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Don’t miss out! Make sure you stay up-to-date using the right tools

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 What is current awareness and what tools can you use to stay up-to-date?

Staying up-to-date with changes in information and research is an important aspect of current healthcare management. 

As you progress through your career you’ll need different levels of current awareness – whether your studying, completing a dissertation or research project, whether your working, moving into a new clinical area or managing a department. You’ll need to make sure that you make the best decisions using the best, most up-to-date information.

Learn more from our etutorials.

What is current awareness?

Learn about the different types of information you may need to stay up-to-date with, at different points in your career.

Current awareness tools

Use the right tool to get the right information easily.

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If you need more help please contact our training team or the eresources librarian.

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