A round-up of upcoming Cochrane events and conferences
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March
Planung und Durchführung systematischer Reviews
Planning and conducting systematic reviews – this event will be in German
Date: 27-29 March and 17-18 April, Krems, Austria
This workshop will take place as a two-part course with a mix of lectures and practical exercises. Participants will learn how to plan and conduct a systematic review. In the workshop, participants will go through all the steps of a systematic review themselves using an example. More information and sign up here.
5th Knowledge for Development Partnerships (K4DP) meeting
Date: 30 March: 2.00pm – 4.00pm EAT (check the event in your timezone) Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya – English (Hybrid event)
K4DP is an initiative inaugurated in April 2017 at the UN office Geneva to sustain Knowledge for development goals for stakeholders all over the world. This meeting is organized to develop the Kenya Knowledge Agenda for development. More information and registration
April
Planung und Durchführung systematischer Reviews
Planning and conducting systematic reviews – this event will be in German
Date: 27-29 March and 17-18 April, Krems, Austria
This workshop will take place as a two-part course with a mix of lectures and practical exercises. Participants will learn how to plan and conduct a systematic review. In the workshop, participants will go through all the steps of a systematic review themselves using an example. More information and sign up here.
Introduction to Cochrane Methodology
Date: 17 - 21 April 2023, Lund, Sweden
The course is primarily aimed at Ph.D. students and researchers from the fields of medicine, health science or epidemiology but is open to join for everyone interested in creating or understanding systematic reviews. The course is aimed to be conducted at campus in Lund from Monday to Thursday and online over Zoom for Friday. More information can be found here.
Einführung in die systematische Literaturrecherche – online
Introduction to Systematic literature search - this event will be in German
Date: 17-27 April, online
In this workshop, participants will receive a theoretical introduction to the basics and methods of systematic literature research using practical examples. The content and exercises can be worked on by participants at their own pace and then discussed in video conferences. The workshop is aimed at people who wanted to search for medical literature more efficiently. More information and registration here.
The REPRISE project: an evaluation of REProducibility and Replicability in Syntheses of Evidence
Date: 20 April, 10:00 – 11:00am (UTC+1) (check the event in your time zone)
In this talk, Dr Matthew Page will present data collected for the REPRISE project. The objectives of the project are to evaluate in a sample of systematic reviews of interventions: (1) how frequently methods are reported completely, and how often review data and other materials are shared publicly; (2) systematic reviewers’ views on sharing review data and other materials and their understanding of and opinions about replication of reviews; (3) the extent of variation in results when we independently reproduce meta-analyses, and; (4) the extent of variation in results when we crowdsource teams to independently repeat the search, selection, data collection and analysis steps of a sample of original reviews. For more information and to register, click here.
Network Meta-Analysis Workshop
Date: 26- 28 April 09:30 – 16:30 UTC+1 (check the event in your timezone)
This in-person course (University of Galway) is open to everyone and will focus on the role of network meta-analyses in comparative effectiveness research for healthcare interventions. The objective of this course is to examine the full process of a network meta-analysis from the planning stage and the preparation of the protocol up to the final report and publication of the manuscript. More information and registration here
Introduction to GRADE
Date: 28 April 2023 10:00 – 4:30 IST (check the event in your timezone)
This introductory workshop aims to educate participants for grading the evidence in systematic reviews and create a ‘Summary of findings’ (SoF) table. Further information/registration: Further information and registration detail will be provided on the ICMR website event calendar 1 month prior to the event.
May
4-day course on systematic review methods 2023
Date: 1-4 May, Odense, Denmark
The 4-day course is an expansion on the 1-day introductory course and participants will be able to develop high quality, methodologically sound systematic review protocols of healthcare interventions after attending this course. More information and registration here.
Einführung in R
Introduction to R – this event will be in German
Date: 10 May, Krems, Austria
In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of the statistical programming language R. Through demonstrations and exercises, they will learn step by step how to read, transform, visualize, and analyze data in R. This will enable the participants to analyze their data in a transparent and reproducible way and will also allow them to perform automated data analysis.Sign up here.
How study-level data management in RevMan Web makes systematic review production quicker and easier
Date: 10 May 14:00 14:00 UTC [Check the time in your time zone] OR
11 May 06:00 UTC [Check the time in your time zone]
From 25 April 2023, Cochrane will be moving fully over to RevMan Web (RevMan 5 will no longer be accessible). In this webinar, Rebecka Hall (Product Owner of RevMan), Gert van Valkenhoef (Head of IT Infrastructure and Development) and Ella Flemyng (Editorial Product Lead) will discuss these improvements and the benefits for authors using RevMan to develop systematic reviews for Cochrane or other organisations. Sign up to the first session or sign up to the second session.
