February is LGBT+ History Month. This year’s theme is Medicine #UnderTheScope. Each of our libraries has a display this month of books and/or book covers relating to health and medical […]
LGBT+ History Month: Sophia Jex – Blake: a pioneer for medical reform
LGBT+ History Month: Sophia Jex-Blake one of the first women to graduate in the UK.
LGBT+ History Month – Ewan Forbes
The life of Sir Ewan Forbes (1912 – 1991) spans a radical shift in the trans experience and his legal battle reverberates through current debate on trans rights and male primogeniture succession.
Getting to grips with PRISMA
My role involves advising students and staff on literature searching, particularly searches carried out as part of a literature review. One aspect which people are asking about more frequently is […]
PICO and SPIDER and SPICE, oh my!
As a health librarian, one of the things which final year and postgraduate students ask me about most often is PICO. But what on earth is PICO? Not, sadly, a […]
Exploring physiotherapy with your digital library
Physiotherapy has been taught at the Medway campus since September 2018. This term seemed like a good chance to check in with what’s available on this subject through our digital […]
New support for systematic reviews: Cochrane Interactive Learning
Are you tackling a systematic review but not sure where to start? Struggling to define your review question or come up with a clear search strategy? The Library now subscribes […]
What’s new in the library for health students?
There have been some fantastic new resources purchased for health students over the past academic year and we’d like to share them with you. Read on to find out more..
Open access and health
For this third day of open access-related blog posts, we are looking at how open access can be of benefit to healthcare around the world. “…it is only through removing […]