Location- University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Course dates-
3 February 2003
5 February 2003
7 February 2003
10 February 2003
12 February 2003
Course tutor-
The module will be taught by Dr Mike Clarke, who has 13 years experience of
systematic reviewing and randomised trials. He works on systematic reviews
as varied as the Breast Cancer overview (in which individual patient data
are collected from all trials of the treatment of operable cancer),
neurosurgery compared with an endovascular treatment of stroke, strategies
to increase the response rate to mailed surveys and research into
publication bias.
Course Fees
Should you want to take individual modules of the MSc as stand alone
courses, the fees are as follows:
 £600 for attending the module but not undertaking the assignment.
 £900 for attending the module AND undertaking the assignment.
If you wish to register for this course, please download, print, complete
and return the registration form which can be found at:
http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/health/htmlfiles/master/msc/mscfr.htm
For more information please contact
 Ms Chris Bamford (Course Administrator): 01865-286941;
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 Dr Mike Clarke (co-ordinating tutor): 01865-516300;
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Other information-
In recent years, the bringing together of evidence from randomised trials
into systematic reviews has become increasingly common, not least because
of the formation of the Cochrane Collaboration with its aim to prepare,
maintain and promote the accessibility of reviews in all areas of health
care. Systematic reviews are also of increasing importance when considering
research using other study designs. In fact, they are becoming a vital part
of not only the process of summarising existing research but also of the
process of planning future research. Ethics committees, research founders
and health care policy makes such as the Department of Health are now
requiring that systematic reviews be done in advance of new research. This
module will take the participants through the process of doing a systematic
review and will focus on the practicalities rather than the theory. It will
consider the practical aspects of, for example, question formulation, study
identification, appraisal of quality, data extraction and collection,
statistical synthesis and reporting. By the end of the module, the
participants should be able to undertake, with increased confidence and
ability, their own systematic review; be better able to interpret the
results of systematic reviews done by others and to have found answers to
any questions they might have about systematic reviews. The module will use
a small group, problem-based learning approach. It will take place on five
separate full days. Each participant will be encouraged to identify a topic
for a systematic review which they would like to discuss in detail during
the course.
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