How to extract, analyze and present data in scoping reviews
Date: 18th May, 11:00am – 12:00pm (UTC+1) (check the event in your time zone)
How to extract, analyse and present data in scoping reviews can be challenging. This webinar will explore where and how you should extract the data from multiple evidence sources, the best approach in analyzing your collected data-including how to manage qualitative data, and novel ways to present your findings. More information and register here.
Workshop on Developing a Protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review Cochrane Malaysia and Cochrane Indonesia
Date: 23-25 May 2023, RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus, Penang
This collaborative workshop held in Malaysia bought to you by by both Cochrane Malaysia and Cochrane Indonesia will be on Developing a Protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review. It is for individuals that are in the process of or are considering authoring a Cochrane systematic review. It is most suited to authors who already have a registered title, but authors who have not yet identified a title will also benefit from the course and will be given assistance to develop a title. More information here.
Risk of Bias 2 Workshop Cochrane Malaysia and Cochrane Indonesia
Date: 26 May 2023, RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus, Penang
This workshop is for Cochrane authors and others embarking on systematic reviews, who might like to know more about this new tool since many systematic reviews have been published using this tool. Trainers will be from both Malaysia and Indonesia. More information here.
GRADE zur Bewertung der Vertrauenswürdigkeit der Evidenz
GRADE to assess the trustworthiness of the evidence – this event will be in German
Date: 31 May, Krems, Austria
In this workshop, participants will learn how to assess the trustworthiness of evidence from systematic reviews using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) method. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to prioritize endpoints for GRADE assessment, how to incorporate different aspects into the assessment of evidence, and how to create evidence profiles and "Summary of Findings" tables in the associated software (GRADE GDTpro). This workshop will not address how to use GRADE to develop recommendations for guidelines. More information here.
TOT in (Cochrane) systematic review methods to Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) trainers.
Date: May 2023 Nairobi, Kenya
The aim is to advocate for inclusion of systematic review methodology in the curriculum of medical training institutions for wider adoption/implementation to ease student’s projects management and also for the trainer’s academic advancement.
June
Evidence and Gap Maps
Date: 15 June 2023 10:00 – 4:30 IST (check the event in your time zone)
The aim of the workshop is to teach people how to generate Evidence Gap Maps Further information/registration: Further information and registration detail will be provided on ICMR website event calendar
Synthesis Without Meta-analysis (SWiM) reporting guidelines
Date: 22 June, 13:00 – 14:00 (UTC+1), (check the event in your time zone)
This webinar will present the Synthesis Without Meta-analysis (SWiM) reporting guideline which aims to help transparent reporting of synthesis of intervention effects sizes when the synthesis does not use meta-analysis. The guidance was funded by the Cochrane Strategic Methods Fund and provides nine reporting items to promote transparent reporting of how studies are grouped, synthesis methods used, how data are presented, and summary of the synthesis findings. More information and register here.
Evidenzbasierte Pflegepraxis – Einführungskurs
Evidence-based nursing practise – introductory course – this event will be in German
Date: 26-29 June, Krems, Austria
In this workshop, participants will learn the method of evidence-based nursing practice: translating a problem from practice into a good research question, systematically searching for studies and reviews on the internet and in specialised databases, critically assessing selected research papers, as well as interpreting the study results and transferring them back into practice. In a sequence of theoretical lectures and practical exercises, the participants learn how to deal with research literature in order to use scientific findings in everyday nursing care and thus expand their professional decision-making competence. More information here.
Nottingham Systematic Review Course
Date: 27-30 June
The course is aimed at enabling participants to become proficient in developing and undertaking a Cochrane-style systematic review of interventions. As this is an introductory course, no previous knowledge of systematic reviewing is required. The course utilises a combination of lectures, small group discussions, workshops, library-based interactive tutorials, with hands on practical work at computer stations using RevMan and Endnote software. Review Manager (RevMan) is the software used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews. Find out more information and book here. The course venue is Monica Partridge Building, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
July
Systematic Review standard author training
Date: 7, 14, 21 July 09:00-16:30 EST (check the event in your time zone)
More information and registration, email olivia.maurer@tufts.edu
August
How to make your researcher more visible using audio-visual materials and social media
Date: 11 August 2023
This session will be presented by Dr. Soumitra Datta, sign up here
International Preventing Overdiagnosis conference
Date: 14 - 16 August, Hotel Scandic, Copenhagen, Denmark
More information. Call for Abstracts and Registration COMING SOON
September
Cochrane Colloquium 2023: Forward together for trusted evidence
Date: 4-6 September 2023 Central London, UK
This will be the first time the Cochrane community has come together since 2018 and in recognition of this, it is being designed to celebrate the diverse, global and cohesive nature of the collaboration that is Cochrane. Find out more at the Colloquium website
Systematische Literaturrecherche
Systematic literature search basic and advanced – this event will be in German
Date: 11-12 September, blended learning + Krems, Austria
This workshop combines the contents of the workshop “Introduction to Systematic Literature Search” with an advanced course. The first part will cover the prerequisites and basics of systematic database searching: structuring questions, using Boolean operators, truncation, phrase searching and keywords, using the block building approach for systematic searches in PubMed. The advanced course will deal in-depth with aspects of literature searches as the basis of systematic reviews: Database selection and transfer of search strategies to other databases, searching in study registers, documentation and quality assurance of systematic searches. More information here.
