PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Conducting Scoping Reviews 2025

PhD Programme: Health Care, Health Promotion and Organizations (HCHPO)

Description: 

The objective of this three-day course is to provide the participants an understanding of why and how to develop a scoping review protocol and conduct a scoping review using the JBI methodology.

Scoping reviews provide an overview of the existing literature within a defined topic of interest. A scoping review can be used to map the key concepts that underpin a field of research, as well as to clarify working definitions, and/or the conceptual boundaries of a topic. The most common reasons for conducting a scoping review are to explore the breadth or extent of the literature, map and summarize the evidence, and inform future research.

The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a scoping review protocol and conducting a scoping review:

• JBI guidelines and template to developing a scoping review protocol and scoping review
• Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping reviews
• Focused question P (Population) C (Concept) C (Context)
• Search strategy
• Source of evidence selection
• Data extraction
• Analysis and presentation of results

The course includes presentations from lectures, group activities, either individually focusing on your own PhD-project or in small groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.

Prerequisites: 

None

Form of evaluation:

Evaluation by a multiple-choice test

Key literature: 

Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.

Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard, mwn@dcm.aau.dk

Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen, britt.laugesen@rn

ECTS: 2.25

Time: 

11/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30

12/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30

21/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30 Online

Place: Aalborg University

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 20

Deadline: 18/02/2025