Geographical Group Reporting Submission

Group Cochrane Malaysia

Name May Loong Tan

Activity name / title Intervarsity Competition "Communicating Evidence to Empower Informed Decision-Making” and Systematic review workshop for students

Which function does this relate to?

Tier one Promote Cochrane and its work

Tier two Host local events

Tier three Undertake local knowledge translation activities

Tier four Support student engagement

Evidence production N/A

Date

Start date 26-08-2024

Proposed end date 26-09-2024

on-going No

Was this activity in collaboration with other organization(s) or partner(s)? If so which? Yes

Name of the organization(s) or partner(s) Wiley

Person to contact if any queries about this activity Nila Pillai
cochrane@rumc.edu.my

Type of activity Dissemination / Knowledge Translation, Promote Cochrane or the Cochrane geographic group(s) & gain visibility

Please give additional activity details (i.e., reach, impact, duration, return on investment) This competition involves students to creatively produce a video that will showcase how healthcare professionals can use a Cochrane plain language summary in a clinical setting to help patients make evidence based informed decisions about their healthcare plans.

This is a team competition and is open to all institutions of higher learning in Malaysia with undergraduate level health-science related programmes (medicine, pharmacy, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, dietetics etc).
The competition will culminate in a workshop Systematic Reviews Made Easy on 26 September 2024 (9am-12.30pm) at Avante Hotel, Bandar Utama, Selangor.

A total of 12 teams of 3 from 6 universities participated in the competition and workshop.

Link and documents

Link Webpage

By checking this box, my center consents to the use of these photos for Cochrane internal and external purposes, such as websites, reports, social media, etc. Yes