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e-Library for Busy Resident Doctors

e-Library for Busy Resident Doctors

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.

Access to e-resources from anywhere:

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)

Searches for e-Journal articles, book chapters and more

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 Oncology

Catalogue Search for Urology

Catalogue Search for Paediatrics

 

e-Journals

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

Cardiology

Intensive Care

Emergency Medicine

Oncology

Urology

Paediatrics

 

e-Books

 

Davies, J. H. and McDougall, M. (2018) Children in intensive care: a survival guide. 3rd edn. Elsevier. 

 

Donald, A., Stein, M. and Scott Hill, C. (2011) The hands-on guide for junior doctors. 4th edn. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.  

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.

Williams, B.C., Malani, P.N. and Wesorick, D.H. (2013) Hospitalists’ guide to the care of older patients. 1st ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 

Xiu, P. and Aveyard, N. (2025) Kumar & Clark’s cases in clinical medicine. 5th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

 

Oxford Handbook/Textbook titles (118 results)

e-Book search on Junior and Trainee doctors (15 titles)

 

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools

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 Procedure Videos

Clinical Key by Clinical Overview

Clinical Key and NICE guidelines

Clinical Key CME/CPD

 

Guidelines and Medicines Information

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 

Palliative Care

Martindale’s Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Checker

MedicinesComplete User Guide

 

More Guidelines

More Medicines Information

 

e-Learning

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.