Get wise!

Are you returning to study? Or perhaps you need to update your professional development for your appraisal. Maybe you’re reviewing Trust policies and guidelines or trying to identify the best, safest treatment for your patients.

We offer a range of teaching sessions that will help you:

Find authoritative healthcare research to inform patient care, service improvement, research and coursework

Access our online collections of journals, books, and information tools

Understand the evidence in published research to identify validity and bias

Learn how to use Twitter effectively for professional networking

Run journal clubs for your colleagues and teams

Use Endnote reference software to store and manage your references

Improve your reflective writing for your professional portfolios and appraisals

Prepare your study skills ahead of starting a new course

Set the groundwork for getting your research published

Produce information and education materials for your patients

Use technologies in your own teaching

Develop effective and interactive e-learning modules

Create screencasts, webinars and videos

Create polls for interactive courses

Create and share custom boards

See all our courses here.

Online or face-to-face?

The choice is yours! You can attend our face-to-face sessions which take place in our well-equipped teaching rooms at our libraries at Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath.

Or you can join our online sessions from the comfort of your home or workplace.

Sessions tailored to your profession 

We can tailor our sessions to suit the needs of professional groups and teams, for example managers, nurses, doctors, health professionals or administrative staff.

We can also visit your department to run interactive sessions for small groups. Contact uhsussex.library@nhs.net for further information.