Medical Library

4 New E-journal Titles are accessible

2012-01-30T13:41:00.008Z

The library has subscribed to :-

Circulation:arrhythmia and electrophysiology - link
Circulation:Cardiovascular quality and outcomes - link

Both are available from university computers or remotely by using RAVEN, (for university readers).

Regional anesthesia and pain medicine - uni link or nhs link
Current opinion in critical care - uni link or nhs link

Both are available from university computers or remotely using either RAVEN (for university readers,) or NHS Athens, (for NHS readers).See ejournals@cambridge for more information and access.

Podcasts from PodMedics

2012-01-27T16:31:00.001Z

With a glowing review from iMedicalApps, ("Podmedics brings superb medical education podcasts to junior doctors and med students") it might be worth exploring PodMedics: http://podmedics.com/

Created by UK foundation doctor Ed Wallitt (@PodmedicsEd)
these podcasts cover an excellent range of specialties available ranging from Cardiology to Rheumatology, with extra sections dedicated to Surgery, Clinical Specialties and Clinical Sciences.

There's space for you to make your own notes, and as well as audio there's visuals to keep you interested too.

The downside: £30 per year for full access (7 day free trial)

Podmedics 4 Teaser from Edward Wallitt on Vimeo.

Podcasts from Cochrane Library

2012-01-27T16:16:00.000Z

Want to keep up to date with new Cochrane Systematic reviews, but no time?
Then try podcasts:
The latest issue (January 2012) has podcasts on such diverse topics as

Disposable surgical face masks for preventing surgical wound infection in clean surgery
Exercise interventions for smoking cessation
Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not using insulin

Previous editions of Cochrane are also available as podcasts so why not listen yourself happy?

New new e-books: includes Kumar & Clark, Robbins & Cotran

2012-01-24T09:05:00.001Z

books@cambridge are pleased to announce that trial access is now available to eight important medical e-textbooks on the Elsevier E-Textbooks platform.

Titles include those such as Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology (7th edition), Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine, and Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Medical students, particularly those on placement, may find these e-textbooks of considerable interest.

Access to the trial is available both on- and off-campus from the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ebookstrial and from the link on the ebooks@cambridge collections web page. From off-campus users will need to use their Raven password.

The Bookshelf feature displays those titles available to read and search in full-text, and users can print from those texts. Users can also register individually on the platform to create a saved space in which notes, bookmarks and highlights can be added.

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Trial access is available from

Monday 23rd January 2012

to 15 March 2012.

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We would welcome your comments, please send your feedback to the ebooks@cambridge team at the UL, either by reply or to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Further details are available from the e-books blogpost .

NHS Right Care

2012-01-17T12:05:00.004Z

The NHS Right Care programme (http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk) is focussed on increasing value – value for patients and value for commissioners. The programme is targeted at clinicians, commissioners and patients and has five workstreams:

Population Planning and Programme Budgeting
Clinical Networks and Systems of Care
Better Value Clinical Practice
Shared Decision Making
Population Medicine

The right care team is led by Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS, DH; Philip DaSilva, National QIPP Lead, Primary & Community Services and Dr Steve Laitner, Lead for Shared Decision Making.

As well as hosting the NHS Atlas of Variation series (the 2011 edition is now available), there is stacks of information around shared decision making, including slidesets, videos and reading lists

Internet-Informed Patient Symposium - Dr Steven Laitner from School of Clinical Medicine on Vimeo

New e-book - Harrison's online

2011-12-15T18:15:00.019Z

The library has subscribed to Harrison's online for a year, which covers the complete contents of "Harrison's principles and practice of medicine" 18th ed.

It allows printing and mobile downloading in a format optimised for handheld devices such as smartphones. Also incorporated are more than 90 videos, 1000 self assessment questions and answers, plus expert presentations.

See http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com

It is accessible using the library computers, or remotely using a university RAVEN username and password.

Other major e-books to which the library subscribes include:-

Oxford textbook of medicine

http://otm.oxfordmedicine.com/contents.dtl

Oxford textbook of palliative care http://otpallm.oxfordmedicine.com/

Library closed over Christmas

2011-12-07T16:58:00.001Z

The Medical Library will be closed over the Christmas period, from 12.30pm Friday 23rd December.

