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  • What is a journal?
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• Where to search?
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• Evaluating, appraising, critiquing, peer review
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• Evidence Based Medicine & Practice
  EBM starts with a question: Asking and answering a question
  
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  • Types of studies
    
    
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    Watch these videos
    
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• Types of reviews
• Literature reviews
• Scoping reviews
• Doing a systematic review
  • What is a systematic review?
  • Different from a literature review?
    Are you really doing a systematic review?
    
  • The search
    Websites covering the whole systematic review process
    
  • Managing results; screening tools
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    Websites covering the whole systematic review process
    
• Referencing
  • Why & when to reference
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• What about the writing?
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• Data help & management
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• Getting published
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• Research impact & metrics
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