Guideline Development Methodology
Date: 15 September 2023 10:00 – 4:30 IST (check the event in your time zone)
The aim of the workshop to sensitize stakeholders about guideline development. Further information/registration: Further information and registration detail will be provided on ICMR website event calendar
Kritische Bewertung medizinischer Studien
Critical evaluation of medical studies – this event will be in German
Date: 26-27 September, Krems, Austria
In this workshop, participants will learn how to critically evaluate different types of studies. At the beginning, the central sources of error in medical studies (confounding, bias, random errors) and the interpretation of the most important key figures will be discussed. Special focus is on randomised controlled trials, observational studies, diagnostic studies and systematic reviews. In a sequence of theoretical lectures on methodological basics and of practical exercises using examples from the medical literature, participants will learn how to proceed in the critical evaluation of studies in order to detect bias and manipulative presentation of results. More information here.
Kritische Bewertung von randomisiert kontrollierten Studien – online
Critical evaluation of RCTs – this event will be in German
Date: 9 October, online
The aim of this workshop is twofold: firstly, to impart the theoretical and methodical background that is necessary for the critical evaluation of clinical studies, and secondly, to give workshop participants practical experience in the critical evaluation of RCTs. This workshop is open to all who read published medical studies and wanted to assess their credibility and validity. More information here.
October
Systematic Review standard author training
Date: 6, 13, 20 October 09:00-16:30 EST (check the event in your time zone)
More information and registration, email olivia.maurer@tufts.edu
JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program
Date: October 3 - 6 2023 and Jan 9-12, 2024, 09:00-16:00 in person event
The Program enables participants to learn how to conduct robust systematic reviews of different evidence types in order to provide the strongest possible evidence to inform decision making or clinical guidelines in health care. More information and registration here
Bayesianische Metaanalysen – Online
Bayesian meta-analyses – this event will be in English
Date: 18 October, online
In this workshop, participants will learn the main differences between Bayesian and frequentist statistics. They will learn by examples why the use of Bayesian experience is becoming more and more popular and what advantages these methods have in the interpretation of statistical results. In addition, Bayesian approaches to common problems associated with meta-analyses will be discussed, as well as common criticisms of Bayesian statistics. More information here.
Workshop on Developing a Protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review
Date: 24-26 October 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This workshop on Developing a Protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review is for individuals that are in the process of or are considering authoring a Cochrane systematic review. It is most suited to authors who already have a registered title, but authors who have not yet identified a title will also benefit from the course and will be given assistance to develop a title. More information and registration here.
EBHC International Conference 2023
Date: 25-28 October 2023 In person in Sicily and online
internationally renowned EBHC champions will trace the way forward through the ecosystem of evidence, dozens of researchers will present the findings from their studies, and their experience teaching and disseminating EBHC. Register here and submit your abstract here
Risk of Bias 2
Date: 27 October 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This workshop is for Cochrane authors and others embarking on systematic reviews, who might like to know more about this new tool since many systematic reviews have been published using this tool. More information and registration here.
November
Introduction to Cochrane Methodology
Date: 20-24 November 2023
Cochrane Sweden is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our 1-week course on Cochrane Methodology. The course is aimed to be conducted at campus in Lund from Monday to Thursday and online over Zoom for Friday. More information can be found here.
Medizinische Statistik für Nicht-StatistikerInnen
Medical statistics for non-statisticians – basic – this event will be in German
Date: 29-30 November, Krems, Austria
In this workshop, we will look at statistical methods, medical research and health. Precisely because medical progress is mainly defined by statistical results in studies, it is of central importance to understanding this methodology. The workshop aims to familiarise participants with the basics of statistical planning and analysis and to give them a feeling for which methods are suitable for which questions and data. Furthermore, they are shown where the real information is hidden in scientific publications or how to find it. More information here.
2024
January
JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program
Date: 9am-4pm October 3-6 2023 and Jan 9-12, 2024, in person event
The Program enables participants to learn how to conduct robust systematic reviews of different evidence types in order to provide the strongest possible evidence to inform decision making or clinical guidelines in health care. More information and registration here