We reopen in the New Year: 8am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

We wish Library Users a very merry Christmas,

with all best wishes for the New Year.

2011 BMA Book Award

2011-12-06T13:34:00.003Z

Congratulations to Dr Peter Baxter, Consultant Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for winning a BMA book award: medicine category. He is an editor of "Hunter's diseases of occupations" 10th edition.

This is held in the Library as a reference book at WA 400.62

Deduplication of Journals

2011-11-14T18:20:00.005Z

Work continues with the deduplication of journal titles which are found in other Cambridge University libraries. One set will continue to be housed in one of the University libraries.

The list of the journals involved is:

Title	Start	vol		End	vol	Retained copy
MIMS magazine	1974		to	1987		UL
Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the (Emergency) Public Health Laboratory Service	1951	10	to	1967	26	UL
Nursing Mirror	1980	151	to	1985	161	UL
Science	1946	103	to	1999	286	CSL

Please email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk if you wish to comment on this.

Kings Fund - The point of care: accepting death & illness

2011-11-07T16:46:00.001Z

The Kings Fund seeks to understand how the health system in England can be improved.
One of it's current projects is The Point of Care Programme which aims to help health care staff in hospitals deliver the quality of care they would want for themselves and their own families.

This section includes staff stories, and 2 have come recently from a 2nd year medical student who considers Accepting death and illness as a doctor and as a patient and Patients: just a tool for medical learning?

Changes to Library closing time

2011-09-27T15:03:00.003Z

Owing tochanges in the Clinical School building closingprocedures, Medical Library patrons please note the following:

Lastentry to the Clinical School building andMedical Library:

9.35pmMonday to Friday

4.35pmSaturday

Medical Libraryservices will cease:

9.45pmMonday to Friday
4.45pm Saturday

Medical Librarywill close:

9.50pmMonday to Friday

4.50pmSaturday

Effective from Monday3^rd October 2011

We apologise for any inconvenience these changes may cause.

Welcome to New Clinical Students

2011-09-12T09:11:00.000Z

Welcome to the new cohort of Clinical Students 2011.

We hope you'll have a wonderful 3 years,

and offer you any support we can from the Medical Library.

Prodigy - the new face of Clinical Knowlege Summaries (CKS)

2011-09-09T16:53:00.001Z

Do you remember Clinical Knowledge Summaries - a great source of high quality summaries of evidence and "practical know how" about common conditions in primary care.

CKS is now rebranded as PRODIGY, and is back, better than ever. Search for a specific topic, or browse the clinical topics. High quality patient information is also available.

http://www.prodigy.clarity.co.uk

PRODIGY is an accredited provider for NHS Evidence, and its content is also retrievable when you search TRIP.

A leaflet about Prodigy is available too.

Reading Lists

2011-09-09T16:39:00.001Z

What are students at University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine expected to be reading?
Check out the reading lists now.

Library redevelopment - work in week beginning 5th September

2011-08-26T16:43:00.000Z

Activities in the library this week include:

Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th

Re-carpeting of the area between the Reception area and the Books.

This will be noisy and disruptive work, and we apologise for the inevitable inconvenience.

Thursday and Friday

No work scheduled. Calm!

Bank Holiday Monday - Library is open

2011-08-26T11:38:00.000Z

Monday 29th September, 2011 is a Bank Holiday.

The library is open from 9.00am till 6.00pm.

Library redevelopment - work in week beginning 22nd Aug

2011-08-23T14:29:00.000Z

Activities in the library this week include:

Monday 22nd

Disposal of old metal shelving and furniture into a skip
This will be noisy work, and we apologise for the inevitable disruption.

Tuesday

Calm!

Wednesday, Thursday

Disposal of old metal shelving and furniture into a skip.
This will be noisy work, and we apologise for the inevitable disruption.

Friday

No work scheduled - calm!

Click here for a reminder of the "grand plan"

Changes in the Medical Library – August 2011 onwards

2011-08-16T15:38:00.000Z

We are always striving to improve the services and environment in the Medical Library.
In 2009 we underwent a significant refurbishment in the library reception area, upper floor and staff offices.

From August till the end of 2011, with financial support from the Clinical School, we shall be extending this modernisation to some other parts of the library.

What changes are planned?
What improvements do we hope this will achieve?

