Group and one-to-one training
We have the following training available:
Evidence Searching Tools (30 mins)
Can you find high quality evidence quickly and easily when you need it? Find out about useful online evidence resources for your profession and how to use them.
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.
Communicating health information effectively (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.
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.
To book a training course place please login to KnowledgeShare.
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
- How to search the Healthcare Databases (HDAS)
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