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The JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Programme, delivered by the University of Plymouth and Clinical School partners, is a four-day programme that prepares researchers and practitioners to develop, conduct and report robust, high-quality systematic reviews.
On the programme you will learn how to use different reviews, such as scoping, systematic and umbrella reviews, and different evidence types to provide the strongest possible evidence to inform decision making or clinical guideline development in healthcare. 
This world-class systematic review training programme incorporates theory and practical hands-on experience. We encourage potential candidates to have a clear idea of a review they would like to conduct prior to the course starting, expecting them to have some familiarity with the evidence relating to that topic area and to be able to frame a search question. 
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The Programme
Module 1: Introduction to Evidence-based Healthcare and the Systematic Review of Evidence 
Learn about evidence-based healthcare, creating systematic review protocols, and key material regarding searching the literature. 
Module 2: The Systematic Review of Quantitative Evidence 
Learn about common research designs such as randomised controlled trials, how to critically appraise research, identify important sources of bias in research, an introduction to commonly encountered statistics in clinical research, when and how to conduct meta-analysis. 
Module 3: The Systematic Review of Evidence Generated by Qualitative Research, Narrative and Text 
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-synthesis of qualitative research. 

Course details

Currently the course is run annually. Details of the next course are highlighted in the news items section below. Courses are hybrid delivered.
Course costs are:
Registering your interest in the next course
An Eventbrite form will be available soon to register interested in attending the next training programme. 
Details on the University of Plymouth JBI Centre of Excellence

2024 JBI Systematic Review Course Dates Released

The University of Plymouth SouthWest Centre of Evidence Synthesis and Implementation has announced the details of their 2024 course.
The course will be run over the following four days in October:
  • Monday 21 October 
  • Wednesday 22 October
  • Thursday 23 October 
  • Friday 26 October
Attendance at all four days will be mandatory to complete the programme. The programme will be run as a hybrid programme, available online and/or face-to-face on two of our South West Clinical School sites, in Taunton, Somerset and in Truro, Cornwall (onsite spaces will be limited).