This session serves as an introduction to the wide array of resources and services provided by Knowledge and Library Services, designed to support you throughout your career at Barts Health NHS Trust.
This session is offered both in-person and online via MS Teams.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff.
No requirements.
By the end of this session, you will know how to:
15 minutes
This session will help you have access e-journal articles to support your evidence-based practice at your fingertips. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare professional or just starting your journey, this course is designed to support your informed decision-making and ability to provide high-quality patient care. Join us to enhance your search skills by exploring online clinical decision support tools and evidence-based resources, including UpToDate, BMJ Best practice, DynaMed, and Trip Pro database. We will also cover e-book platforms such as Bookboon, Kortex etc.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff who need guidance on accessing evidence-based resources like point-of-care tools, reviews, guideline and summaries and e-books.
Participants are required
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1 hour
This course is an introduction to the Knowledge and Library Hub to quickly find, access and share reliable high-quality information. The Hub is designed for quick searches. It offers a simple interface and basic filtering options.
This session is available both in-person and online via MS Teams. It can be conducted as a demonstration or an interactive session. For the interactive format, you may find the face-to-face option more beneficial.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff who want to efficiently use the Hub to access nationally and locally funded subscription resources.
If you require more advanced skills for systematic reviews or comprehensive literature searches, consider our Intermediate course instead.
Participants are required
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1 hour interactive session or 20 minutes demo.
This course is designed to familiarise participants with the major databases, including Medline, Embase, CINAHL, and PsychInfo. It aims to equip you with the essential skills needed to effectively search for evidence to support your research project, focusing specifically on utilising keywords to devise a robust search strategy.
This session is available both in-person and online via MS Teams. It can be conducted as a demonstration or an interactive session. For the interactive format, you may find the face-to-face option more beneficial.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff, including those interested in conducting evidence searches for a wide range of projects, including but not limited to patients’ cases, audits, services change, guideline and policy development, systematic reviews, and other research initiatives.
If you are new to searching or just want a quick search with basic filtering options, you might want to attend How to search the Knowledge and Library Hub first.
Participants are required
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1 hour 30 min interactive session or 1 hour demo.
This course is designed to expand attendees’ database research skills. It covers thesaurus searching which is another technique to search databases. Combining both keywords and thesaurus techniques is recommended to ensure a comprehensive search strategy.
This session is available both in-person and online via MS Teams. It can be conducted as a demonstration or an interactive session. For the interactive format, you may find the face-to-face option more beneficial.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff who have attended the Database searching (Intermediate) course or meet its learning objectives, and want to expand their research skills, especially those embarking on a systematic review which requires a comprehensive search strategy.
Participants are required:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1 hour 30 min interactive session or 1 hour demo.
To provide participants with an understanding of the impact poor health literacy can have on our patients, how to start addressing these issues and the challenges of engaging with patients with poor health literacy skills.
This session is offered both in-person and online via MS Teams.
All Barts Health NHS Trust staff who provide health information to patients and carers or has a responsibility around planning and shaping population health services or reducing health inequalities.
Participants are require to be a member of the library. Please register with the library here.
By the end of this session, you will:
be aware of the impact of limited health literacy on individuals' health and well-being
recognise a variety of tools and resources that can be utilised to support individuals with limited health literacy and to promote health literacy in practical settings
1 hour
An abridged 20 minute version is also available, and is suitable as a brief introduction to the topic at team meetings.