MedHand for Foundation Year Doctors

Barts Health NHS Trust has been selected to pilot MedHand under the auspicies of UCL Partners. It will be made available to foundation year doctors on their own devices. Access BNF, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme, Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, together with local guidelines and protocols on your own mobile device.

The package of resources will aid work based learning and the treatment and care of patients by giving rapid access to reliable and up-to-date information on the go. Optimising access to information can potentially aid junior doctors' training, ensuring accurate prescribing and elevating the quality of information provided to patients.

To express an interest in subscribing to this package, please contact your Local NHS Library with your name, department, email address, phone number and Foundation Year.

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  Whipps Cross: 020 8535 6973 x5311

Newham: 020 7363 8016 x8016
library.enquiry@bartshealth.nhs.uk

DynaMed – try it today!

Barts Health NHS Trust Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) have arranged a three-month trial, from August to October 2013, of DynaMed, a point of care resource tool similar to UpToDate. DynaMed provides clinically organised summaries for over 3,000 disease and condition topics, incorporating over 1,000 drug topics, and was recently chosen by NHS Scotland as its resource of choice.

• Updated daily making it the most current point of care tool on the market. 
• Aims to answer clinical questions during practice.
• Offers direct reference links to more than 2,000 full-text journal titles.  
• Provides targeted support for nurses and allied health professionals through the Nursing and Rehabilitation Reference Centres.
  
• Offers a facility to obtain CPD points.
• CME form can be used to register online learning which can then be submitted as part of a Doctors CPD portfolio.
• Available as a mobile application via smartphones including PDA, Blackberry or iPhone.              

How to access DynaMed

From the Trust intranet, go to the ‘I want to’ menu and select “Try DynaMed – a new point of care tool” OR go to the 'access a systems and applications' page and select “DynaMed - a new clincial reference tool on trial at Barts Health.” 

Click here to access it using your NHS Athens username and password.

You can also download the DynaMed app to use on your mobile device.  Contact the library for an individual logon.

All clinicians are encouraged to take advantage of the trial and put DynaMed through its paces as it has received extremely good reviews and is considerably more affordable than UpToDate. Please feedback your thoughts by completing a brief online survey.