Resource of the Month - Clinicalskills.net

The library resource we are promoting this month is Clinicalskills.net

The Trust Library service has set up a FREE trial to Clinicalskills.net. Clinicalskills.net is a fully illustrated clinical procedures guide, with more than 200 clinical skills procedures shown in pictures, step by step.

Access the trial here or by going to www.clinicalskills.net and logging in with your OpenAthens account.

Please tell us what you think of Clinicalskills.net. The trial runs until 20th March.

FREE Trial to Clinicalskills.net

The Trust Library service has set up a FREE trial to Clinicalskills.net.  Clinicalskills.net is a fully illustrated clinical procedures guide, with more than 200 clinical skills procedures shown in pictures, step by step.

Access the trial here or by going to www.clinicalskills.net and logging in with your OpenAthens account.

Please tell us what you think of Clinicalskills.net.  The trial runs until 20th March.

Watch this space for more information on the trial and how to use the online assessments to test your knowledge on different clinical procedures.

1st Regional Medical Humanities SEMINAR at Maidstone Hospital- 26.3.15

'Are you interested in people not just diseases? Do you experience stressful situations that affect how you feel? Medical humanities is about putting the human back into the care work we do everyday. 

The Kent Medical Humanities Network is a Kent wide organisation made up of NHS staff who would like to increase and broaden the understanding of medical humanities to all working in healthcare in Kent. 

This is your opportunity to be part of the first regional day with seminars devoted to a variety of topics looking into the heart of our work. The event is to be held on Thursday the 26th of March at Maidstone Hospital. Please see the enclosed flyer and book today to avoid disappointment.

Kent Medical Humanities Network:

1^st Regional Medical Humanities SEMINAR

Thursday 26^th March 2015

Auditorium Maidstone Academic Centre

9:30 – 9:45                             Registration

9:45 – 10:00                          Introduction

10:00 – 11:00                        Day in the life of a Hospital chaplain:

Rev Father Valentine Erhahon

11:00 – 11:15                        Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15                        Suicide and Shakespeare:

Dr. Rosarii Harte, Consultant Psychiatrist

12:15 – 13:00                        LUNCH

13:00 – 14:00                        Schwartz Rounds:  Russ Hargreaves

14:00 – 15:00                        Medicine and Opera:

Dr David Yates, Consultant Anaesthetist

15:00 – 16:00                        Well Being and Resilience:  Bov Jani

16:00 – 16:15                        Coffee

16:15 – 17:00                        Audiovisual Closing remarks

                                    CPD points applied for from Royal College of Physicians

Please make £15/- cheques payable to Maidstone Academic Centre and send completed application forms and cheque to:

Anita Mann, Centre Manager

Academic Centre

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

Kent, ME 16 9QQ.

Please apply before 13/3/15.

For further information/ queries please contact:  Tirthankar (Raja) Datta:  : tirthankar.datta@nhs.net

Endocrinology- Display for February

Each month the Trust Libraries create a display and resource bulletin on a clinical topic.  For February, it is Endocrinology.  The display is on show at both sites and the resource bulletin (which lists ALL our e-journals and e-books on Endocrinology) can be accessed here

All the other Library resource bulletins can be accessed on our website

Did you know that you can access the journal Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics for FREE via our catalogue with an OpenAthens Account? Search for this and other e-journals at www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk . If you don't have an OpenAthens Account, register for one at www.evidence.nhs.uk 

www.clinicalkey.com

You can also access many e-books on the topic including Endocrine Secrets and Williams Textbook of Endocrinology.  Access these via our catalogue (www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk) or direct via Clinical Key (www.clinicalkey.com).  Clinical Key is a large database of books and journals which contains many titles on Endocrinology.

www.clinicalkey.com