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October 2009 Institutional Newsletter
Welcome to the October 2009 Institutional Newsletter.
An update from the BMJ Group.
If you require any assistance in promoting BMJ Group products to your users, please do not hesitate to contact Genie Powers who can supply you with a number of resources.
New this month:
BMJ Group Product Training & Support
BMJ Learning and Best Practice connected...
Conferences you can visit BMJ Group at
The BMJ Product Training & Support team provide Institutions and their end users with tailored and specific training support to ensure maximum benefit from their BMJ product subscription.
In addition to developing training videos and user guides, our Account Development Managers are dedicated to providing institutional customers with product training & support either online or face-to-face via workshops and seminars - so if you feel some training would benefit your institution, please feel free to contact us at trainingandsupport@bmjgroup.com to discuss your requirements.
We are currently running regular online training sessions on Best Practice every THURSDAY at 12.30pm, GMT Daylight Time (GMT +1:00, London). Please encourage your users to attend these free webex sessions to get a better understanding of the product, have the opportunity to ask questions and get the most out of their access to Best Practice. Visit the BMJ Product Training & Support area for registration details.
Are you on Twitter? Do you want to know all the breaking news and information from the BMJ Group as soon as it happens?
We now have a BMJ Product Training & Support twitter page;
providing product updates, training events, literature availability and
much more, now online. Why not follow us?
BMJ Group Product Training and Support UK and Europe
BMJ Group Product Training and Support Asia Pacific
BMJ Group Product Training and Support is now on facebook!
- Connect with other information specialists
- Share ideas on how to promote BMJ Group products within your institution
- Ask questions directly to the Training, Marketing and Sales departments
- Find out updates about all BMJ Group products.
BMJ Group Product Training and Support UK and Europe
BMJ Group Product Training and Support Asia Pacific
Best Practice - new topics online
Best Practice and BMJ Point of Care are the ROW and North American versions of our point-of-care decision support products and now has over 10,000 diagnoses online. Presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention, Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care.
This month we have added a further 16 topics to the site which include:
All updates are now available online
Contact us for a free trial to Best Practice today
Contact us if you would like assistance in promoting Best Practice within your institution
Contact us for more inforamtion about BMJ Point of Care (our point-of care decision support tool for North America only)
BMJ Learning and Best Practice connected
At the BMJ Group, we are constantly looking for ways to ensure clinicians get the most out of out products and are able to easily and efficiently find what they are looking for. Therefore users of Best Practice can now save content from Best Practice to their BMJ Learning 'Plan and Record' functionality.
When accessing information on a topic, users will be able to click on a button which will link the topic to their BMJ Learning personal profile. BMJ Learning is a training website for medical professionals to develop and test their knowledge.
BMJ Case Reports
Do your users want to be published in the largest single collection of case reports online read by healthcare professionals and researchers?
- Now holds over 1,300 case reports online
- Is an excellent cost effective way of raising the profile of your institution
- Shares clinicians experiences
- Eases the publishing pathway for junior doctors
- Plus all case reports published are peer-reviewed by a dedicated team.
To find out more, please contact us.
BMJ Topic Collections
Topic collections provide an alternative route to over 50,000 BMJ articles, arranged into clinical and non-clinical topics. This is designed to ensure clinicians can keep up-to-date on a particluar subject.
Encourage your users to take a look at this enhanced online feature from the BMJ.
Conferences
| Conference name |
Country | Date | Manager present |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jornadas Bibliosalud |
Oviedo, Spain |
14th - 16th October |
Lorenzo Fabbri |
| Frankfurt Bookfair |
Frankfurt,Germany | 14th - 18th October |
Nick Turner Pauline Dilworth  Steve Thorpe  |
| 6th International G-I-N Conference 2009 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
1st - 4th November |
Lorenzo Fabbri |
| BMJ Pandemic Flu |
|---|
| BMJ Group have pulled all our resources together to create pandemicflu.bmj.com to give clinicians all information available on this hot topic. BMJ articles, articles from Best Practice and BMJ Learning modules (new modules available weekly) are amongst the services available on the site and the site is updated as soon as new information becomes available. Clinicans can access all this inforamtion for FREE, plus view the Blogs and follow the BMJ on Twitter so point your users to pandemicflu.bmj.com today. |
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