ME-617 Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis (Autumn 2023)

• EX- 602 Philosophy of Science
• EndNote course

Upon completion of the course, the candidate

Knowledge

• will have insight and understanding of various kinds of review studies
• will have in-depth knowledge of the importance of outlining a clear research question and search strategy performing a systematic literature search
• will understand the importance and consequences of critically appraising studies appropriate for inclusion

Skills

• can formulate a relevant research question related to their own research topic
• can build a search strategy to systematically search relevant databases
• can choose relevant tools to critically appraise the included studies
• can develop a data extraction form and present a synthesis of findings

General competences

• can critically reflect on the basic principles of systematic reviews and its relevance to evidence-based health care
• can communicate and critically reflect on the risk of bias in studies and how to assess this

• Principles of systematic reviews and systematic review tools
• Drafting a research question and outlining protocol and search strategy
• Advanced literature search and inclusion of studies with quality assessment
• Data extraction and synthesis (qualitative/quantitative/narrative)

Participation in compulsory lectures as stated in the course pamphlet.

Individual two-week home examination based on individual project work.

The examination will be assessed as pass or fail.