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Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Subject guide for all QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences students and staff. Features video guides to planning and running database searches, and using EndNote for reference management.

Welcome to the Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences subject guide

This subject guide connects you to your Subject Librarian, and provides direct links to key databases, and video guides relevant to QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences (MDBMS) students and staff.

Subject Librarian support 

Richard Fallis
028 9097 8900 
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Photo of Richard Fallis Subject Librarian for Medicine Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences standing in the Medical Library

Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, provides training and support to QUB students and staff, on accessing Library resources, searching databases, and using EndNote. He is unable to provide support with assignment or dissertation/thesis writing, statistical tools, or Covidence/Rayyan.

Contact Richard to schedule one-to-one or small group training. Timetabled group training for QUB modules is available on request.

Richard also runs regular online database and EndNote training sessions. Upcoming sessions are shown below. To register, please email Richard.

Ovid databases and Web of Science Core Collection for MDBMS

Friday 14th February 2025 10:00 - 11:30

This session will cover how to plan a literature search, and run it in Ovid databases such as MEDLINE ALL, and in Web of Science Core Collection. Saving searches and exporting results from these databases will also be covered.

EndNote for MDBMS

Friday 21st February 2025 10:00 - 11:30

This session will cover how to install EndNote Desktop for free via the Library at Queen's. Importing, organising and deduplicating references will be shown, as well as how to use EndNote's Cite While You Write tool to add citations and reference lists directly to Word documents.

Other training and support

 
Essay writing and statistics support

Unfortunately, the Library is unable to offer essay or dissertation/thesis writing support.

Undergraduate students should contact the QUB Learning Development Service for support in these areas:

Postgraduate students should contact the QUB Graduate School:

In addition, all undergraduate and postgraduate students at Queen's can get statistics support from the EPS Mathematics & Statistics Helpdesk (MASH):

Open research and publication fee queries

Student and staff queries about open research, journal publication fees, and the university's Research Portal should be directed to the Library's Open Research Team: openaccess@qub.ac.uk

Alternatively, lots of useful information relating to these topics can be found in the Library's Open Access subject guide: