The Medical Library will be open, with reduced hours, on all three forthcoming holidays: Bank Holiday Monday: 7th May Bank Holiday Monday: 4th June Diamond Jubliee Holiday: Tuesday 5th June The library will be open 9.00am till 6.00pm.

The BNF is a fundamental tool for healthcare staff.You can access it using your NHS ATHENS login login to MyATHENS, click “resources”, and “local resources”, and scroll down to “Medicines Complete” or www.medicinescomplete.com and sign in with NHS ATHENS login

The Medical Library will be shut Friday 6th April – Monday 9th April inclusive. Library services will resume at 8.00am, Tuesday 10th April 2012.

“Jim Al-Khalili talks to the pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers, who was one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration. Once described by one writer as ‘The Maverick Master of Medical Evidence’. Iain Chalmers trained as a doctor, eventually specialising in obstetrics. But early in his career, he started to question the basis of […]

Books returned or renewed late have a fine levied at 25p per book per day. No one likes having to pay a library fine for returning books late, but at least we can make it easy for you. Now we accept payment by debit or credit card, as well as cash.  Pay Fines Online Please […]

Clinical trials are the gold standard method of testing the effectiveness of an intervention. When done well (ie randomised, crossed over, blinded, with sufficient power, and appropriate outcome measures) they can provide a very solid basis for evidence based practice. But what’s it like to be a patient in a trial?– not knowing whether you’re […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]