‘Printing the body: early illustrated medical books from the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes’ Cambridge University Library, Entrance Hall cases, 14 June–13 July 2013 The first display in the two new exhibition cases in the Entrance Hall presents treasures from Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s early illustrated books on anatomy – from Vesalius’ groundbreaking De humani corporis […]

It’s that time of year again – exam preparation is engulfing the Clinical Students. We wish all our students the very best of luck with the forthcoming exams, and hope that opening the library on Sundays for the next 5 weeks will help. May 2013 Sunday 19th Sunday 26th June 2013 Sunday 2nd Sunday 9th  […]

‘Anti-fat’ bias among doctors and Probiotics in antibiotic-associated diarrhoea – just 2 of the topics covered in this months expert commentary on important new evidence, as supplied by those nice people at NICE. All available online. Other topics this month are:  Premature death after self-harm A cohort study reports that rates of death from both natural and external […]

  Following the generous donation to the University from Hildegard Modlmayr-Heimath and Hans-Jörg Modlmayr , the Medical Library is proud to have two sculptures by George Kennethson on display.  ‘Life’ and ‘Mother and Child’ make the library a more beautiful place to study in.  

Don’t sit in a traffic jam – sit in the library instead!  The Library will be open from 9:00am till 6:00pm on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May 2013  

Calling all students, postgraduates and university staff – want to win a £25 Amazon voucher? To be in with a chance to win an Amazon voucher, just take this quick survey about study and research habits in the University of Cambridge Not only will you be entered into a draw to win a voucher to […]

Test your knowledge of a wide range of medical conditions at Patient.co.uk. The education articles are written for health professionals and include MCQs and OSCEs which clinical students might find useful. http://www.patient.co.uk/education

Mendeley has been bought by Elsevier (read all about it from Meneley’s perspective here and from Elsevier’s perspective here)  If you have one of the free accounts the first thing you might notice is an increase in your storgage from 1GB to 2GB – great news, but there may be other changes to come in the […]

Regulations coming into force on April 6 will enable six major libraries to collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the nation’s cultural and intellectual output that appears in digital form – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain. And the Medical Library is one of the libraries […]

Need an evidence base for the 300 most common and/or significant conditions presented in primary care? Then the new, improved Clinical Knowledge Service is for you! www.cks.nhs.uk Accessible only in the UK, CKS service will upgrade the existing CKS service and will be openly accessible to users in the UK. The evidence base that supports […]