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

 You live, work and study in a digital world. It is so important that you develop 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, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills.

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We have been showcasing how the Health Library can support you in developing your skills. Please explore these blog posts which detail the training and development opportunities available to you:

  1. What are digital and information skills? Have you got them?
  2. Your digital skills – how can the Health Library help?
  3. Information skills to support literature searching
  4. Analyse your question to get your literature search off to a good start
  5. Develop your search skills with our online tutorials
  6. Learn to use the right resource
  7. Is the information you find good quality?
  8. Make sure you use information ethically
  9. Use your digital skills to share the information you find
  10. Stay up-to-date with updates in your field
  11. More training options to develop your digital skills
  12. Let us know what you thought

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