Change 1
*    shelving of all but the current issue of all journals upstairs (level 4)
Improvement
*    simplification of our journal holdings, making them easier to find
Achieved: 5th August 2011

Change 2
*    relocating current issue of journals to new shelving units near the book collection
Improvement
*    better use of space so that more is available for study spaces
In progress: 16th August 2011
Journals relocated, but yet to be reshelved: temporarily arranged in boxes near the books.
Hope to be complete: late September 2011 (or when new shelves arrive!)

Change 3
*    installation of water fountain
Improvement
*    better quality water and refreshment for library users
Achieved: 12th August 2011

Change 4
*    installation new carpeting in from reception area through towards the books
Improvement
*    better aesthetics and improved noise muffling
To be completed by mid-September 2011

Change 5
*    installation of group study pods
Improvement
*    enables small group work and promotes quiet discussion in the library
To be completed by end of 2011

We are aware that any changes of this nature will cause disruption in the library while they’re being implemented. We’ll keep you posted via notices in the library and the website.

We're sorry about this, but hope you'll bear with us, and find that the changes we're making are worth-while.

Deduplication and Cancellation of Journals

2011-08-16T15:01:00.000Z

We continue to deduplicate print journals and move towards electronic journal access.
One copy of the print will continue to be held in one of the University libraries, but not in the Medical Library.
A list of these titles which we propose to remove from the Medical Library can be seen here.
Please contact us if you have any views on this proposed action.
Email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone 01223 336750

CLOSING EARLY!

2011-07-14T10:03:00.007Z

The Library will be closing
Tuesday 19th to Friday 22nd July, 2011 at 19:45

This is due to staff sickness

Many apologies for the inconvenience.

Local Health Profiles - availabel via PHO

2011-07-01T10:59:00.000Z

Who is the local population? How deprived are they? How much more healthy are they this year in comparison with last year?

Health Profiles is the Department of Health’s programme to improve availability and accessibility to heath and health-related information in England. They give a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England. Health Profiles are produced annually by the Public Health Observatories in England working in partnership and are commissioned by the Department of Health.

Data is available for Cambridge and also Cambridgeshire, as well as all the other regions and counties of England.

SIGN guidelines app

2011-06-22T10:47:00.002Z

Do you have a smart phone?
Do you use SIGN guidelines?

Then the SIGN Guidelines app is for you

SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) guideline recommendations are now available on the move with theSIGN Guidelines app for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets

(apparently it's the third most popular free medical app - according to the BBC)

http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/apps/index.html

The SIGN Guidelines app has recently been updated and now includes the 2011 edition of SIGN 101 The British Guideline on the Management of Asthma featuring a new section on asthma in adolescents.

Also included is SIGN 124 Management of adult testicular germ cell tumours and SIGN 125 Management of atopic eczema in primary care/

Developed by the SIGN Executive in collaboration with Root Creative, Glasgow, the app contains Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) of these recently published SIGN guidelines:

Management of atopic eczema in primary care
Management of adult testicular germ cell tumours
Early rheumatoid arthritis
Venous thromboembolism
Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in adults
Chronic venous leg ulcers
Stroke: identification and management of dysphagia
Stroke: rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning
Management of sore throat and indications for tonsillectomy
Management of diabetes
Management of obesity
Non-pharmaceutical management of depression
Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease
British guideline on the management of asthma

New CASP website

2011-06-15T10:28:00.001Z

http://www.casp-uk.net/

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

Delighted to see that the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme has got it's own website again - nice tidy URL to remember!

CASP deliver great workshops on critical appraisal, and have created the invaluable checklists to help you when reading journal articles:

The ethos of CASP is

Find the best available evidence to answer our question, in amongst the vast quantity of published research.
Appraise the evidence we find, to determine whether its findings are reliable.
Act on the findings in the light of our specific needs, values and preferences.

This new site is particularly helpful for those taking part in the Twitter Journal Club (as mentioned previously)

Review of NHS White Paper - results of NHS Future Forum

2011-06-13T13:49:00.006Z

The report from the NHS Future Forum is now available:
Summary report on proposed changes to the NHS
http://tinyurl.com/nhsff

Details for the NHS Future Forum are available: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/DH_127536

DoH Press Release
Government response to the proposed reformsThis document summaries the key changes the Government intends to make in response to the NHS Future Forum. The changes are largely structured around the four workstream themes considered by the NHS Future Forum. Some, but not all, of these changes require amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill.

