Utilising international good practice:

Why you should take that trip

Sarah Sutton

Clinical Librarian

University Hospitals Leicester

What I am going to talk about

• Vision

• Where should you go?

• Finding your niche

• Benefits

Have a vision

• Know what you want to do

• Think about what may help you get it

• Keep an open mind• Share your idea –

others may find solution

Choose Excellence

You could choose a great conference?

The next CL conference will be at ICML 2009

EAHIL will also be taking part

Lots of other world leading medical librarians

Choose excellence

• Or a study tour of cutting edge institutions

• RCH Guidelines pages superb

• Good quality guidelines• Well presented –

interactive and printable• Attended guidelines

meeting with ED clinicians

• Did presentation, toured library, met library staff

Monash Institute of Health Services Research

• Leaders in evidence based medicine

• Visited hospital library

• Training sessions for medical students

• All in one day

See other highlights of area – Hospital Cafes!

Downtown Melbourne

Health Libraries Inc

Become a TV star

How do you get there??

Get a niche

• PDAs not popularly used in UK when we started – so cutting edge

• May get free resources to trial

• Be in right place and grab that opportunity

• Lots of work but does open doors

• Clinicians see you as expert

Clinical Librarianship – another excellent niche

• Again not a lot of CLs around when the UHL project started

• Get a high profile• Maintain it!

Agree to do presentations

• Get yourself out there and seen as an expert

• If you present on subject you are an expert

• Go on training to improve your skills if you need to

Do some research

• Cochrane Systematic Review – originally done in 2002, updated 2006

• Written by theatre nurses originally – one now a Professor at DMU

• Got funding from Cochrane to do research into something they wanted to know about – real interest

• Travels the world to speak to conferences and as expert witness!

Benefits

• There should be benefits to both sides for a study tour

• We all gained from mine – Anne and Catherine, who I met at Monash are leading workshops at this conference

• Cathy now attends guidelines meeting – got access when she said I was visiting and interested in guidelines

• RCH considering CL pilot• CL appointed at RMH• IP Medline on OVID• Investigated electronic

signatures for ILL

Use your findings

• Special link to Children’s Guidelines

• List of all guidelines not needle in haystack – DMS

• I have had web training and am setting up a patient information page for children’s

Thank you for coming and hope to see you in Brisbane!