Essential Training Courses for Keele Students

Keele students studying nursing, midwifery or medicine should take these essential training courses to make sure you have the right skills to find the right evidence for your assignments and dissertation.

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You’ll need to have the right skills and be able to use good quality, health-specialist databases in order to find the right evidence to make good healthcare decisions. Sign-up to our training courses to develop your skills and learn how to use library resources.

1. Health Library Induction Plus – learn what the Health Library can offer you and where you can get quick and easy access to full-text information
2. Literature Searching Ebsco Databases – learn how to develop a search strategy and apply it to our specialist ebsco databases to find full-text articles
3. Evidence-based Databases – find out more about higher-level databases such as the Cochrane Library, so that you can locate systematic reviews
4. Critical Appraisal for Beginners: qualitative research – you’ll need to learn how to critically appraise the articles you find; start by practising on a qualitative research paper
5. Critical Appraisal for Beginners: randomised controlled trial – practice critical appraisal of an RCT research paper
6. RefWorks – make sure you know the importance of referencing and how you can use RefWorks to keep track of all the articles you find

Make the most of the Health Library, sign-up for our training courses - book online, contact the main counter or get in touch with the training team.