Welcome to the March 2008 edition of the CIAP Newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of CIAP’s newsletter for 2008. This year has already been
busy with the release of the OvidSP interface, the commencement of the Sydney University
research project on the practice of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) and the use of CIAP
by PG Year 1and PG Year 2 graduates. Read more about this later.
This month’s newsletter also includes details of titles generously made available in
2008 with the support of Cancer Institute NSW, an update on Quality & Safety
activities including the Open Disclosure training program, Safety Alerts which are now
available on CIAP and a reminder about journals provided by the Quality & Safety
Branch.
Please continue to provide your feedback and don’t forget you can subscribe as an
individual by sending an
Happy reading from the CIAP Team!
Inside this issue:
New Titles from Cancer Institute NSW
We thank Cancer Institute NSW for their
generous subscription to a number of new journals and books which are available to
all CIAP users. You will find these titles on either the CIAP Full Text Journal
List or the CIAP Online Books lists.
Journal Subscriptions
Books
Cancer Istitute NSW have also produced a promotional flyer listing all their
resources which would be a valuable quick reference for staff involved in the treatment of cancer. We
recommend that it be printed and placed in an area available for regular viewing by staff.
‘In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.’
Cicero
Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) Study for PGY1 and PGY2s
A new study implemented using access to
CIAP to investigate how prevocational doctors in NSW practice Evidence-Based
Medicine (EBM) in their first and second postgraduate years (PGY1 and 2). The
University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine is undertaking a year-long study that
started in January 2008.
Based in Sydney and Dubbo, the project
will explore how interns practice EBM, determine what influences their practice of
EBM and identify future training needs. Project findings will inform a critical
understanding of the important factors that improve or hinder the practice of EBM
by interns in relation to patient care.
Recruitment for PGY1 has closed but if
you are a PGY2 prevocational doctor and are interested in finding out more about
this study please visit the Evidence
Based Medicine Research page on CIAP.
Recruitment for PGY2s will close on the 21st March 2008.
OvidSP – New Functionality
The migration to OvidSP went well and by
now we expect that everyone will be an expert. If not, the
CIAP Education Schedule
has a list of the training sessions available.
RSS feeds
New functionality includes RSS feeds which can be
set up for automatic, regular delivery of content from:
- MEDLINE
- CINAHL
- PsycINFO
- EBM databases
- Ovid Full text journals
RSS alerts are sent on the update of the
database content. You can use RSS feeds to have new search results and newly published
articles delivered to you automatically.
For more information see our web page
RSS
Functionality available on CIAP Resources.
Expanded lexicon
Another feature of OvidSP is its ability
to use a proprietary medical lexicon to expand validated terms. This lexicon is
drawn from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Meta-thesaurus, medical
dictionaries and thesauri, medical acronyms, drug and disease names and standard
American and British English dictionaries.
Validated terms include:
- Word variations
- Strong synonyms (such as alternate names of drugs or diseases)
- Acronyms
- Alternative spellings (such as those that occur between British English
and American English)
‘The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.’
Thomas Berger
Quality & Safety Branch - Open Disclosure Training and Education
Open disclosure is a frank discussion with
a patient and their support person about a patient-related incident that may have
resulted in harm or injury to the patient.
The Open Disclosure Training and Education site provides useful
presentation modules on open disclosure which are ideal for group training and as
part of orientation sessions for new starters. Each presentation comes with a
Facilitator’s Manual.
No time for a group session? The web page
also has a link to the Online Learning Centre where you will find one interactive
module for frontline clinical staff and four for clinical managers that you can do
in your own time. All modules include quizzes and an evaluation form for your feedback.
Quality & Safety Branch – Journals available via CIAP
Please don’t forget that Quality and Safety
Branch also subscribes to a number of excellent journals which are available on CIAP
including:
New CIAP Resources and Changes
OvidSP Tutorials and Userguides
A number of new tutorials and user guides
relating to OvidSP are now available on CIAP’s User Guides and Tutorial page.
Australasian Psychiatry
Full text access to
Australasian Psychiatry the bi-monthly journal of The Royal Australian
and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is now available. Access is from
1/1999 onwards.
2008 Edition of the Australian Medicine Handbook
The 2008 version of the
Australian Medicine Handbook (AMH) is now available. You will find
the link to this book on the left hand side menu under ‘Other Drug Resources’.
The purpose of the AMH is two-fold: firstly,
to provide a readily accessible, concise, up-to-date source of independent drug
information to facilitate effective, rational, safe and economical prescribing and
dispensing; secondly, to provide an educational tool for practitioners and students.
The AMH is totally Australian and its
contents reflect contemporary Australian clinical practice.
‘Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.’
Carl G. Jung
CIAP Training News
Ovid Webex Sessions
A large number of CIAP users have
registered for the OvidSP training sessions that are held via Webex online training.
If you would like to register for any of these sessions please visit the
CIAP Education Schedule.
Cochrane Library Online Training
Wiley are conducting tutorials on how to
use The Cochrane Library. These will be a regular feature on the CIAP Education
Schedule and will be based on different aspects of The Cochrane Library.
The ‘Browsing & Searching The
Cochrane Library’ tutorial will be held on 25th March. Information on future
sessions will be available on the CIAP Education Schedule.
Coming Training for March to be conducted by Victoria Gardner
18th March 2008
Dubbo Base Hospital
GWAHS
11:00 - 12:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contact: Michael Barnes
Tel: 02 6885 8762
19th March 2008
Gunnedah Hospital
HNEAHS
Contact: Helen E Ross
Tel: 02 6741 8092
20th March 2008
Barraba Multi Purpose Centre
HNEAHS
Contact: Jacqueline Rashid
31st March – 4th April 2008
Tweed and Lismore area
8th – 10th April 2008
Albury and Deniliquin
To book a training session at your
locality contact Victoria Gardner – mobile 0411257443
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