We’re getting the “new” library ready for you, so thought we’d give a sneak preview of what it will look like. There are some familiar bits of furniture, but not necessarily placed where we had them in June 2016. We’re creating 3 new spaces – “Share“, “Shhh…“, “Read“. We’re getting a whole load of new […]

The Medical Library has recently purchased 3 board games on the topics of “The Drug Round” – designed to help clinical staff improve understanding of medication errors and how to avoid them “The Communication Game” – designed to help all front-line service providers understand communication support needs and how to improve their communication skills “Infection […]

During March, we looked at range of tools to help you with your systematic review. In the first week we looked at resources to provide a framework for the write-up of your review. These would also help at the early stages of the systematic review with what information would be essential to record. PRISMA, with […]

post from Cambridge Big Data: Big Data in Medicine: Tools, Transformation and Translation. Date and Time: 4 July 2017 Location: Homerton College, Cambridge. Scientists in a wide range of disciplines are continuously striving to develop tools and technologies to capture, manage, and process medical, medically-related and health-related Big Data; methods for transforming these data into […]

Following on from last month’s theme of looking at a range of different tools rather than a specific resource, this month we focused on tools to help with writing for publication. In the first week we looked at resources to help with the actual writing. How do you overcome the fear of the blank page? […]