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 […]

At this time of year we must review our spending on journals. Unfortunately, owing to the reduction in funding for the next academic year, the increased costs of electronic and print journals plus the £:$ exchange rate, the Medical Library must cancel some of its journals. We have already been surveying usage of the paper […]

Monday 31st August 2009 – the Library will be open from 9.00am till 6.00pm

Here at the Library, we need to find out how people with NHS ATHENS logins use (or don’t use) the online journals we buy. Please help by answering five short questions at http://tinyurl.com/onlinejournals As an added sweetner, there’s a prize draw for a £20 Amazon voucher on 24th August 2009 – 3 chances to win!We’d […]