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Acute Medicine: A Practical Guide to the Management of Medical Emergencies
Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies
Applied Mixed Models in Medicine
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Clinical Communication in Medicine
Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care: Strategies for Lifelong Learning
Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Emergency Triage
Emergency Triage: Telephone Triage and Advice
Essential Simulation in Clinical Education
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Geriatric Emergencies
Geriatric Emergencies: A Discussion-based Review
Getting Started in Health Research
Guidelines for Reporting Health Research: A User's Manual
Hand Hygiene: A Handbook for Medical Professionals
Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas
Healthcare Simulation Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice
Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients
How to Assess Doctors and Health Professionals
How to Develop Your Healthcare Career: A Guide to Employability and Professional Development
How to Facilitate Lifestyle Change: Applying Group Education in Healthcare
How to Manage Dementia in General Practice
How to Succeed at the Medical Interview
How to Survive a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit: The Physician's Roadmap for Success
How to Teach in Clinical Settings
Manual of Research Techniques in Cardiovascular Medicine
Multiple Choice Questions for Haematology and Core Medical Trainees
Painless Evidence-Based Medicine
Pancreatitis: Medical and Surgical Management
Pocket Guide to GastrointestinaI Drugs
Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors
Practical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review Toolkit
Practical Transfusion Medicine
Pre-Hospital Paediatric Life Support: The Practical Approach
Researching Medical Education
Review Questions for MRI
Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence
Simulated Patient Methodology: Theory, Evidence and Practice
Textbook of Surgery
The Hands-on Guide to Diabetes Care in Hospital
Understanding Medical Education: Evidence,Theory and Practice
Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching
Art of Change Leadership: Driving Transformation In a Fast-Paced World
Business Orchestration: Strategic Leadership in the Era of Digital Convergence
CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations
Coaching at Work: Powering Your Team with Awareness, Responsibility and Trust
Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus
Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership & Corporate Reinvention from the C-Suite Elite
Effective Healthcare Leadership
Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core
Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement
The Enlightened Leader: An Introduction to the Chakras of Leadership
Essential Midwifery Practice: Leadership, Expertise and Collaborative Working
The Five Literacies of Global Leadership: What Authentic Leaders Know and You Need to Find Out
Growth Champions: The Battle for Sustained Innovation Leadership
Guide to CFO Success: Leadership Strategies for Corporate Financial Professionals
The I of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing
Inside the Customer Universe: How to Build Unique Customer Insight for Profitable Growth and Market Leadership
The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Kanban and Change Leadership: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Leadership Blind Spots and What To Do About Them
The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming an Accountable Leader
The Leadership Journey: How to Master the Four Critical Areas of Being a Great Leader
Leadership in Psychiatry
Leadership Lessons from the Ancient World: How Learning from the Past Can Win You the Future
Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World
Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
Managerial Decision Making and Leadership: The Essential Pocket Strategy Book
The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule
The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual: Strategic and Analytical Tools for Growth
Off-Centered Leadership: The Dogfish Head Guide to Motivation, Collaboration & Smart Growth
The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching: Insights and Issues for a New Era
Positive Psychology and Change: How Leadership, Collaboration and Appreciative Inquiry Create Transformational Results
Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations
Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching: Assessment, Activities, and Strategies for Success
Preparing Principals for a Changing World: Lessons from Effective School Leadership Programs
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning
Real Time Leadership Development
Rebuilding Trust in Banks: The Role of Leadership and Governance
Reflections on Character and Leadership
Reflections on Leadership and Career Development: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries
Relational Coaching: Journeys Towards Mastering One-to-One Learning
Return on Impact: Leadership Strategies for the Age of Connected Relationships
Straight to the Top: CIO Leadership in a Mobile, Social, and Cloud-based World
Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works
Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character
The Volunteer Management Handbook: Leadership Strategies for Success
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change and Organizational Development
Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise
Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent: How Organizations Leverage On-the-Job Development
Women and Leadership
Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others
(Full-text access is available only to staff and students with OpenAthens accounts from East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.)
CAN-Implement©: Planning for Best-Practice Implementation
Clinical Wisdom and Evidence-Based Healthcare
Comparison of Meta-Aggregation and Meta-Ethnography as Qualitative Review Methods
Critically Appraising Evidence for Healthcare
Guideline Adaptation: Conducting Systematic, Exhaustive, and Reproducible Searches
Historical Emergence of Qualitative Synthesis
Implementing Evidence Using an Action Research Framework
International Collaboration in Translational Health Science
Knowledge Translation in Healthcare
Mixed Methods Approach to Evidence Synthesis
Public Engagement in Translating Knowledge to Action
Stakeholder Engagement: The Role of Tacit Knowledge and Value
Statistics for Systematic Review Authors
Synthesis of Prevalence and Incidence Data
Synthesizing Descriptive Evidence
Synthesizing Economic Evidence
Synthesizing Evidence from Narrative: Text and Opinion
Synthesizing Evidence of Diagnostic Accuracy
Synthesizing Evidence of Harm
Synthesizing Evidence of Risk
Synthesizing Qualitative Evidence
Synthesizing Quantitative Evidence
Translation Science and the JBI Model of Evidence-Based Healthcare
Turning Knowledge into Action: Practical Guidance on How to Do Integrated Knowledge Translation Research
There are hundreds of medical and surgical ebooks available via ClinicalKey (from Elsevier), far too many to list here!
(Full-text access is available to staff and students with OpenAthens accounts from either East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, or Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.)
Kortext is an easy to use ebook platform, and features many of our most popular titles and textbooks, free and in full-text.
Featuring around 130 ebooks, subject areas include key clinical topics, nursing, primary care and general practice, palliative care, health management, as well as mentoring and coaching titles.