Original NHS White Paper: Equality and Excellence: Liberating the NHS

King's Fund response:

Responding to the publication of the NHS Future Forum report, The King’s Fund’s Chief Executive, Chris Ham, said:

‘We strongly welcome the Future Forum’s report. The recommendations it sets out – if accepted by the government – will significantly improve the Health and Social Care Bill.

Watch the launch of the report which happened at 2.30pm 13th June 2011, at the King's Fund.

Twitter Journal Club - great way to practice reading research papers

2011-06-09T09:34:00.001Z

Are you interested in Critical Appraisal?
Are you on Twitter?
Then a new journal club has started up just for you. Twitter Journal Club is a great initiative was started by Natalie Silvey (@silv24), a junior doctor in the West Midlands, and Fi Douglas (@fidouglas), a medical student at Cambridge.Twitter Journal Club has already attracted over 500 followers, and generated a 2 hour discussion at it's first meeting.

"Twitter Journal Club provides a place where doctors, medical students, and anyone else who is interested, can discuss publications relevant to clinical medicine. In many respects it operates in same way as any other journal club, except that the forum is Twitter.

We try to pick papers that are particularly significant and will be relevant to a wide range of people.

You can use the #TwitJC tag to suggest papers at any time.

Anyone is welcome, including (and, indeed, particularly) students, with one aim being to provide an opportunity for medical students to learn by discussing papers with practicing doctors."

There was a great discussion on 5th June - the inaugural "meeting" - the full transcript is available to read here.
Next discussion is taking place on Sunday, 12th June, 8pm UK Time.

Paper for discussion: Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1981 Jun 6;282(6279):1847-51.Strategy of prevention: lessons from cardiovascular disease.Rose G. http://t.co/I6BslCk

Blog is available at http://twitjc.wordpress.com/

Twitter hashtag is #TwitJC

Follow the club on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/twitjournalclub

If you use iGoogle, we've got a widget for you!

2011-05-18T09:46:00.000Z

The Cambridge University Library Widget is a unified interface for Cambridge library users, drawing together search facilities, your library profile, loans and requests in one easy-to-manage application. Whether you access it in CamTools, Facebook and iGoogle, or embed it in your own web page, it allows you to run your library life wherever you spend time online.
Watch the video to see how easy it is to use and install in seconds using the instructions below!

Full instructions to add this widget to Google Calendars, Yahoo, Facebook or your own webpages are available

Web of Knowledge now available to NHS ATHENS users

2011-05-12T14:30:00.000Z

In the same pilot scheme that gave Addenbrooke's NHS ATHENS holders access to additional e-journals from Nature and Elsevier's Science Direct we've got more good news.

Web of Knowledge is now accessible to anyone logging in with an NHS ATHENS password from one of the trusts of the Cambridge University Health Partners.

Access is made available as a a result of the national agreement between the libraries of the five Academic Health Science Centre universities, JISC Collections, the UK academic community e-procurement and negotiation service, and some of the leading publishers of e-content.

Benefits of access to Web of Knowledge:

multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities
access to citation indexes (each article lists the references it uses, and which articles have used it as a reference since it was published)
Journal Citation Reports - find out the Impact Factor of journals
Find out the h-index of authors
Search the Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science edition (1990– ) indexes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia workshops and conventions in a wide range of disciplines in science and technology.

A quick guide to getting started in Web of Knowledge is available, but please feel free to ask for help to get the best from this great resource.
Contact the library by email (library@medschl.cam.ac.uk) or by phone (01223 336750)- we're happy to help.

New Look for NHS Evidence

2011-05-10T08:59:00.000Z

NHS Evidence (www.evidence.nhs.uk) has had a revamp.

Access to full-text e-journals and the ability to search databases including Medline, CINAHL and PsycInfo is still available (just click "journals and databases" link).

You can still search across a limited, but high quality set of resource using the search box - you'll get access to resources from accredited sources such as NICE, SIGN and Royal Colleges. (it beats having to struggle through '00,000s of hits via some well known search engines!)

But now you can browse the A-Z topics and get a focused view including an introduction to the top, quick access to Guidance, Information for the Public, Ongoing Research and Medicines using the expanding sections.

