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Page Updated: 11-jan-10

Library training

All library training is free.  Class sizes are limited.

To Book Call (9496) 5636 or email the Library
Where: Austin Hospital:  Training room, L. 4, Harold Stokes Building
Repatriation Hospital:  Training Room,  3rd Floor, Outpatients
Royal Talbot Hospital:  Driving Assessment Room, L. 1
When: Training schedule
Training offered: Cinahl
Evidence-based Practice
EndNote
Medline
Can't make it? Let us know
Links to online tutorials

Cinahl (1 hour)
Suitable for: Nurses and allied health staff  with basic computer skills who need to use the literature to support their clinical practice and/or studies
Objectives:
  • How to access Cinahl
  • Complete a basic Cinahl search
  • View and select results
  • Print or email results
  Includes practice exercises and training notes

Evidence-based practice (EBP) (1 hour)
Suitable for: Clinicians with basic computer skills who are interested in EBP and searching secondary databases
Objectives:
  • Effectively search Cochrane Library
  • Awareness of further Best Practice resources and developments
  Includes practice exercises and training notes

EndNote (1 hour)
Suitable for: Clinicians who want to learn the basics of this reference manager software
Objectives:
  • Create a new library
  • Input references
  • Search for references / copy references
  • Change reference styles
  • Cite while you write
  • Import citations directly from Ovid Medline into EndNote
  Includes training notes

Medline (1 hour)
Suitable for: Clinicians with basic computer skills but limited or no Medline searching skills
Objectives:
  • Access Medline database
  • Complete basic Medline search
  • Combine searches and limit results
  • View and select results
  • Print or email results
  Includes practice exercises and training notes

Can't Make it? If you cannot attend a course you have booked please notify us at least 3 working days in advance so that we can reallocate your place to another person.
In the event that a session has to be cancelled, we will notify you 2 days before the course schedule date.  We will attempt to offer an alternative date for a course which has been cancelled.
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