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PAH Library and Knowledge Centre: Training

Endnote Basics

Endnote will automatically create and format your bibliography. Helpful for reports, research papers, case studies and more. Suitable for nursing, medical and allied health staff.

  • Installing and setting-up Endnote
  • Creating and saving a new Endnote library
  • Creating and importing your citations/references
  • Identifying duplicate citations in your Endnote library
  • Attaching or importing full-text PDFs for note taking
  • Create in-text references and bibliography in your Word document

 Watch the Pre-Recorded Training Session 2024  

 

Literature Searching: with CKN

Build your research skills and find information for your literature review, work project or research submission. Suitable for nursing, medical and allied health staff.

  • CKN overview
  • CKN basic search & saving your results
  • CKN advanced searching – Booleans, wildcards, expanders
  • Refining search terms & keywords
  • Other systems to search for information

Watch the Pre-Recorded Training Session 2024  

   

Rayyan Basics

Setting up a group systematic review using the Rayyan screening platform.

  • Features of Rayyan
  • Planning your screening process
  • Preparing your citations for import
  • Screening and tagging
  • Exporting to Excel

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Word Intermediate: Formatting your articles and reports

Format your articles and documents faster for publication, and increase your MS Word skills to an intermediate level.

  • Creating text styles
  • Changing page orientation
  • Adding page numbers, header/footers and watermarks
  • Adding table of contents
  • Captioning images/figures/tables
  • Adding reviewer notes

Watch the Pre-Recorded Training Session 2024 

 

Excel, Teams, Forms, Power Apps and more

For pre-recorded Microsoft Office training:

  1. https://ilearn.health.qld.gov.au/d2l/home/61356
  2. click log-in with novel.
  3. Go to Online Resources
  4. Go to Business Essentials
  5. Then scroll down to Microsoft Office 365.

 

 

Clinical Skills Development Service Online Courses

CSDS provides a range of free courses to QH staff to develop or refresh clinical skills.

Electrocardiograph (ECG) rhythm interpretation ECG-Online

This course is designed to equip you with a thorough understanding of electrocardiography (ECG) and the skills necessary to interpret ECGs accurately.  Register

All CSDS courses can be found here: https://csds.qld.edu.au/courses/ 

Endnote Advanced

Expand your knowledge of Endnote with features for managing files, managing citations and collaborating on documents.

  • Combining and merging Endnote libraries
  • Using 'find and replace' function for metadata clean-up
  • Using 'change/move/copy fields' function for metadata clean-up
  • Advanced note-taking with custom fields and smart groups
  • Importing or creating endnote styles
  • Travelling libraries for review and collaboration

Watch the Pre-recorded Training Session 2024 

 

Systematic Review Essentials 

Are you new to SRs or looking for a refresher? This training provides an overview of the entire process, with templates, tips & tricks to make your SR easier and faster.

Pre-recorded sessions 2024

Please contact the Library for the supporting PAH SRMA Guide.

 

UpToDate for Physicians

A quick 15min overview of getting the best out of UpToDate for medicine.

  • Getting access on PC and mobile
  • Searching by topic
  • Finding info for your specialty - practice updates, topics, calculator, pathways

 

   

Statistics & Bioinformatics

QCIF Bioinformatics - One-on-one advice related to bioinformatics, biostatistics and biodata. Clinical researchers and students from Metro South Hospital and Health Service can book appointments with a statistician for advice and support regarding experimental design, analysis, publications, grant proposals, and data capture and management. Biostatisticians are available by appointment every weekday for an online meeting via Teams/Zoom or by appointment (Offices Level 4, Clinical Research Facility R Wing, Main Hospital Building #1, entry via ground Level)

Training by appointment: Book here

More information on Data: De-identification and the Privacy Act / De‐Identification Decision‐Making Framework

 

 

Copyright Basics: Publishing and sharing your work

Avoid common copyright pitfalls when developing your work projects, presentations and publishing articles.

  • Basics of copyright licencing and infringements
  • Differences between copyright usage for work, education, or commerce
  • Seeking copyright consent
  • Providing copyright consent
  • Examples of copyright in action

Watch the Pre-Recorded Training Session 2024 

   
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