Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education

Housekeeping

• Before you begin, consider your schedule and goals
  • Do you have the time and motivation for self-directed learning and independence for this type of project? 
  • Consider if you have available and appropriate resources (time, personnel etc)
  • Is a systematic review or scoping review the right move for your research?
• Set up a Covidence account and invite your team members 
• Set up an account in OVID 
• Sign up for Endnote OR Zotero for citing and writing

Protocol

• A protocol is your project plan/roadmap
• Most journals want to see an open and discoverable protocol posted prior to publication of a full review
  • The protocol should be completed before abstract screening begins
• PROSPERO for systematic reviews
• PRISM for scoping reviews

Checklists

• The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement has checklists and extensions to provide projects with structure and transparency for reproducibility