Also new are the NICE Pathways
"NICE pathways represents a network of NICE information.
For example, the diet pathway links up with the physical activity pathway; the COPD pathway links up with the smoking pathway. Over time, all of NICE's guidance, quality standards and related tools will be added to this network of information. For the first time you do not need to understand how NICE classifies different types of guidance to view everything NICE has said on a particular topic."
(if you ever used Map of Medicine, you'll like this!)

As ever, help and support in getting the best from NHS Evidence and any other sources of health information to get the answer to your questions is available from the Medical Library - just give us a call (01223 336750) or drop an email (library@medschl.cam.ac.uk), and tell us how we can help.

Sunday opening - Exam preparation

2011-04-29T15:36:00.001Z

It's that time of year again - exam fever is in the air.

In addition to our regular opening times, the Medical Library will be open from 2.00pm till 6.00pm on Sundays from 8th May till 12th June inclusive.

Hope this helps in some way with the exam preparations, and very best of luck!

UK Stillbirth rate - Cambridge research contributes to evidence base

2011-04-14T09:18:00.002Z

Research published online by the Lancet gives evidence of stillbirth rates in the UK being higher than in almost every other high-income country.
The UK had about 4,100 stillbirths in 2009 and, with a rate of 3.5 per 1,000 births, was ranked 33rd in a list of 193 countries - down from 26th in 1995.

Only France and Austria ranked lower among high-income nations.

Article:Major risk factors for stillbirth in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis Vicki Flenady MMedSc, Laura Koopmans BPsycha, Philippa Middleton MPHb,Frederik Frøen MD, Prof Gordon C Smith MD, Kristen Gibbons BMaths, Michael Coory MD, Adrienne Gordon MD, Prof David Ellwood MD, Prof Harold David McIntyre MD, Ruth Fretts MD and Prof Majid Ezzati PhD

(doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62233-7 )

and plenty other papers published online by the Lancet

You can use either NHS ATHENS or RAVEN to access the full text of this paper.

Hear more from Prof Gordon Smith head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cambridge University, when he spoke to the BBC's Today programme

Read more from the BBC , or the Guardian.

Deduplication and Cancellation of Journals

2011-04-12T07:04:00.009Z

Deduplication

Cancellations

Due to continued financial pressures we propose to cancel the following titles. The print copies of these have always been held at the University Library and cancellation is therefore unlikely to affect you. Where online access has also been available, there have been less than 100 downloads in the past year. A list of these titles can be seen here. http://tinyurl.com/medicallibrarycancellations

If you would like to discuss any of the listed titles with us, then please email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk before 28th April 2011.

Easter Weekend & Bank Holidays

2011-04-11T08:41:00.000Z

The Medical Library will be closed over the Easter weekend: Friday 22nd till Monday 25th inclusive. Normal hours resume at 8am on Tuesday 26th April.

Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May, the Medical Library will be open 9am till 6pm.
Saturday 30th April, the Library will be open, as usual, 9am till 5pm

More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff

2011-03-03T18:09:00.011Z

More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff

E-journal access for Cambridge University Health Partners*

Pilot scheme launched!

The scheme allows the University of Cambridge to extend to its partner NHS organisations in CUHP access to the content it already obtains on subscription from the participating publishers. A pilot scheme has been launched, ending December 2011, and will be reviewed to decide what happens after 2011.

The resources available for Cambridge University Health Partners include all the Nature Publishing Group journals, a package of 2,000 titles from Springer, and (soon) Elsevier's "Science Direct" package of 2,500 journals and a set of databases from Thomson Reuters including Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Some of this content is already available to NHS staff via other subscriptions.

The increased access is part of a national agreement* between the libraries of the five Academic Health Science Centre* universities, JISC Collections, the UK academic community e-procurement and negotiation service, and some of the leading publishers of e-content. The Centres found that uneven access to content was a barrier to high-quality collaborative research, clinical care and education for NHS and academic staff at AHSCs.

*CUHP - http://www.cuhp.org.uk/

*National agreement - http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/New-pilot-project-looks-to-develop-licensing-models-for-Academic-Health-Science-Centres/

*Academic Health Science Centre - http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/12F26C3313D994838025757400470B87?OpenDocument