NHS Evidence – surgery, anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care

www.evidence.nhs.uk

The Specialist Collection is a collection of over 3000 evidence-based resources for all clinicians and healthcare staff supporting the patient through perioperative and critical care.

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Guidelines

Systematic

Reviews

Reports

Educational

video clips

Patient

information

The Specialist Collection contains

BROWSE the collection easily and systematically using our subject tree

SEARCH using keywords

High quality results from a variety of sources grouped into simple, helpful categories

Guest editorials

Annual evidence updates

Mini topic reviews

Original content on current topics

Stay up to date

RSS feeds:new content, latest news stories,forthcoming events.

Monthly email bulletin

Get involved

The specialist collection team

Contact us speclib@rcseng.ac.uk

Become a Topic Advisor

Write original content

on current topics of interest

Share your ideas with us

Help us spread the wordCounts as a CPD

activity

Library resources

Electronic/web resourcessuch as Binley’s, Medical Directory, Ovid Medline, EMBASE

Electronic journals now including BMJ, Medical Teacher, HSJ

plus a range of surgical titles

Fast Track search search simultaneously across resources

Links database

Find useful external websites relevant to all aspects of surgical training, education and practice

Health informatics resources

Links to freely available online resources including database tutorials, critical appraisal toolkits and reference resources

Library resources

Help and training

The ISCP syllabus states that by the end of ST2 trainees should be able to “conduct a literature search and critique clinical papers”

We are here to help!

How do I get an Athens login?

How do I search databases?Where can I find the information I need?

Where do I start?

Help and training

Our Finding the Evidence course helps you to:

FIND a range of resources IDENTIFY appropriate

sources to search for robust information

SEARCH effectively, saving you time and effort

EVALUATE different types of evidence

PRESENT your search in your methodology

Enhance and update your skills with this accredited CPD course

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library@rcseng.ac.uk

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