Fancy some UpToDate training?

 

All Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust staff now have access to UpToDate courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Healthcare Library. "What is UpToDate?" I hear you say. UpToDate is an electronic evidence-based clinical decision making support tool, written by expert clinicians for clinicians. It is designed to help answer clinical questions quickly, increase clinical knowledge and improve patient care... sounds pretty good right? You can access UpToDate from the intranet home page or remotely with an NHS Athens account.

We want the staff in this trust to be make the best possible use of this excellent resource so we have set up a drop-in training session on Friday 2nd May for anyone to attend. The session will be held in the library training room and staff are free to drop-in at any time between 12 and 3pm. If you have absolutely no experience using UpToDate but want to see what it's about or if you've used it in the past but want to learn a bit more, come along and we'll show what it can do for you.

There's no need to book just pop in and bring your lunch, we've also got a hot drinks machine in the library if you fancy a coffee.


Our lovely little training room

If you want any more information on this session or on UpToDate in general please do contact us, always happy to help. Likewise if you're unable to make this date but would like some training. We'd be more than happy to arrange training for individuals or groups, either here in the library or in your department.

As a special treat here's some impressive numbers of what UpToDate contains:

380,000 - References

27,000 - Graphics (including Graphs, Charts, Flow Charts, Photos and Videos)

10,000 - Clinical Topics

5,100 - Drug Monographs

5,100 - Authors and Editors

1,500 - Patient Information Leaflets

135 - Medical Calculators

21 - Specialities (more on the way!)

Right that's it for the sales pitch, look forward to seeing you there on 2nd May.

Until next time...