Group Training

The Medical Library runs a series of group sessions throughout the year. While most sessions are open to both University members and NHS staff, some courses are more suitable for a particular audience.

Our research skills group training is taught either in person in our library training room, or online using Teams. Please ensure you check whether a session is online or in person before you book your place.

How to book group training

University of Cambridge staff and students: click on the link to the session you wish to attend, and log in with your university account

NHS staff should email the training team (librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk) to book their places.

We offer courses for both groups on:

• Research Data Management
• Writing a Systematic Review Protocol
• Systematic Reviews (this class requires you to have received previous literature searching training, such as Introduction to Literature Searching or NHS Evidence Searching)
• Creating a Conference Poster
• Writing for Publication
• Managing your References with Zotero
• Searching for Grey Literature

We offer courses specifically for University of Cambridge staff and students on:

• Introduction to Literature Searching 
• Introduction to Covidence
• Managing your References with EndNote

We offer courses specifically for NHS staff on:

• NHS Evidence Searching
• Critical Appraisal for NHS Staff
• Health Literacy Awareness

We are happy to deliver any of these courses to you and your colleagues at a time and location of your convenience. If you would like to invite us to deliver training to your team, please email us at librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Individual Training

Information Clinic is a one-to-one session where you and a librarian work together to find the answer to your question. These sessions are entirely tailored to your needs, and are arranged at a time and date to suit you — it may even be possible for the librarian to come to you, rather than you coming to the library.

If you would like an introduction to the library – a session where you learn about library services, rather than help searching databases to find the answer to a research question, you can also book on to an information clinic, but make sure you specify that this is what you want.

Contact Veronica Phillips (Liaison Librarian, School of Clinical Medicine) or Isla Kuhn (Medical Librarian) to discuss how we can help, and to arrange an Information Clinic appointment.

Phone: (01223) 336750, email librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk , or fill in this form