Your NHS Wales e-Library is here to support equitable access to national resources wherever your placements take you.
This month we want to shine a spotlight on our new and continuing Resident Doctors and share some of our fantastic resources available to support your evidence-based practice.
This special edition of e-Library for Busy People will cover topics relating to some placement areas for F1 Doctors in NHS Wales.
Rember to visit your NHS Wales Library and Knowledge Services who can help you find information on more topics. They are your experts-in-residence for knowledge, information and library services.
All of the listed e-resources are available from wherever you are connecting to the internet.
Here’s how:
Use your NHS Wales email address and network password to sign in via OpenAthens. When you access a resource from our website or LibrarySearch (library catalogue), you will be prompted to sign in and you only need to do this once during your current browser session.
From here, you can start creating personal profiles for the resources that matter most to you. This will include setting alerts for changes to clinical decision tool topics, saving searches and articles and even tracking CME/CPD. Need to see this in action? Check out Signing Into Resources (video 2:26 on YouTube)
The below links search LibrarySearch for journal articles, books and more on the given topic. You can save these searches and set up alerts by creating a personal account in LibrarySearch. Please see our video on finding journals by topics, and how to set up alerts in the titles you care about.(video 9.03 on YouTube)
Catalogue search for Cardiology
Catalogue search for Intensive Care
Catalogue Search for Emergency Medicine
Catalogue Search for Paediatrics
British Journal (all e-Journals with ‘British Journal’ in the title)
International Journals (all e-Journals with ‘European’, ‘International’ or ‘American’ in the title)
Must read e-Journals:
BMJ (34 titles available)
Lancet (21 titles available)
New England Journal of Medicine and other NEJM titles (25 titles available)
LibrarySearch e-Journals by topics
Dover, A. R., Innes, J.A. and Fairhurst, K. (eds) (2024) Macleod’s clinical examination. 15th edn. London: Elsevier. Page, P. et al. (eds) (2021) Emergencies in clinical medicine. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oxford Handbook/Textbook titles (118 results)
e-Book search on Junior and Trainee doctors (15 titles)
Download the BMJ Best Practice App for offline access to evidence-based information at the point of care.
BMJ Best Practice: Comorbidities Manager
Access BMJ Best Practice with Comorbidities Manager feature by selecting an acute topic. The “Treatment algorithm” allows you to select as many common comorbidities as listed, guiding you to see when a treatment option is impacted by the comorbidities you selected.
Watch a short video on BMJ Comorbidities Manager (3:08)
BMJ Best Practice Procedural Videos
BMJ Best Practice by Speciality
CME and CPD in BMJ Best Practice
Download the Clinical Key App to access all the below on the go
Clinical Key by Clinical Overview
Clinical Key and NICE guidelines
NEWT Guidelines is a resource on providing or administering medicines to patients with swallowing difficulties, including problem solving for tube blockage and enteral feed interactions
MedicinesComplete (Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference or Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc)
MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to:
Drug Administration
Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes
Martindale’s Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Checker
BMJ Learning Clinical Skills
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Foundation Doctors
BMJ Learning Medical Trainees
BMJ Learning Portfolio is free to use, can be used with BMJ Learning courses and other external information as well and can be a useful took to support appraisal processes.
More on Accreditation and CPD with BMJ Learning
The NHS Wales e-Library will be accessible to you no matter where you are in Wales. If resources are not working as expected, please report this by contacting elibrary@wales.nhs.uk or speak with your NHS Wales Library and Knowledge Service. We would love to hear from you.