Medicine: SSC 2 (For Year 4 clinical students only)

PrerequisitesNew

Your SSC will require that you find scientific literature in order to read around a topic, even if you're are not doing a systematic review as the eventual outcome. It is a great opportunity to gain Key Skills which will be valuable for the SSC, your Year 5 Paeds CAT, and the rest of your professional life.

This session will be a refresher in how to search medical/healthcare databases effectively and efficiently, save and record literature search terms, and keep track of the results that you find.

University of Cambridge clinical students in Year 4 undertaking SSCs.

Students must have attended a 'Part II Database Searching and Bibliographic Training: Pathology and Pharmacology' session when they were Part II students.

This course will address:

*  how to clarify the question (or perhaps questions) on which you need to find literature
*  selecting the databases and other resources you will need to search
*  creating a search strategy and recording a described literature search 

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals.

One session of an hour and a half.

A number of times throughout the year.