🤔What is Cochrane Students?
Cochrane is a world-renowned organisation dedicated to producing high-quality systematic reviews in healthcare. Cochrane Students provides opportunities for students and early-career researchers/doctors to get involved with this process! Learning about how evidence-based research is generated, developing critical research skills and contributing to real world-wide systematic reviews.
🙋How Do I Get Involved?
- Join Cochrane Students – Sign up through the Cochrane website to access lots of resources and research opportunities.
- Complete Online Learning Modules – Enhance your skills in systematic reviewing and learn about health evidence by taking part in interactive courses.
- Volunteer for Cochrane Engage – Work with researchers to contribute to Cochrane systematic reviews, start with the specially curated beginner tasks and go from there!
- Join Students 4 Best Evidence – Network with other like-minded students and even write your own evidence-based medicine blog.
- Share Cochrane Evidence on Social Media – Get your LinkedIn profile up and running and find other people in the industry by sharing evidence you find interesting!
- Link Cochrane Evidence to Wikipedia Articles in Healthcare – Help Wikipedia readers by providing Cochrane evidence for existing Wikipedia Articles.
- Engage with Cochrane Crowd – Help assess healthcare evidence online in your spare time.
- Attend Workshops and Events – Attend conferences and training sessions to learn lots and network with others.
💭Final Thoughts
Cochrane have lots of opportunities open to students and early-career researchers/doctors to help make getting into evidence-based medicine more accessible. If you’re interested in giving it a go, this is a fantastic place to start!
