Group and one-to-one training
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We have the following training available:
Communicate Your Impact with Abstracts and Posters
Learn how to showcase your work with confidence through clear, compelling abstracts and visually engaging posters. This practical session covers key writing techniques, common pitfalls to avoid, and poster design tips to help you communicate your project’s impact and stand out at conferences, symposiums, and professional events.
Critical Analysis and Academic Writing Skills
Develop the skills to read, think and write more critically with confidence, This session will help you evaluate information effectively, build strong evidnece-based arguments and improve you academic writing. You'll learn how to assess sources and stregthen critical anaylsis - giving you the tools to produce high quality academic work.
Get started with OpenAthens and Library Resources
Discover how to make the most of Knowledge & Library Services in this informal lunch-and-learn session. Learn how to use our journals, books and other evidence resources, plus explore the support available for literature searches and professional development. Bring your questions and follow along as we showcase the key tools and services available to you.
Health Literacy:communicate better with patients (60 mins)
Find out how local rates of health literacy affect clinical outcomes and how you can help your patients better understand the health information you give them.
Introduction to AI and Copilot
Explore the fundamentals of AI and discover how Microsoft Copilot Chat can support you with everyday admin tasks. This interactive session covers AI concepts, responsible use, effective prompting techniques, and hands-on Copilot activities to help you work more efficiently.
Library Induction (15 mins)
Gain an overview of the facilities and services Knowledge and Library Services provides and an introduction to the resources most useful to you.
Literature Searching Skills (60 mins)
Learn or refresh your memory on how to build a search strategy and perform an advanced search in the Medline database.
Using Critical Appraisal Tools (60 mins)
Learn or refresh your memory on how to use a checklist to perform a critical appraisal of a journal article.
Writing for Publication
Looking to get published? From finding the right journal to disseminating your work, discover tools and develop confidence to publish successfully.
We are happy to provide bespoke training and we can provide training at your place of work or online if that is more convenient - please contact us on library@tgh.nhs.uk if you have further requirements.
Online literature searching and critical appraisal training
e-Learning for Healthcare offers the following free training.
- Where Do I Start Searching?
- How Do I Start to Develop a Search Strategy?
- Too many results? How to narrow your search.
- Too few results? How to broaden your search.
- Searching with subject headings
- Searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and bibliographic databases
Critically appraising the evidence base:
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal
- Introduction to Health Inequalities
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Randomised Controlled Trials
- Introduction to Interpreting Results for Critical Appraisal
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Systematic Reviews
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Studies
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Diagnostic Studies
- Introduction to Critical Appraisal Tools