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March 2009 Institutional Newsletter
Welcome to the March 2009 edition of the Institutional Newsletter.
An update on all the news from across the BMJ Group.
The Institutional area on the BMJ Group website is updated on a regular basis so that you can provide your users with up-to-date useful information to get the most of the BMJ products purchased by you.
These include:
Training provided by our account development managers
Email templates to promote the products you have use of
This month we have news and updates for the following:
WEBEX Training
If your Institution has access to Clinical Evidence and would like to know how it is integrated into Best Practice then why not attend and encourage your users to attend one of the webex events hosted by our account development manager, Mark Kragh.
5th March 2009 13:00-14:00 GMT (UK time) - (14:00-15:00 CET)
12th March 2009 13:00-14:00 GMT (UK time) - (14:00-15:00 CET)
When you have registered, in advance, with webex online, you will also find a word document containing the conference telephone numbers you need to call on the day. You will need to enter the following participants PIN number: 507617#. If you do not have a local number to call please call the UK or your nearest country. There are many toll free numbers you can use.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mark if you require any further information.
Best Practice
Best Practice is a completely new online decision support tool from the BMJ Evidence Centre.
It combines the latest research from Clinical Evidence, peer-reviewed expert opinion and guidelines - all presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. It gives you a second opinion in an instant.
Built specifically for use at the point-of-care, it helps meet the real challenges that health professionals face every day and enable them to make the best possible clinical decisions in partnership with their patients
Be one of the first to try Best Practice
For a free trial for your institution, please contact our sales team.
You can read more information about Best Practice at our new website and discover why we believe it truly is a revolutionary new concept in healthcare information.
doc2doc
doc2doc is an new professional networking platform from the BMJ and allows clinicians to create their own online meeting place for friends, colleagues, hospital or society.
Free to use, doc2doc also allows users to:
- Contact colleagues from around the world
- Discuss clinical dilemmas and latest research
- Read what other doctors are doing on our blogs
- Set up their own forum for their own interest
To get the most out of doc2doc, you can set up your own Institutions forum which can be private and only accessible to invited members.
doc2doc is not just for clinicians, librarians can register and use the open parts of the site including the BMJ forum, research forum and we hope to add a new evidence based medicine forum in the future.
Why not join doc2doc and set up your institutional forum today?
BMJ Case Reports
This recently launched website now has over 1,650 peer reviewed case
reports submitted from over 43 countries making this an ever growing
repository. Case reports can be searched by type of case including new
or rare disease, novel treatment as well as by a range of medical
specialties.
Users can submit as many cases as they wish –
these are then considered for publication by our editorial team
currently achieving over an 80% acceptance rate.
BMJ Case Reports is the place to:
- Share clinician experiences
- Ease the publishing pathway for junior doctors
- Publish work of interest
Benefits to users
- Submit as many case reports as you wish
- Access to all published material
- Reuse material for personal use and teaching
- New case reports added continually
- Customised alerts when new content is published
- Community blog
Help to grow this pioneering community.
To arrange a free trial for your institution contact consortiasales@bmjgroup.com or
tel: + 44 (0) 020 738 6693
Publishing, sharing and learning through experience.
casereports.bmj.com
BMJ Masterclasses
For the first time ever, you can watch our new online videos to find out what BMJ Masterclasses delegates have to say about our courses.
Hear first hand from 6 past delegates, including a GP returning from a break, a GP trainee and a GP trainer, as they explain why they attended and how BMJ Masterclasses helped them meet their learning needs.
If you enjoyed our videos, why not forward them to your users and help them decide if BMJ Masterclasses are right for them.
Click on the link to view the full 2009 calendar of BMJ Masterclasses. If you would like to request some printed calendars to display in your institution or distribute to your users, please email us at response.masterclasses@bmjgroup.com.

