Life just got a whole lot easier – well if you use Pubmed, that is! You can now search Pubmed and find links to the e-journals which are available via your NHS ATHENS password! Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?myncbishare=eoenhs and search as normal. You’ll notice a new tab, marked “East of England” above your search results – […]

Listen to the Cambridge Entrepreneurs as part of the BBC Radio 4’s Global Business programme. Cong Cong Bo, the chairman of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, and Stage 2 Clinical Student, is interviewed, and presenter Peter Day “hears how academic attitudes to business have changed over the past few decades.“

Later this week (Friday) we’ll be moving over to our new website – http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Although there will be an auto-direct from the old page, please update your favourites/bookmarks. The new site is available now to use – just getting the final touches. Why not take a look: http://cscs20.medschl.cam.ac.uk

Follow hundreds of clinical care pathways via Map of Medicine which is available from NHS Choices. Each step is referenced and the transitions between primary and secondary care are shown. Map of Medicine aims to provide “a visualisation of the ideal, evidence-based patient journey for common and important conditions – a sat nav overview that […]

The GMC‘s report “Tomorrow’s Doctors” is available now: The Times has something to say about it… “Medical students will be ordered out of the lecture theatre and into the wards, gaining more “hands-on” experience treating patients in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries“. The Medical Schools Council makes a statement about it: “a crucially important document for […]

Many thanks to those who contributed to this survey of use of NHS e-journals. The prize draw for this will take place shortly. Winners (from across the region) will be contacted shortly.

The Journal Survey Prize Draw for the 3 Amazon vouchers took place on Friday, and I’m pleased to say that the lucky winners are: Dr Tobias Janowitz Dr Anne Kelly Dr Chris Sonnex Contratulations to them, and thanks again to all those who contributed to our recent journal survey.

Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) have published the next strand in their Future Doctors Review. Educating Tomorrows Doctors is available, as is Patients Role in Healthcare Still to come are Role of the Regulator and Future Shape of the Health Service.There’s still time to comment on the Future Doctors Draft Policy Statement – […]

Thank you very much for your participation – your comments will make help inform a very difficult decision. We’ll be making the prize draw shortly, and will contact the winners direct. Don’t forget – you’ve still got a few days before the NHS e-journals survey (http://tinyurl.com/onlinejournals) closes on 24th August.

Text Mining Hands-on course and Training Seminar – 5th-6th October 2009 The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the National Centre for Text Mining (University of Manchester) are organising a joint training event at the EBI (Hinxton, near Cambridge) The purpose of this event is to teach basic techniques in information retrieval (IR) and information extraction […]