Welcome

Forthcoming skills sessions

• May

  27
  Getting started with BMJ Best Practice and other clinical decision support tools - Bite Sized (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 11:00
  The best evidence at the point of care together with with your clinical expertise and patient values supports evidence based practice and better patient care. BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool which is robust, reliable, and up to date, made for clinicians by clinicians, meaning you have dependable and sound evidence at your fingertips for your clinical practice everyday. This workshop will focus on getting to know BMJ Best Practice, how to access it through the app for on-the-go evidence, how to access the different forms of information within it, how it can be used for information for patients and patient care, and how it can support your professional development. The workshop will also signpost to other clinical decision support tools available with your OpenAthens credentials including Visual DX. This session will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams. Once you have booked through KnowledgeShare you will be sent a link to the Teams meeting by email.
  
• May

  28
  Finding journal articles using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub - Bite Sized (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 11:00
  The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is your gateway to a wide array of online resources including all nationally-funded resources and selected open access and repository collections. This bite-sized session will introduce you to the Hub's key features and functionalities, helping you find and access full-text research papers to support your work, research, or studies in healthcare.
  
• Jun

  02
  Finding journal articles using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub - Bite Sized (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is your gateway to a wide array of online resources including all nationally-funded resources and selected open access and repository collections. This bite-sized session will introduce you to the Hub's key features and functionalities, helping you find and access full-text research papers to support your work, research, or studies in healthcare.
  
• Jun

  04
  How to read a research article: An Introduction to critical appraisal (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  Critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine can seem daunting, but with practice and confidence anyone can pick up the necessary skills to improve their engagement with, and understanding of, the literature. Working on these skills allows us to better approach clinical evidence and research, reading journal articles with a critical eye and an idea of if and how we might transform evidence into practice. This session is aimed at those with no prior experience of critical appraisal but would be a good refresher for anyone who wants more practice. This session will focus on providing an overview of the critical appraisal process as applied to both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Additional sessions will follow over the coming weeks where participants will have the opportunity to appraise articles as part of a group with a facilitator, offering valuable practical experience. It is recommended that participants book and attend other sessions depending on the kind of research they are interested in.
  
• Jun

  05
  Searching Ovid Medline: Techniques for optimising search results (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  Finding the strongest evidence requires searching beyond Google and PubMed and using medical databases such as Medline and Embase. This session introduces participants to the principles of database searching and introduces some advanced techniques, focusing specifically on Medline via Ovid. This session will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams. Once you have booked through KnowledgeShare you will be sent a link to the Teams meeting by email.
  
• Jun

  09
  Using Zotero to manage references accurately (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 11:00
  Whether you’re writing academic assignments, doing research or keeping up with the evidence managing your references well can save you time. Reference management software allows you to organise your reading materials and cite what you’ve read easily and accurately. In this session we cover the reasons you may wish to use reference management applications, provide examples of these, and demonstrate the main functions on freely available software (Zotero). This session will be held online using Microsoft Teams and you will receive a meeting invitation after booking. This session will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams. Once you have booked through KnowledgeShare you will be sent a link to the Teams meeting by email.
  
• Jun

  10
  How to read a research article: critical appraisal of a randomised controlled trial (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  Critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine can seem daunting, but with practice and confidence anyone can pick up the necessary skills to improve their engagement with, and understanding of, the literature. Working on these skills allows us to better approach clinical evidence and research, reading journal articles with a critical eye and an idea of if and how we might transform evidence into practice. This session is aimed at those with no prior experience of critical appraisal but would be a good refresher for anyone who wants more practice. This session will focus on the practical aspect of critically appraising a randomised controlled trial and offers the chance for experiencing critical appraisal and discussion in a group environment online. This session is intended for those who have attended 'How to read a research article: an introduction to critical appraisal', which introduces the concept, theory and tools required for critical appraisal, so it is highly recommended that participants also book a place on that session.
  
• Jun

  11
  Introduction to undertaking an evidence review: literature reviews (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  This introductory session will be helpful to staff undertaking an evidence review for a dissertation, QI project or other work based project. The workshop will focus on planning an evidence review, constructing the methodology section of the review, and some options for presenting your results. It will show a step by step pathway for undertaking this kind of review, some top tips to keep on track with your review, and resources to support your skills in this area. If you are undertaking more comprehensive review such as a scoping or systematic review, please book instead on our other skills workshop 'Introduction to undertaking scoping and systematic reviews'. If you do not feel confident with database searching, or critically appraising papers please consider completing our Database Searching and Critical Appraisal workshops before attending this session.
  
• Jun

  12
  Searching Ovid Medline: Techniques for optimising search results (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 11:00
  Finding the strongest evidence requires searching beyond Google and PubMed and using medical databases such as Medline and Embase. This session introduces participants to the principles of database searching and introduces some advanced techniques, focusing specifically on Medline via Ovid. This session will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams. Once you have booked through KnowledgeShare you will be sent a link to the Teams meeting by email.
  
• Jun

  12
  Creating great poster presentations - Bite Sized (Online)
  Microsoft Teams - 12:00
  A good academic poster at a conference enables you to both network and communicate clearly the work that you've been doing. This bite-sized session will help you in designing and producing a great conference poster to make you and your work a talking point.