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Study Skills

This page has some fantastic resources around studying, whether you are brand new to it or looking for a refresher. The resources cover everything from finding papers, appraising them, writing essays and referencing. You can also sign up to one of our 30-minute training sessions for an overview of the topic.
In this guide you can access key texts available in print or electronically within UHD/DHC, useful websites, and book onto training sessions. Please note that you must have an NHS OpenAthens account to access eBooks. 
If there are books that you would like to recommend, please let us know. You can contact us to make any suggestions to improve this topic guide.

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Online Resources

Below are study and referencing guides from local universities and those that both UHD and DHC receive students from. These all have really great resources so please take a look.

Bournemouth University

Academic Skills Hub (BU students only)
APA Referencing

University of Southampton

Writing Skills
Academic Skills Service
Study Skills
Citing and Referencing

Southampton Solent University

Succeed@Solent Online Learning
Referencing: The Harvard Solent Way
Research Skills & AI
Research Skills Videos

University of Exeter

Study Skills Overview
Study Skills Online Resources
Library & Study Skills Training Sessions and Resources

Health Sciences University

Library & Learning Services: Study Skills
Why Reference?
Which Referencing Style?

Study Skills Sessions with the UHD Library Team

We offer regular 30 minute study skills sessions on MS Teams.
Learn more about these sessions and book by scrolling through below.
Literature Searching
How to find the evidence you need.
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Critical Appraisal
Systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, its value and its relevance in a particular context.
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Academic Writing
Essay and report writing.
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Writing in Plain English
How to make your written language simple to ensure effective communication with patients.
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Reflective Writing
A session to enhance your learning and promote self-awareness.
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Referencing and Plagiarism
After this session you will be able to: define plagiarism and explain the importance of referencing in both academic and professional writing, avoid plagiarism through the understanding and use of different referencing methods, and identify tools and resources that support accurate and effective citation according to the selected referencing style.
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Getting to know BMJ Best Practice and ClinicalKey: Your Clinical Decision Support Tools
Learn how to get the most out of our point of care tools.
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Health Literacy and Clear Communication
This session will help you to define Health Literacy and explain its importance, as well as identify the different factors that can affect health literacy.
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Knowledge and Library Services Induction
After this session, you will be able to: identify and describe the full range of library services and resources available to you, and use specialist NHS search engines and tools to identify the information you need.
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Useful Links

BMJ Best Practice

ClinicalKey

Library Catalogue

OpenAthens

Requests

NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

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