Planning & Conducting a Systematic Review 2025

This course will enable delegates to understand the process of how the systematic review is put into action and to complete a systematic review involving quantitative studies. The teaching will include online lectures spread over two weeks and some hands-on practice using a range of tools and resources that are available to help researchers carry out reviews. The teaching material will include themed examples spanning both clinical and public health research.
Note - you should schedule two hours daily in addition to the live sessions for the completion of pre-course work.
The live Q&A sessions (from 1pm to 2pm each weekday) are an opportunity to interact with the course tutors to discuss questions from the pre-session material.
Target Audience:
This course is suitable for those planning on doing systematic reviews and also anyone needing to evaluate and interpret existing systematic review evidence. Therefore, this course is widely applicable to researchers, healthcare professionals and students.
Objectives
- Evaluate existing systematic review protocols
- Design and report a protocol with items corresponding to PROSPERO and/or PRISMA-P
- Understand the process of how to implement a protocol to complete a systematic review
- Evaluate and interpret existing full publications of systematic reviews
Course Fees: *** Note - we offer a £20 discount on course fees if paying by debit/credit card - see below rates***
• Student (matriculation details required) = £180
• NHS Lothian/University of Edinburgh = £240
• Other NHS/Academic = £380
• Industry = £740
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