Courses for health care professionals and researchers

Introduction to Evidence-Based Health Care in an African setting
A course for health care professionals that covers the basics of EBM/EBHC, searching skills and critical appraisal of articles.

Advanced Evidence Based Health Care, Methodology and Implementation in Africa
A course for health care professionals in the African setting that covers the more advanced issues of EBM/EBHC, searching skills, critical appraisal of articles and developing a systematic review.

Critical Appraisal Topic
A course for health care professionals who want to make Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) fact sheets for African hospitals and health care clinics.

Evidence-Based Diagnostics in Africa
A course on using scientific evidence in the diagnostic process. Includes interpretation of test results and diagnostic study design, specifically designed for African diagnostic decision-making.

Developing Systematic Reviews
A course on conducting systematic reviews for observational, intervention and diagnostic studies. Includes searching skills, quality assessment (risk of bias) and using Review Manager©.

Meta-analysis (intervention studies)
A continuation of the course on ‘Developing Systematic Reviews’, emphasizing the statistics behind meta-analysis in intervention studies.

Meta-analysis (cohort studies)
A continuation of the course on ‘Developing Systematic Reviews’, emphasizing the statistics behind meta-analysis for cohort studies.

Introduction to Evidence Based Literature Searching
A course for health care professionals who want to learn more about EBM literature searches and databases.

EBM Training of Trainers (ToT)
A course for those who have EBM experience and would like to become trainers.

For an overview of courses planned in the coming months, please refer to the calendar.

If you are interested in organizing a course at your own institution, please contact us.