Comprehensive systematic review training programme

Length of session:
The JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program (CSRTP) is a one, three or five-day programme depending on your research needs or areas of interest.

  • Module 1: Introduction to evidence-based healthcare and the systematic review of evidence (Day 1).
  • Module 2: Systematic review of quantitative evidence (Day 2 & 3).
  • Module 3: Systematic review of evidence generated by qualitative research, narrative and text (Day 4 & 5).

Please note Module 1 is a prerequisite for Modules 2 and 3.

Description:
The Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program is a one, three or five-day programme depending on your research needs or areas of interest.

Module 1: Introduction to e-based healthcare and the systematic review of evidence (Day 1)

Learn about evidence-based healthcare today, the importance of systematic reviews, creating systematic review protocols and key material regarding searching the literature.

Module 2: Systematic review of quantitative evidence (Day 2 & 3)

Learn about common research designs such as randomised-controlled trials, how to critically appraise research, identify important sources of bias in research, introduction to statistics in evidence-based healthcare, learn when and how to conduct meta-analysis.

Module 3: Systematic review of evidence generated by qualitative research, narrative and text (Day 4 & 5)

Learn about the importance of qualitative research in healthcare; common qualitative research designs such as phenomenology and ethnography; how to critically appraise qualitative research, identify different methods for synthesising qualitative research; and, learn when and how to perform a meta-aggregation or meta-synthesis of qualitative research.

Please note Module 1 is a prerequisite for Modules 2 and 3.

To register:

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Date: 

Wednesday 6 September 2017 - 09:00 to Sunday 10 September 2017 - 16:30

Facilitators: 

Location: 

Park Inn Hotel, Cape Town

Other contributors:

McCulloch H1
1 JBI, Australia

Target audience: 

We invite researchers and clinicians to participate and learn how to develop a focused question, search for relevant literature, appraise and synthesise evidence arising from research.

Type of session: 

This programme incorporates both theory and hands-on experience. During the programme participants will develop and complete a protocol.

Objectives: 

Prepares researchers and clinicians to develop, conduct and report comprehensive systematic reviews in order to provide the strongest possible evidence to inform decision making or clinical guidelines in healthcare. This programme incorporates both theory and hands-on experience as you learn how to develop a focused question, search for relevant literature, appraise and synthesise evidence arising from research. By the end of the programme you will have a completed protocol and be ready to commence your review. Participants who successfully complete the programme can become Certified Reviewers, accredited for a period of two years as authors in the JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), a refereed online journal, the content of which is indexed in Embase, Scopus, Mosby’s Index (Elsevier), CINAHL (EBSCO) and MEDLINE.