Medical Library

New Evidence updates - outcome in head & neck cancer / familial breast cancer

2012-05-24T13:47:00.001Z

New style Evidence Updates from NHS Evidence help health and social care professionals keep up-to-date with new research, and support them in making evidence-based decisions in a focused and time-efficient manner.

While Evidence Updates do not replace current accredited guidance they do highlight new evidence that might generate a future change in practice.

See the list of latest Evidence Updates

Two new Evidence Updates have been published this month.

‘Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers: Evidence Update May 2012’ focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE cancer services guidance Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers’ (2004).
‘Familial breast cancer: Evidence Update May 2012’ focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 41 ‘The classification and care of women at risk of familial breast cancer in primary, secondary and tertiary care’ (2006).

Engaging patients in research - live discussion

2012-05-22T14:00:00.002Z

"What are patients' perceptions of research, and
how can we improve their involvement?"

Join the live debate on Guardian Healthcare Network Zone:

Noon till 2pm Thursday 24th May 2012

follow the live debate on the Guardian pages or follow @GdnHealthcare

The panel includes Joann Leeding: "communications manager in the research and development team at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her role involves informing the public about biomedical research taking place on the campus, organising patient and public awareness events and recruiting members of the public to ethics panels."

NHS Information Strategy

2012-05-21T11:40:00.000Z

The Department of Health today launched an new NHS Information Strategy - The power of information – which sets a ten-year framework for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care.

The full strategy is available here.

Taking the hassle out of healthcare

View more documents from Department of Health

Comment and Responses come from:

The Kings Fund and Veena Raleigh
The Guardian's Dick Vinegar
The Guardian's Government Computing section
eHealth Insider
BBC
The Telegraph Health section
The Telegraph Political section
Pulse presents a round up of reaction

Goodbye Anne, and happy retirement

2012-05-04T11:03:00.000Z

We're very sorry today to see Anne Collins retire from the Medical Library after 16 years as Deputy Medical Librarian. She's a fantastic colleague, and we'll miss her very much.

Sunday Opening

2012-05-02T15:33:00.001Z

As is traditional at this time of year, the Medical Library has a temporary period of Sunday opening:
So from Sunday May 6th till Sunday June 10th (inclusive), we'll be open 2pm till 6pm.

Best of luck to all students with exams coming up.

Evidence-Based Medicine Podcasts

2012-04-20T14:35:00.001Z

Oxford Itunes U Podcasts on Evidence-Based Medicine

The podcasts include talks from Prof Paul Glasziou and Sir Muir Gray, and cover topics such as "Interpreting Results - Stats in Small Doses", "Appraisal of Clinical Trials" and "Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine"

Access all the podcasts here

New Regius Professor of Physic

2012-04-19T13:29:00.001Z

A new Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen to succeed Professor Sir Patrick Sissons who will retire on 30 September 2012.

Professor Patrick Maxwell is currently Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at University College London.

He is a distinguished physician scientist, who I know is committed to maintaining the Clinical School’s international reputation for the highest quality translational clinical research"
—Sir Patrick Sissons

Bank Holidays

2012-04-19T13:23:00.003Z

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.

BNF now available to NHS staff via "Medicines Complete"

2012-03-14T15:53:00.001Z

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

Easter Holiday

2012-03-09T12:18:00.003Z

The Medical Library will be shut Friday 6th April - Monday 9th April inclusive.

Library services will resume at 8.00am, Tuesday 10th April 2012.

Iain Chalmers - Radio4's Life Scientifc

2012-02-28T16:48:00.000Z

"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 everything he was trained to do and this set him on a very different path: to champion treatments based on the best available evidence, first in his own field and then across healthcare. It's a journey that has at times challenged the foundations of medical practice.
In 1992, he was appointed Director of the Cochrane Centre, which led to the foundation of the Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to ensuring that patients, doctors and researchers have access to unbiased information about the effectiveness of healthcare interventions, across the world."

Listen again - to Radio 4's Life Scientific

Cochrane Collaboration (www.cochrane.org)
James Lind Alliance (www.lindalliance.org)

Online Payment of Fines

2012-02-20T10:03:00.000Z

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 note:

Registration with the Online Store is necessary
Enter the exact amount when prompted, as refunds are not possible
Minimum online payment is £5
Fines will be cleared from your library record by the next working day - you will be notified by email
Secure online payment system is managed by University of Cambridge Online Store

Photo from taxbrackets.org
flickr: Images_of_Money

What's it like to be a patient in a clinical trial?

2012-02-02T15:45:00.000Z

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 taking the drug or the sugar pill?
- what questions should a patient ask a trial co-ordinator before they consent?
- what if you're consenting for your child to take part?

HealthTalkOnline.org (www.healthtalkonline.org/) provides an insight. It "lets you share in other people's experiences of health and illness. This information is based on qualitative research into patient experiences led by experts at the University of Oxford"

Read about or listen to patients experience of biobanking and participating in clinical trials.
What about the patient perspective of share decision making?
Learn about the patient perspective and experience on a range of other conditions.

