Online tutorials

Click on the links below to start the free online tutorial on the topic of your choice.

Searching for evidence

•  Effective searching
• Introduction to the Cochrane Library of systematic reviews
• Searching and using MESH in the Cochrane Library of systematic reviews
• Cochrane Library search manual
• Searching PubMed
• Searching ProQuest Health and Medical literature databases
• ProQuest how to find a dissertation
• Medical terminology
• Expand your Public Health Knowledge

 Critical appraisal

•  Critical appraisal

Online tutorials accessible with an NHS Athens username and password

BMJ Learning - is an interactive website designed to support doctors, nurses, medical students and other health care practitioners with their personal development, learning and continuing medical education (CME) needs

Click BMJ Learning and enter your NHS Athens username and password to access the online tutorial on the topic of your choice. 

A brief guide to BMJ Learning is available to help you make the most of this resource. 

There are a number of online modules to assist with continuing professional development:

• Recommended Modules for Medical Students
  
• Recommended Modules for Junior Doctors
• Recommended Modules for Adult Nurses
• Recommended Modules for Community Nurses
• Recommended Modules for Paediatric Nurses
• Recommended Modules for Mental Health Nurses
• Recommended Modules for Psychiatry Nurses

  Searching the internet

• Internet for health and social care
• Internet for medicine
• Internet for microbiology
• Internet for midwifery
• Internet for nursing
• Internet pharmacist

Internet tutorial suite - a set of tutorials on a variety of subjects produced for university students but also useful for NHS staff