Our resource of the month for March was a collection of tools, tips and training available to support you when critically appraising medical research articles.

First up, we recommended the CASP checklists, which are a series of questions that can help you structure your evaluation of an article’s reliability, trustworthiness and applicability.

We use CASP checklists in our critical appraisal training sessions, and you can access them all for free here: https://t.co/TuGQR9Qa5F

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) March 4, 2019

Next, we recommended Trisha Greenhalgh’s essential book, How to Read a Paper, which is available at the Medical Library. Click here to locate it via iDiscover.

Our #resourceofthemonth for March is a collection of tools to help you critically appraise research articles. Today we're recommending Trisha Greenhalgh's excellent book 'How to Read a Paper'. It's available to borrow at the Medical Library: https://t.co/t7nIO6aRpJ

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) March 11, 2019

Following that, we talked about several other critical appraisal checklists: SIGN, CEBM, and Joanna Briggs Institute.

We also linked to a new (to us) checklist for critically appraising grey literature. You can find it here.

These are the SIGN checklists from @online_his: https://t.co/AknWUq52uc

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) March 18, 2019

And finally we have the checklists from @JBIEBHC: https://t.co/pSKHlg7S9l

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) March 18, 2019

Of course, we saved our favourite critical appraisal resource until last: the Medical Library’s own training sessions. These run roughly once a month, and involve participants reading an article in advance, and discussing it together during the class. We are also happy to deliver critical appraisal training to you and your team, using a paper selected by you that is of relevance to your subject area. You can arrange this by emailing librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Alternatively, if you want to arrange a session where we work with you and a selected group of colleagues appraising an article you choose, get in touch to discuss dates and times.

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) March 25, 2019

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