Systematic Review / Evidence Synthesis Graduate Student Learning Facilitators

Megan Sapp-Nelson 

Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center

Anna Liss Jacobsen

Bioengineering and Engineering Medical Innovation Librarian

This LibGuide accompanies a 20 week 1 credit hour equivalent learning experience offered to Grainger Engineering Library Information Center pre-professional graduate students as part of the weekly reference meeting.  The goals for this experience are:

1. Participants learn to use a variety of information types, with specific focus on technical literature and grey literature.
2. Participants develop expertise in search strategy.
3. Participants learn to facilitate evidence synthesis consultations with researchers.
4. Participants think critically about and use databases as expert searchers.
5. Participants manage data retrieved in searches and teach others to do the same.
6.  Participants understand the value and processes of developing protocols.
7. Participants understand the concepts of precision and accuracy and create searches that reflect these concepts.
8. Participants understand steps of systematic reviews and evidence synthesis.
9. Participants understand and differentiate between types of systematic reviews and evidence synthesis.
10. Participants understand markers of evidence synthesis quality, including evidence-based practice.