Follow them on twitter, or learn more about HealthTalkOnline:

4 New E-journal Titles are accessible

2012-01-30T13:41:00.008Z

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 available from university computers or remotely using either RAVEN (for university readers,) or NHS Athens, (for NHS readers).See ejournals@cambridge for more information and access.

Podcasts from PodMedics

2012-01-27T16:31:00.001Z

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 and Clinical Sciences.

There's space for you to make your own notes, and as well as audio there's visuals to keep you interested too.

The downside: £30 per year for full access (7 day free trial)

Podmedics 4 Teaser from Edward Wallitt on Vimeo.

Podcasts from Cochrane Library

2012-01-27T16:16:00.000Z

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 who are not using insulin

Previous editions of Cochrane are also available as podcasts so why not listen yourself happy?

New new e-books: includes Kumar & Clark, Robbins & Cotran

2012-01-24T09:05:00.001Z

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 of considerable interest.

Access to the trial is available both on- and off-campus from the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ebookstrial and from the link on the ebooks@cambridge collections web page. From off-campus users will need to use their Raven password.

The Bookshelf feature displays those titles available to read and search in full-text, and users can print from those texts. Users can also register individually on the platform to create a saved space in which notes, bookmarks and highlights can be added.

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Trial access is available from

Monday 23rd January 2012

to 15 March 2012.

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We would welcome your comments, please send your feedback to the ebooks@cambridge team at the UL, either by reply or to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Further details are available from the e-books blogpost .

NHS Right Care

2012-01-17T12:05:00.004Z

The NHS Right Care programme (http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk) is focussed on increasing value – value for patients and value for commissioners. The programme is targeted at clinicians, commissioners and patients and has five workstreams:

Population Planning and Programme Budgeting
Clinical Networks and Systems of Care
Better Value Clinical Practice
Shared Decision Making
Population Medicine

The right care team is led by Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS, DH; Philip DaSilva, National QIPP Lead, Primary & Community Services and Dr Steve Laitner, Lead for Shared Decision Making.

As well as hosting the NHS Atlas of Variation series (the 2011 edition is now available), there is stacks of information around shared decision making, including slidesets, videos and reading lists

Internet-Informed Patient Symposium - Dr Steven Laitner from School of Clinical Medicine on Vimeo

New e-book - Harrison's online

2011-12-15T18:15:00.019Z

The library has subscribed to Harrison's online for a year, which covers the complete contents of "Harrison's principles and practice of medicine" 18th ed.

It allows printing and mobile downloading in a format optimised for handheld devices such as smartphones. Also incorporated are more than 90 videos, 1000 self assessment questions and answers, plus expert presentations.

See http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com

It is accessible using the library computers, or remotely using a university RAVEN username and password.

Other major e-books to which the library subscribes include:-

Oxford textbook of medicine

http://otm.oxfordmedicine.com/contents.dtl

Oxford textbook of palliative care http://otpallm.oxfordmedicine.com/

Library closed over Christmas

2011-12-07T16:58:00.001Z

The Medical Library will be closed over the Christmas period, from 12.30pm Friday 23rd December.

We reopen in the New Year: 8am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

We wish Library Users a very merry Christmas,

with all best wishes for the New Year.

2011 BMA Book Award

2011-12-06T13:34:00.003Z

Congratulations to Dr Peter Baxter, Consultant Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for winning a BMA book award: medicine category. He is an editor of "Hunter's diseases of occupations" 10th edition.

This is held in the Library as a reference book at WA 400.62

Deduplication of Journals

2011-11-14T18:20:00.005Z

Work continues with the deduplication of journal titles which are found in other Cambridge University libraries. One set will continue to be housed in one of the University libraries.

The list of the journals involved is:

Title	Start	vol		End	vol	Retained copy
MIMS magazine	1974		to	1987		UL
Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the (Emergency) Public Health Laboratory Service	1951	10	to	1967	26	UL
Nursing Mirror	1980	151	to	1985	161	UL
Science	1946	103	to	1999	286	CSL

Please email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk if you wish to comment on this.

Kings Fund - The point of care: accepting death & illness

2011-11-07T16:46:00.001Z

The Kings Fund seeks to understand how the health system in England can be improved.
One of it's current projects is The Point of Care Programme which aims to help health care staff in hospitals deliver the quality of care they would want for themselves and their own families.

This section includes staff stories, and 2 have come recently from a 2nd year medical student who considers Accepting death and illness as a doctor and as a patient and Patients: just a tool for medical learning?

Changes to Library closing time

2011-09-27T15:03:00.003Z

Owing to changes in the Clinical School building closing procedures, Medical Library patrons please note the following:

Last entry to the Clinical School building and Medical Library:

9.35pm Monday to Friday

4.35pm Saturday

Medical Library services will cease:

9.45pm Monday to Friday
4.45pm Saturday

Medical Library will close:

9.50pm Monday to Friday

4.50pm Saturday

Effective from Monday 3^rd October 2011

We apologise for any inconvenience these changes may cause.

Welcome to New Clinical Students

2011-09-12T09:11:00.000Z

Welcome to the new cohort of Clinical Students 2011.

We hope you'll have a wonderful 3 years,

and offer you any support we can from the Medical Library.