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Getting started with BMJ Best Practice and other clinical decision support tools - Bite Sized (Online)

10/03/26
Imperial College NHS and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Trusts Libraries
Microsoft Teams
11:15am - 12:00pm
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.
By the end of the session participants will be able to: Understand how to access BMJ Best Practice and upload the app Find information on BMJ Best Practice Consider how to use evidence with patients Know how BMJ Best Practice can support continuing professional development Know where to find other clinical decision support tools This session supports standards from the GMC Professional Capabilities Framework; NMC Code; GPhC Professional Standards; HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, PSA Standards for Members, SfH Code of Conduct, GDC Standards and GOC Standards of Practice
GMC – Domain 3, 8 ,9; NMC – Sections 6.1, 6.2, 9.4; GPhC – Standard 4; HCPC 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; PSA – Standard 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SfH – 3.6, 4.3, 6.3, 6.4; GDC – 1.4.1, 2.3.2, 6.1.1, 6.4.1, 7.1.1, 7.2.1, 7.2.2; GOC – 5.3, 7.4, 7.6, 12.4.3 ACHCA - Expectation 1, 2, 3, 4; CIPD - 1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3
This skills session has no organisation restrictions
This skills session has no job role restrictions