Instructors: Dr. Syed Usman Hamdani, Dr. Zille Huma, Ms. Wajeeha Zafar
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Give your academic career a boost and elevate your research capabilities with our comprehensive 6-month certificate course on Systematic Review of Literature for healthcare interventions!
6 Month Certificate Course
career-focused credential that demonstrates high-quality systematic reviews.
Beginner Level
Health Research/Allied Health/Nursing/Social, Behavioral Sciences/Psychology/Public Health/Global Health
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By the end of the course the participants will be able to:
- Articulate the purpose of conducting systematic reviews and the role that evidence
synthesis plays in health care research. - Understand the principles that guide systematic reviews and how these reviews are
different from ‘literature reviews’. - Explain important concepts relevant to systematic reviews
- Formulate research questions for conduct of systematic reviews
- Develop an understanding to search in different academic databases
- Enable participants to collect and extract data from reports of clinical studies
- Enable participants to perform a systematic review of literature in their own fields of
interest - Enable participants to publish the systematic review of literature in target journals
Earn a career certificate
- Earn a career-focused credential that demonstrates your expertise in conducting high-quality systematic reviews.
- Advance your academic and professional journey with a specialized credential in systematic review techniques.
Course description — 9 Modules
The course is designed for people of a broad range of professional backgrounds. The course will enable participants to perform a systematic review of literature in their own fields of interest. Over the span of 6 months the course will acquaint participants with practicalities of conducting a systematic review of literature through interactive hands-on workshops, including access to online resources, using Software and learning through interactive group discussions.
Completion certificate will be issued by the on the basis of completing a systematic review of literature and having it ‘passed by a marker’.
Core Objectives:
- Recognize features of systematic reviews as a research design
- Recognize the importance of using rigorous methods to conduct a systematic review of literature
- Identify the elements of a well-defined review question
- Understand the steps in a systematic review
Core Objectives:
- Recognize the importance of Cochrane Protocols
- Identify the information that should be included in the background of a systematic review
- Review PRISMA-P guidelines
- Skim through PROSPERO database/duplication of work
- Formulating review questions using PICO framework
- Recognize the key components of a well written objective
- Identify the eligibility criteria for studies to be included in a systematic review
- Data synthesis strategy
- Recognize the structure of a protocol
- Template of PROSPERO protocol
Core Objectives:
- Search strategy development
- Suggest concepts and terms to be used in a search strategy
- Selecting databases
- Designing search strategies for Pubmed
- Training in Pubmed
- Identify the key sources to search when conducting a systematic review
- Identify the elements of the search process that need to be documented and reported
- Conducting a search and reference management
- Search using key terms and search strategy
- Training in EndNote & Rayyan software for screening of bibliography
- PRISMA Flow Chart
Core Objectives:
- Recognize the key features of the study selection process
- Identify the data required from a study included in a systematic review
- Recognize the different types and formats of outcome data in the included studies
- Extract the data from the included studies
Core Objective:
- Assess the risk of bias arising from the randomization process in the systematic reviews focusing on clinical trials
- Assess the risk of bias due to deviations from the intended interventions in the included studies
- Assess the risk of bias due to missing outcome data in the included studies
- Assess the risk of bias in measurement of the outcome in the included studies
- Assess the risk of bias due to selective reporting
- Reach a judgement on the overall ‘risk of bias’ in the included studies
- Identify ways of incorporating ‘Risk of bias’ assessment into the analysis
Core Objectives:
- What is methodological and clinical heterogeneity
- Data extraction forms
- Establishing inter-rater reliability
- Data extraction process
- Reporting results
Core Objectives:
- Define a meta-analysis
- Decide when it is appropriate to conduct a meta-analysis
- Forest Plots
- Choice of software RevMan/CMA/R
- Reporting Quantitative Results
Core Objectives:
- Recognize characteristics of different effect measures
- Identify ways in which continuous outcomes and their comparisons can be expressed
- Identify and understand the data presented in forest plots
Core Objectives:
- Identify ways of ensuring consistency in a systematic review
- Identify elements of the ‘Summary of findings’ table
- Decide how to present an outcome in a ‘Summary of findings’ table
- Identify the elements of good reporting of systematic review results
- Understand the purpose of ‘Authors’ conclusions’ in a systematic review
- Recognize features of a Cochrane
- Review abstract
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