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Issue 12 | April 2022 (next issue June 2022)

ECP Network News and Announcements

PICO summaries are now available in Cochrane Reviews: Changes have been introduced to Cochrane Reviews to display PICO terms below the Abstract. This gives an at-a-glance summary of Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome for the Review as annotated by Cochrane Community experts. With one click on a PICO term, users can see search results for Reviews with the same included PICOs. There is also prominent Help material giving clear guidance on using PICOs, linking to the relevant section of the Cochrane Handbook. On the Review Information pages, MeSH and PICOs are grouped together for easy discoverability.

In celebration of International Women's Day, 8th March 2022, members of the Cochrane Early Career Professionals Network collaborated with Cochrane US on a speed networking event for women in STEM. Members of the ECP shared their own personal stories of the value of mentoring, role modelling and networking before the group were given the opportunity to connect with others in three minute, quick fire slots.

The event was a resounding success with many new connections made by all. ECP member Dolly Sud said "really great event - proud to have taken part alongside such wonderful amazing women," with Elpida Vounzoulaki adding "the IWD event was really nice, so many inspiring women attending!" Anna Harvey said "as my first event as part of the ECP, I was made to feel really welcomed and comfortable to add my own ideas to the event."

We look forward to further networking and mentoring events run by the ECP and we would encourage female early career professionals to get involved with Cochrane.

News from our members

Dolly Sud (Dr, PhD), Senior Mental Health Pharmacist, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aston University

Dr. Dolly Sud has secured funding from Aston University to disseminate findings from Medicines Optimisation in Severe Mental Illness research. The focus of this work will be real world impact and include direct engagement with clinicians, patients, informal carers, mental health charities and undergraduates of relevant healthcare disciplines. This funding has been secured in partnership with Dr Ian Maidment, Reader in Clinical Pharmacy, Aston University and will fund Dolly for one day a week for 6 months to do this work. Keep an eye out on her Twitter for announcement of activities.

Have you recently published a paper, presented at a conference, written a blog, or done something amazing that you want to share? Send us a brief description, your Twitter handle, and a headshot (if you wish) to ecp@ochrane.org to be featured in our upcoming newsletter.

Trainings and events

Our second English Journal Club of 2022 will take place on Thursday 28^th April at 6pm GMT! Dr. Chiara Arienti will be leading a discussion on ‘Methodology issues of rehabilitation research: ‘Specific issues’ of rehabilitation’ and Dr. Pierre Côté will discuss ‘The methodology used for the production of the guideline on Low Back Pain treatment.’ RSVP your spot here.

Upcoming opportunities

📢 ECPN Journal Club: Join the ECP Network for the upcoming Journal Club on Thursday 28^th April at 6pm GMT! Joel Pollet will be moderating 2 presentations on rehabilitation and physiotherapy by Dr. Chiara Arienti and Dr. Pierre Côté. Come along for a great opportunity to learn and network. RSVP your spot here.

📢 Travel grants are available to attend the in-person conference 'Assessing Bias in Randomized and Non-Randomized Studies' at University of Colorado Med School in Denver! SIX recipients will be selected to receive free registration and $600 for travel & per diem. Apply now!

📢 Call for feedback on SynQ: Synthesis Questions reporting checklist and guide: Researchers at Cochrane Australia have developed a new guide for defining the synthesis questions to be addressed in systematic reviews of interventions. They welcome authors and editors of systematic reviews to either provide general feedback or pilot the checklist. Full details, links to the guide and how to submit feedback available via Task Exchange here. Feedback deadline 31 May 2022.

📢 Host a session at future Cochrane Connects meetings: This is your opportunity to host a virtual session with the Cochrane Community - a keynote plenary session, breakout roundtable discussions; the choice is yours! Check out the details here.

Training resources

📢 Cochrane International Women's Day Events: Recordings Available here. Congratulations to Abbey Morris, Lina Cellante, and Shauna Lee Lange winning the Graphics Challenge!

📢 Evidence-based healthcare resources: Are you still in University? Teaching classes about evidence-based healthcare? Cochrane UK has rounded up some valuable resources for you. Check them out here.

📢 Bursting out of our bubble: using creative techniques to communicate within the systematic review process and beyond. Blogshots, photo guidance, and dissemination checklist mentioned in this article!

📢 International Women's Day: Winning designs from the International Women's Day #SciArt challenge added to Cochrane Store. Learn more about the meaning behind the two selected designs and who the artists are - and check out the Cochrane Store!

📢 Plain Language Summaries: Updated template and guidance for writing Plain Language Summaries in Cochrane Reviews now available.

📢 Cochrane Convenes Report and Call to Action: Have you had a chance to read it yet? It's now available in 7 languages! Check it out here.

Learning Live is a series of monthly webinars open to everyone and an archive of previous webinars. Upcoming webinars:

- GRADE CERQual *QES webinar series* (25 April)
- A day with... Equity Methods Group *A day with... series* (April 27)

- The ROB-MEN tool to evaluate the risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis (May 5)

- Integrating qualitative evidence syntheses with intervention effect findings *QES webinar series* (May 16)

- A new approach to evaluating loop inconsistency in network meta-analysis (June 9).

Cochrane Starter Pack

TaskExchange - Use your skills to help authors complete reviews

Cochrane Crowd - Volunteer to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence

Online learning - Resources relevant to systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine

Interactive Learning (Cochrane account required) - how to conduct a systematic review

Evidence Essentials (free but Cochrane account required) - introduction to health evidence

Learning events - find information about upcoming training (in-person and online)

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