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Be prepared – update your skills

 Get ready for your assignments, exams or dissertation. Update your skills so that you can find the right evidence you need quickly. Prepare yourself to make your studies more successful.

Are you ready?

Healthcare student in the library carrying books, getting ready to study

Complete our etutorial Check your skills to find out if you’re ready. Get your action plan to start to update your skills.

Starting with an Internet search?

Be prepared for Google: take a look at our presentation Finding Good Stuff on the Internet, then follow up with Evaluating Information on the Internet to make sure you only use good quality information.

Completing your dissertation? Want to submit the best assignments?

Start with an Introduction to literature searching. We’ll take you through the steps you need to complete to make sure you get the evidence you need.

Make the most of library resources – book a webinar to learn how to use healthcare databases.

Get ready to revise for your exams

Borrow from our specialist collection of Medical Exam Revision Books to help you practice exam questions and support your revision.

Make sure you’re using academic articles in your assignments and dissertation

Not sure what an article is? Find out by completing our tutorial What is an article?. Make sure you can critically appraise research articles so that you select good quality evidence – our tutorial Critical Appraisal Tools will help. Finally you’ll need to reference evidence you use – learn how important this is by completing our tutorial Introduction to referencing and plagiarism.

Be prepared

The Health Library offers you lots of opportunities to update your skills and make the best of your studies. We’re here to help you to be successful. Check our online tutorials or book a training session to make the most of what the Health Library can offer you.

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