UHMLG Summer Residential 2013 Bursaries

The University Health and Medical Librarian’s Group are pleased to announce two bursaries to attend the UHMLG Summer Residential Conference on 20th and 21st June in Bristol. The theme of the conference in 2013 is “Innovation, Transformation, Continuation: smarter working in health and medical libraries.”

The bursaries are intended to provide new professionals in health, medical or related libraries with an opportunity to attend a two day residential conference and to present and network. To be eligible, candidates must currently work in a health, medical or related library and have less than 5 years post qualification experience. The library can be in any sector. You do not have to be a member of UHMLG to apply.

Recipients will need to prepare a ten minute talk/presentation on an innovation or smart working theme which has made a difference to their career or working pattern. The presentation will take place on 20th June at the Ramada Hotel, Bristol.

All expenses for the residential and travel will be met by UHMLG with the travel expenses reimbursed after the conference.

To apply for the bursary, please send a CV and a summary (of no more than 500 words) of what your presentation would cover. Please send applications as Word document attachments to Erika Gavillet ,Chair of UHMLG, (erika.gavillet@ncl.ac.uk)  by 5pm on Friday 10th May.  Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 20th May. Any queried should be sent to Erika Gavillet at the above email address.

Health Education in Transition – UHMLG Spring Forum 4th February 2013

The Spring Forum proved to be a most successful day with exceptional speakers at an excellent venue with the Royal Society of Medicine proving to be marvellous hosts as always.

The first speaker was Dr Ian Curran, Dean of Excellence, Head of Innovation at the London Deanery. He delivered an extremely visionary presentation on the theme of excellence, with an emphasis on providing tailored services which are patient-focused and allowing true expertise and talent to shine through in the workforce.

Dr Lisa Bayliss Pratt, Director of Nursing, Health Education England, followed almost seamlessly, managing to explain the new HEE structure and purpose whilst emphasising the importance of compassion as part of the training and continuing development of the NHS workforce as a whole.  See her presentation here: LBP HEE and nursing

Next to speak was Prof. Stephen Powis, Medical Director of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust explaining the Education Outcomes Framework. He did this with constant reference to how this might be assisted by librarians and made the Framework meaningful to those in the audience who had heard of the EOF but weren’t sure what it might mean for them.

To cap off a great morning, Dr Julia Whiteman, Director of Appraisal Revalidation and Performance at the London Deanery explained the purpose and system of revalidation. This is something we, in health libraries have known was on the horizon, but were unsure about how we could support it. Dr Whiteman’s clear and consice presentation not only gave us insight into how we might support doctors, but also a plethora of marvellous resources we can point them to. See Dr Whiteman’s presentation here: Educational Implications of Revalidation (Jan 2013)

After a sumptuous lunch and conversations with our kind sponsors, we returned to the Max Raine lecture theatre for the afternoon’s programme.

We were delighted to hear Graham Harris, Assistant Director of Professional Standards at the College of Paramedics, who took us through the development of the profession and the importance of education support for paramedics as they move through their increasingly high profile professional ladder. Even though UHMLG supports all the health professions, it is difficult to find speakers from non-medic backgrounds so we were especially grateful to Graham for speaking. His slides are here: College of Paramedics Presentation 2013

Prof. Megan Quentin-Baxter, Professor of Health Professions Education at Newcastle University provided a very entertaining and thought provoking session on the issues around reuse and licensing of educational resources and objects. She prompted as many questions as answers, and the audience went away with many issues and queries to think about around copyright and the risk management implications of throwing open your resources to the wider world. See her presentation here:Megan Quentin Baxter UHMLG

Judy Atkinson, Library and Information Services Manager at the Royal College of Nursing demonstrated the changing face of health libraries with a very engaging presentation on the exciting new library at the RCN and the rationale behind the changes. Its sleek new design was most impressive and as it will be open to the public – we can all have a look when it reopens in the Autumn of 2013.

