JBI Systematic Review Training Course

JBI Systematic Review Training (JBICSRTP)
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The JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Programme, delivered by the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ and Clinical School partners, is a four-day course 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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2025 JBI Systematic Review Training course dates

The course is co-hosted by facilitators based in Truro, Cornwall and Taunton, Somerset. These two course delivery sites will be video linked, and face-to-face / onsite attendance is expected over the four days.
This year’s course dates are:
  • Monday 20 October
  • Wednesday 22 October
  • Thursday 23 October
  • Friday 24 October
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. Courses are hybrid delivered.
Course costs are:
Registering your interest in the next course
An Eventbrite form will be available soon to register interest in attending the next training programme.
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