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Systematic Review Summer Camp Scholarships
500$ summer camp is now free under a scholarship program, for just a limited number of selected talented applicants.

What’s the Catch?

Normally valued at $500, this comprehensive scientific review course is your gateway to mastering essential concepts, refining your skills, and advancing your understanding of the scientific realm. But here’s the twist – we believe in nurturing and empowering the brightest minds. That’s why we’re handpicking a limited number of exceptional applicants to grant them this course under a scholarship program.

Aim: This summer camp provides an introduction and deep illustration of systematic reviews, and targets medical students and clinicians who want to understand how to use and conduct a systematic review in their practice. It covers the basic concepts of a systematic review and a meta-analysis, how to critically read and appraise the quality of a systematic review, search strategies, interpret the results of a systematic review, and how to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis.
We will provide full scholarships for the 36 applicants who will be selected in this camp in this program.

The camp will focus on providing theoretical sessions and practical parts. The total number of participants will be divided into 6 groups, each group will have 8 and will work on a systemic research project step by step alongside the theoretical sessions. Following each theoretical session, a practical step/task will be asked so the group has to work on it to achieve the required progress in the project. Then a seminar session will be held within the next 2 weeks to follow up on the practical part and handle any related inquiries. The seminar is different from the theoretical session.

Practical part:
The applicants will be divided into 6 groups. They will work step by step alongside the theoretical part. By the end of the programs, the 6 groups will be able to publish the systemic review programs they worked on through the camp period. Following-up and monitoring will be done in each seminar.

A leader for each group will be selected based on the research, publication, and leadership experiences. An authorship agreement will be made at the first. It will demonstrate the roles of every team member. Commitment is so important and required.

Selection criteria:
– Motivation letter
– Systemic review projects ideas
– Education level: medical year 4 and above, intern doctors, Juniors.
– Attending the open lecture is critical to be accepted into the program.
– Past experience is preferred
– Publication experience

Duration: Expected duration 3-6 months

Required commitment time: 2 days per week is the commitment,

The number of sessions: 16, 8 are theoretical sessions and 8 are seminars.

Frequency: 1 session every 2 weeks and 1 seminar every 2 weeks.
Timeline:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGI4KRL2XGkwN49QrKs1xqzt_gmXih_h/view?usp=sharing

Note; Attending the introduction session is a criterion to be accepted in the camp. For the introduction session, register from here:
https://mdguidance.com/systematic-review-training-camp-introduction-session

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1. Describe the main steps in conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis.
2. Construct an answerable well-defined question using PICO framework
3. Identify the process of screening studies and extracting data from studies.
4. Assess the risk of bias in included studies using appropriate tools.
5. Describe and interpret the results of meta-analyses.
6. An opportunity to be involved in a ‘systematic review working group’ supervised by Dr Loai Albarqouni - to conduct a high-quality systematic review and meta-analysis. In addition to having an opportunity to be part of international research teams.
7. Work on practical research programs step by step alongside the theoretical parts.
8. To understand the need for systematic (rather than unsystematic) reviews.
9. To understand the advantages and dangers of meta-analysis.
10. To be able to critically appraise a systematic review.
11. To be able to interpret the different types of plots and statistical outputs of meta-analyses.

Course Content

How to read and interpret a systematic review and meta-analysis
Be able to: Understand the role of systematic reviews in evidence-based healthcare, and Critically appraise and interpret a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Formulating a research question
Be able to: Convert your clinical scenario into an answerable clinical question using PICOS framework.

Selection of studies
Be able to: Identify eligibility criteria for literature that will identify studies most relevant to address the review question, and understand the process of title and abstract screening as well as full text screening.

Risk of bias assessment
Be able to: Use common risk of bias assessment tools such as Cochrane Risk of Bias tool.

Data extraction
Be able to: Extract data from primary studies relevant to the review question.

Data synthesis
Be able to: Synthesize extracted data to form conclusions and answer the review question; and know how to conduct meta-analysis.

Writing up
Be able to: use reporting guidelines to adequately report the results of your review.

Timeline
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGI4KRL2XGkwN49QrKs1xqzt_gmXih_h/view?usp=sharing

Our Program speaker
Assistant Professor Loai Albarqouni MD, MSc, PhD, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow. Dr Loai Albarqouni is an Assistant Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Australia. Dr albarqouni leads the teaching of evidence-based medicine and evidence synthesis in the medical program and postgraduate training at the institute. Dr Albarqouni has an exception track record and extensive experience in health research and clinical epidemiology - with>60 peer-reviewed publications (~55 in the last 5 years); >70% as leading or senior author in major international journals Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Int Med, and MJA. Dr Albarqouni is on the editorial board of major international journals BMC Medicine, BMC Primary Care, and PLoS Global Public Health. His research expertise includes evidence synthesis, evidence-based practice, primary healthcare, global health, and low value healthcare (overdiagnosis and overtreatment). He is consultant in Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology. Twitter: @LoaiAlbarqouni.

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Systematic Review Summer Camp Scholarships, Register from here in addition to your enrollment through our website (Enroll button).

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

How to read and interpret a systematic review and meta-analysis Be able to: Understand the role of systematic reviews in evidence-based healthcare, and Critically appraise and interpret a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Formulating a research question Be able to: Convert your clinical scenario into an answerable clinical question using PICOS framework.

Selection of studies Be able to: Identify eligibility criteria for literature that will identify studies most relevant to address the review question, and understand the process of title and abstract screening as well as full text screening.

Risk of bias assessment Be able to: Use common risk of bias assessment tools such as Cochrane Risk of Bias tool.

Data extraction Be able to: Extract data from primary studies relevant to the review question.

Data synthesis Be able to: Synthesize extracted data to form conclusions and answer the review question; and know how to conduct meta-analysis.

Writing up Be able to: use reporting guidelines to adequately report the results of your review.

Timeline https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGI4KRL2XGkwN49QrKs1xqzt_gmXih_h/view?usp=sharing

Deadline Will be added soon.