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Introduction to Conducting Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
Provider: Faculty of Health And Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3925-27-00-00	There are 16 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 07/01/2027

Place	Panum Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København N
Date and time	09.02.2027, at: 09:15 - 12.02.2027, at: 15:30
Regular seats	16
Course fee	6,840.00 kr.
Lecturers	Thordis Thomsen
ECTS credits	2.50

Contact person	Karin Frydenlund Jespersen E-mail address: karin.frydenlund.jespersen@regionh.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the different steps in conducting a qualitative evidence synthesis 2. Choose between different approaches to synthesizing qualitative evidence and discuss the usefulness of each approach in relation to the review question 3. Critically appraise included original studies uding the CAMELOT (CochrAne qualitative Methodological LimitatiOns Tool) 4. Understand the application of GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) and CONQual (Confidence in Qualitative Synthesis) criteria 5. Critically appraise qualitative evidence syntheses Content The course will follow the steps of conducting a systematic review of qualitative evidence, including the formulation of a review question(s), literature searching, quality assessment of studies for inclusion using CAMELOT, synthesising data and writing up and presenting the product of the synthesis. Participants will be provided with practical examples of key stages in the review process. Participants will be presented with different approaches to synthesizing qualitative data (meta-aggregation, thematic synthesis, meta-ethnography) and hands-on exercises in applying the GRADE-CERqual/CONQual approaches to assess the degree of confidence to place in review findings. Participants PhD students and other postgraduates planning to conduct qualitative evidence synthesis. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Public Health and Epidemiology All graduate programmes Language English if non-Danish participants attend. Form The course will include lectures, discussion in plenary and groups, and exercises. In the exercises, students will have the opportunity to synthesize data using different strategies and work with CAMELOT, and apply the GRADE-CERqual/CONQual criteria through practical exercises. Course director Thordis Thomsen, clinical professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, thordis.thomsen@regionh.dk Susanne Vahr Lauridsen, associate professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, Teachers Merete Bjerrum, Professor, Centre for Clinical Guidelines, University of Aalborg, Denmark Susanne Vahr Lauridsen, Associate professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences Thordis Thomsen, Clinical professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences Kate Flemming, Professor, Head of Department, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK Heather Munthe-Kaas, Researcher at Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, University of Oslo, Norway Dates 9-12 februar 2027 Course location Mærsk tower, room to be confirmed Registration Please register before 7.th of January 2027 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

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