and the time that it’s put into wide use. Why does it take so long? Some of the reasons include regulatory requirements, established practices, professional jealousy and a fear of failure. A combination of these factors prevented the introduction of […]

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We are always striving to improve the services and environment in the Medical Library.In 2009 we underwent a significant refurbishment in the library reception area, upper floor and staff offices.  From August till the end of 2011, with financial support from the Clinical School, we shall be extending this modernisation to some other parts of […]

We continue to deduplicate print journals and move towards electronic journal access. One copy of the print will continue to be held in one of the University libraries, but not in the Medical Library.A list of these titles which we propose to remove from the Medical Library can be seen here. Please contact us if you have […]