Looking for opportunities to brush up on your information skills from the comfort of your own home?
Find below a series of online e-Learning resources designed to support evidence-based practice and supplement our Knowledge Skills Training sessions.
If you are looking for help with individual resources, you'll find links to tutorials and step-by-step guides on our Help Guides page.
e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH)
e-LfH is a Health Education England Programme in partnership with the NHS and relevant Professional Bodies providing high quality e-learning resources free of charge for the training of the NHS workforce across the UK, including the Doctors in Training (DiT) induction e-learning programme.
The online training resources in the e-LfH Hub enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point. They are designed and built to be engaging and interactive, using quality images, video, audio and animation to help trainees learn and retain knowledge. Content is presented using various templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies and ‘knowledge bites’.
If you have previously created an e-LfH account, you can link it to your OpenAthens login so you won’t lose any of your existing e-learning. If you are new to e-LfH, the Hub will create an account for you and link that new account to your OpenAthens login details.
Literature Searching
Literature searching modules from eLearning for health / Health Education England
Health Literacy
Health Literacy: you can make a difference (Health Education England / NHS Education for Scotland)
NHS Elect
NHS Elect provides free e-learning and coaching on a wide range of topics, including management, leadership and communiction. Some of the courses, webinars and videos are available without registration, but for full access to everything it's recommended to create a personal account. Access the NHS Elect website here.
Critical Appraisal
Critically Appraising the Evidence Base (Knowledge for Healthcare Learning Academy)
Cochrane Interactive Learning – critical appraisal of intervention reviews
Finding and appraising the evidence (HealthKnowledge UK)
Research and Statistics
eLearning Modules (NHS Health Research Authority)
Understanding Health Research (University of Glasgow)
Analyse This! Free online tutorial in data analysis
HRP Statistics Portal YouTube playlist of statistics and research topics, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) Human Reproduction Programme. An online portal is also available, but users will need to request access. Visit the WHO HRP page here.
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-Based Practice tutorials and resources (American Speech-Language Hearing Association)
Evidence-Based Medicine guides and tutorials (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Peer Review
Translating Critical Appraisal into Meaningful Peer Review (U.S. Cochrane Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) – free registration required