summer reading - e-books weigh less in your suitcase!

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (5th edition) is now available as an e-book to all library users.
"The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties, it is a fixture in the offices and wards of physicians around the world."
Use your

• University RAVEN login or
• your NHS ATHENS login or
• the computers and wifi in the library with no password (or any university networked computer),

 to access access this core text  - http://otm.oxfordmedicine.com/

The addition of the OTM compliments
the existing wide range of e-books available:

Using NHS ATHENS, log in here and browse the titles available to you.
Titles include

• Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning
• Dementia Nursing: A Guide to Practice
• Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
• Oxford Handbook of Nurse Prescribing
• Oxford Handbook of General Practice
• Trauma: Emergency Resuscitation, Perioperative Anesthesia, Surgical Management

(remember, if you're a Clinical Student you can register for NHS ATHENS too)

Using the University computers and wifi in the Medical Library or RAVEN login if you're "off campus" then any books you find on Newton the library catalogue that have [electronic resource] after their title are just that - e-books.
Titles include:

• Child Public Health - Waterston, Dr Tony; Blair, Dr Mitch; Crowther, Dr Rachel; Stewart-Brown, Professor Sarah.January 2010.
• Public Health - Walley, John; Wright, John. January 2010.
• ABC of Eyes - Khaw, P. T.; Shah, P.; Elkington, A. R. 4Th Ed. 2004.
• ABC of Diabetes - Watkins, Peter J. 2003.
• ABC of Clinical Genetics - Kingston, Helen M. 2002.
• Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials - Elwood, Mark. January 2007.
• Risk Communication and Public Health - Bennett, Peter; Fischbacher-Smith, Denis; Curtis, Sarah; Calman, Kenneth. January 2010.
• The Limits of Consent - Richards, Martin; McMillan, John; Weijer, Charles; Liddell, Kathleen; Corrigan, Oonagh. January 2009.

Inside the Ethics Committee - podcast

 BBC Radio 4's Inside the Ethics Committee is back since last Tuesday - you can listen again or download to your MP3 player the last series and the more recent programmes.

Today's programme looked at "When should a seriously ill child have a say in their treatment?" and last weeks at "Should a man who believes his life-saving surgery is a conspiracy to kill him be forced?"

The programmes are produced in conjunction with the Open University and more information about the programme is available including a conversation with convenor of the Addenbrooke's Hospital clincal ethics forum, Rebekah Ley.

"Equity and Excellence - Liberating the NHS"

With the publication of the White Paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS"  there are several overviews which you might find useful:

• 
  
  The Knowledge & Library Service at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust have created a blog post which brings together both their synopsis and also many comments from other sources, including Kings Fund, NHS Confederations, and many comments from newspapers and other media
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  There is also a media round up available from the busy folk at Newnham - including links to Newsnight extended coverage (12 July 2010) – iPlayer (available until 19 July 2010)
• 
  
  here's a google search on "equity and excellence liberating the NHS" 
• 
  
  here's what people are Twitter-ing about "equity and excellence" and "#healthwhitepaper" and "nhswhitepaper"
• Plus, this from the NHS Evidence Health Management specialist collection which includes opinion and analysis from a wide variety of sources.

CEBM: Resources & YouTube channel

The Oxford based Centre for Evidence Based Medicine have made a wide selection of powerpoints available from their website.
Titles include:

• Introduction to EBM - Paul Glasziou
• RCT Appraisal - Dan Lasserson
• Systematic Reviews - Paul Glasziou

Did you know that CEBM also have a YouTube channel?

 http://www.youtube.com/user/cebmed

This is just one example of the content:
"A Clinical Introduction to a Pre-Clinical Course in Biostatistics" which features Professor David Sackett teaching first-year medical students

New Journals

The following new journals are now stocked in the Medical Library:-

Asian journal of endoscopic surgery

Asia-Pacific psychiatry

International health

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Journal of pharmaceutical health services research

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