Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
15th National Rural & Remote Allied Health Conference - 21st - 23rd October 2024, Mildura VIC
Sydney Health Partners Implementation Science Academy webinar Economic Evaluation Alongside Implementation Studies - 24th October 2024, 12-1pm
Sydney Health Partners Perioperative Care Clinical Academic Group translational research symposium - 24th October 2024, 4pm-7.30pm
Australian Physiotherapy Association Focus24 Conference - 31st October - 2nd November 2024, Perth WA
Trials Without Tribulations 2024 workshop - 1st November 2024, Westmead NSW
80th Orthoptics Australia Annual Conference - 2nd - 4th November 2024, Adelaide SA
Society for Mental Health Research 2024 Conference - 6th - 8th November 2024, Sydney NSW
Luminesce Alliance Innovation for Children's Health Conference - 7th - 8th November 2024, Sydney NSW
International Conference on Social Work in Health & Mental Health - 19th - 22nd November 2024, Melbourne VIC
Nutrition Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting - 3rd - 6th December 2024, Sydney NSW
SWSLHD Library Training Sessions - ongoing
These training sessions are offered regularly and are bookable via the Library website or MyHealth Learning.
1. Research Skills for Allied Health Staff:
These sessions will give staff a deeper knowledge in using relevant information resources from the Library and on the CIAP platform. They will also include how to search relevant clinical databases to obtain evidence-based information and how to access full-text journal articles, ebooks, and other resources on or off-site.
2. EndNote Basics
Endnote is now available to SWSLHD staff on NSW Health computers by request. This session provides training in using EndNote for the storage and management of bibliographic references
3. Systematic Review Training
This course is divided into three sections which can be attended individually or as a progression:
a) Systematic Review Series – Methodology
This training will present an introduction to systematic review methodology, planning a review protocol and sources to register it.
b) Systematic Review Series - Systematic literature searching
This workshop will present a thorough, reliable and reproducible method for planning and conducting the search within multiple databases.
c) Systematic Review Series - Managing citations and PRISMA report
This session will focus on managing the retrieved citations, dual reviewing process, and search methods documentation as a requirement for systematic review publication.
4. Keeping Up to Date
Maintaining current awareness of developments in your field is essential for professional development as well as providing evidence-based patient care. This practical session will cover the use of Library databases and other resources for keeping up to date. At the completion of the course participants will be able to:
- Set up alerts on the contents pages of relevant journals
- Save database searches and set up search alerts
- Use Google Scholar to keep up to date
- Find relevant conferences
5. Where to publish?
This practical session will help participants to be confident in their ability to choose the right journal for their publications.
6. Online Research Profiles Management - Optimising your ORCID ID
This course will help you to improve your online research presence and to optimise your Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID).
Also see the SWSLHD Library Education page for more training sessions.
NETWORKS FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
If you know of a conference coming up soon that is not on our list, let us know! (See Allied Health Research Contacts)