David Stewart, Director of Health libraries North West took us on a whistlestop tour of the new structures within the NHS. Despite the enormity of the task, he whisked us through the entire reorganisation within 30 minutes and left us breathless at the end. Very entertaining and informative. His slides are here: David Stewart UHMLG and a very useful overview diagram here: A4 Diagram of NHS Structure as of January 2013

Sue Lacey Bryant, Director of Corporate Affairs and Partnerships, NHS Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group delivered an inspirational closing speech, encouraging us to be passionate about our work and to embrace change (“never let a crisis go to waste!”) and how we have important work to do. She left us all charged to go out and change the library landscape. Her presentation is here: SueLB__UHMLG_04022013_Rev

After closing remarks by Erika Gavillet, Chair of UHMLG, the day drew to an end with a tour of the Royal Society of Medicine Library for those who did not have to dash off to catch their planes, trains, tubes and buses.

The Forum was kindly supported by our sponsors: BMJ Group, EBSCO, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Swets, Wolters Kluwer|Ovid and Wolters Kluwer UpToDate.

Spring Forum – 4th February 2013 – Health Education in Transition – Royal Society of Medicine

Booking is now open for the 2013 UHMLG Spring Forum on Monday 4th February. Our theme this year is Health Education in Transition at a time when both medical/health education and the NHS is in a state of change. Speakers have been carefully selected to provide us with information and insight into the changes taking place and how this will affect us in our roles as both educators and providers of information.

Speakers confirmed:
-Dr Lisa Bayliss Pratt, Director of Nursing, Health Education England – ‘The vision for Health Education England’

-Dr Ian Curran, Dean of Excellence, Head of innovation, London Deanery

-Professor Stephen Powis, Medical Director, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust– speaking on education outcomes framework

-David Stewart, Director of Health Libraries North West – giving an overview of changes in health education which impinge on libraries

-Graham Harris, Assistant Director of Professional Standards (College of Paramedics)

-Prof Megan Quentin-Baxter, Newcastle University, providing an overview of the current trajectory of medical education in relation to technologies and digital literacy

-Sue Lacey-Bryant, Milton Keynes, Director of Corporate Affairs & Partnerships, Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group – speaking on librarians in changing environments

- Judy Atkinson, Library and Information Services Manager, Royal College of Nursing – ‘‘Changes to service provision in the context of current changes in nursing education’.

The Forum will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine, with registration between 9.00 and 10.00 and with a 4.30 finish. An optional tour of the Royal Society is offered at 4.30.

This event is open to non members at a cost of £65 (non commercial) and to members at £50.

If you woudl like to book, please contact Erika Gavillet (erika.gavillet@ncl.ac.uk)

UHMLG membership survey

Earlier this year, we surveyed UHMLG members to find out what you liked most about membership of UHMLG and what else we could do for you.

Most of you liked the opportunity to network that UHMLG gives you and you also wanted more advance notice of our conferences. For a fuller analysis of the short survey, please click on this link -> UHMLG survey results

NHS HE Core Content Access Project

The NHS HE Core Content access pilot was set up in 2008 to allow medical and nursing students in England to access NHS Core Content from the start of their HE course and before commencing clinical placements. The main object of the trial (instigated by UHMLG and the SHALL Content and Collections Development Group, CCDG) was to facilitate information literacy sessions with students, using NHS e-resources from the earliest possible point in the curriculum. It was thought that following training sessions in their higher education (HE) environment, students would go on placement and then ultimately into their professional careers, already competent to access key NHS e-resources.

Reflecting on the project now, we currently have 55 HE institutions facilitating access to these resources for their students. The project has been very light touch with institutions choosing to what degree they want to become involved in teaching and promoting the resources, and feedback has been very positive.

Chris Fowler of Southampton University, one of the key project team members has recently presented a report to the NHS Core Content Development Group on the project to date, and her report is available – along with all the information about the project – on the NHS/HEI Athens wiki, here.

This is a good example of both the relevance and the importance of the work of UHMLG – bringing our expertise to cross-sectoral projects for the benefit of our academic staff and students.

Summer conference presentations now available

The presentations from our speakers at our Summer Conference, Measuring value, demonstrating impact: the importance of health libraries in a changing world are now available at the UHMLG website, here.

Please do contact the authors if you wish to use any of the content.

UHMLG support PHI (Partnerships in Health Information)

UHMLG makes an annual contribution to PHI. They aim to:

• Build the capacity of librarians and other health information professionals to develop innovative information services
• Work collaboratively with others to increase the flow of timely, reliable and appropriate health information
• Facilitate partnerships between health libraries in the UK and those in developing countries

For more information on their work and projects, and to see what our subscription supports, go here.