Training sessions

 A review of the digital related Breakfast Bites and Lunch and Learns is taking place from the 1 April 2025 to the 31 May 2025.  From the 1 June 2025 a new timetable of sessions including an AI related sessions will be offered.  Please watch for announcements via the Library website and via The Trust’s News bulletin.

 

The January - April 2025 Lunch and Learn schedule  is now available.

Please email Kerry.Seelhoff@nhs.net to book your place. 

Topics covered: 

• Evidence searching tips
• Accessing electronic resources
• Reflective writing tips
• Academic writing tips
• Health Literacy tips
• Critical appraisal tips

 

 

A review of the digital related Lunch and Learns and Breakfast Bites is taking place from the 1 April 2025 to the 31 May 2025.  From the 1 June 2025 a new timetable of sessions including an AI related sessions will be offered.  Please watch for announcements via the Library website and via The Trust’s News bulletin. 

 

 

From the 1 April 2025 to the 31 May 2025 the MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint training will not be taking place. A new timetable will be advertised for sessions from the 1 June 2025 onwards.  To register your interest in attending these sessions please fill in the training request form. 

 

• Learn about the significance of health literacy
• Gain proficiency in employing various straightforward techniques such asTeachBack, chunk and check, utilising visuals, and plain language to enhance communication and ensure comprehension with others
• Following each segment, you'll have the opportunity to draft an action plan detailing how you'll implement these techniques in your work.

The following dates are available:

• 17 June 2025 13:30 - 14:30
• 9 July 2025 13:30 - 14:30

 

Book to attend via this link:  https://shorturl.at/beyV4

•  Learn to search for journal article abstracts/citations using quality healthcare databases, incl. Medline, BNI (British Nursing Index), CINAHL, PsycINFO, or HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium
• Find out how to access over 2,000 full-text journals
• Good for evidence-based practice, research, audit, or guideline writing
• Databases for all disciplines including medical, nursing, psychology and the therapies
• Requires some internet experience
• Duration: 60 minutes for the online sessions and 90 minutes for the face to face sessions.

Dates available:

Face to face: 

• 1st July 10:30-12:00
• 29th July 13:30 -15:00

Online:

• 17th June 10:00-11:00
• 9th July 10:00-11:00

To book to attend training, please use the Eventbrite link.

The most recent training guides are available below;

• Ovid Training Guide 2024
• ProQuest Training Guide 2024
• Ebsco Training Guide 2024
• PubMed Training Guide 2024

Other database searching

Electronic healthcare resources ‘grand tour’

• Take a 'grand tour' of the diverse online resources provided nationally and locally by your health library;

• Gain an overview of which resource specialises in which type of question and subject area;

• Good for confident internet users who want to know what is out there for them;

• Duration: 60 minutes.

A new training guide will be available soon.

Pick up some tips and develop your critical appraisal skills at our critical appraisal sessions.

These can be delivered one-to-one or as a group, such as supporting a session at your journal club.

We can either help you appraise a particular paper or highlight some useful resources, such as the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.

Email Kerry Seelhoff (Clinical Librarian) at: esth.libraryepsom@nhs.net to find out more.

We now provide digital literacy training via the  NHS Digital Learning Solutions platform.

All staff at Epsom and St Helier can register for an account and use the training modules available.

 

 

 

These include:

- Microsoft Office Word

- Excel

- PowerPoint

We are relaunching the Digital Learning Solutions virtual and face-to-face, mediated training in June 2025. If you would like training on Excel or Powerpoint, please complete the Expressions of Interest form  and we will contact you with the new timetable in early June 2025.

 

 

Searching the Cochrane Library

• Learn how use the Cochrane Library, a collection of evidence-based databases

• Search for systematic reviews and current clinical trials

• Good for clinical effectiveness research

• Not ideal for information searching novices;

• Duration: 60 minutes.

Download the Cochrane Training Guide 

Six Ws

• An introduction to healthcare resources available to NHS Staff electronically via the internet, including how and when to access resources

• Have an understanding of what resources to use to access different types of information

• Know who each resource is aimed at, e.g. patient information

• Duration: 40 minutes.

A new training guide will be available soon.

Think you can Google?

• Learn to find quality healthcare information on the internet effectively

• Overview of the search engine Google: tips on how to search Google effectively using the advanced search option, Google Scholar and Google Books search

• Good for literature and information searching novices

• Duration: 40 minutes.

Download the Think you can Google Guide