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Develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills with the Health Library

 You live, work and study in a digital world. You need the right skills to maximise your potential to achieve success in your studies, work and for your patients.

The Health Library can help you to:

  • develop your digital skills
  • demonstrate your skills for your course, revalidation, appraisals and professional development
  • deliver increased productivity, improved quality and best patient care

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Digital skills are described in a number of ways and have changed over time. Here are some of the ways we can help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver:

Information Skills

Complete our etutorials to develop your skills to find, interpret, evaluate, manage and share information.

Learning Skills

Complete our etutorials to learn in a technology-rich environment. They offer you flexible learning when you need it and include video, audio and interactive content.

ICT Skills

Use our digital content to demonstrate your digital skills, including ebooks, searchable databases and healthcare-specific tools, available on different devices.

Participate in digital networks

Explore networking opportunities to communicate with the library community.

Media Literacy

Develop your skills to critically read online content and create your own content. We offer a range of etutorials to help you to develop your skills.

Digital Scholarship

When you participate in academic, professional or research activities, remember that the Health Library can support you with specialist resources and skills development.

Digital Identity and Wellbeing

You can communicate safely with the Health Library. We also offer resources to support your wellbeing.

What can you do?

Over the next couple of months we’ll be highlighting all the ways we can help you to

develop your digital skills ** demonstrate your digital skills ** deliver using your digital skills

Check our blog for more posts coming out soon. Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website.

More help

Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need or want to develop your digital skills.

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