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Issue 13 | June 2022 (next issue August 2022)

ECP Network News and Announcements

Welcoming a New ECPN Steering Group Member!

On behalf of the Cochrane Early Career Professionals' community, we would like to welcome our new steering group member: Daniel González Padilla.

Daniel is a medical doctor who has joined the ECPN steering group as the new newsletter coordinator. He graduated from the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and completed his residency in Urology at the Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid. He currently works at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid and is interested in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and critical reading. Daniel's current research work focuses on bladder and prostate cancer, analysis of the state of EBM training among urology residents, and the adherence to the GRADE methodology in European urology guidelines. He has taught EBM in Mexico, has collaborated on Cochrane systematic reviews, and is the co-founder of an online Journal Club in urology (available on Twitter via the hashtag #UrologyJournalClub).

Congratulations, Daniel! We are very delighted to have you on board, and we are very pleased to be joined by new members who always bring new ideas and energy to this community.

Journal Club 2: Rehabilitation Research Methodology

Our second English Journal Club of 2022 was held on Thursday 28^th April 2022 and was focused on physiotherapy related topics. We hosted two speakers. The first speaker was Dr. Chiara Arienti, the coordinator of Cochrane Rehabilitation, who spoke on the methodological issues of rehabilitation research. The second speaker was Prof. Pierre Côté, professor of the Ontario Tech University, who made ‘Reflections on the Development and Quality of Clinical Practice Guidelines for LBP’. The Journal club was an interesting discussion over the problem of the rehabilitation research world, and raised interesting issues.

The video of the event is available on YouTube at the following link. For any information or to have access to the presented material we invite you to write to our steering group member, Joel Pollet, who was also the moderator.

News from our members

Elpida Vounzoulaki, Epidemiologist at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, University of Leicester

Cochrane ECP Steering Group member Elpida Vounzoulaki was invited at BCC Radio Leicester. Elpida chatted with Summaya Mughal about her most recent research on glucose screening attendance and the reasons behind it in women with a history of gestational diabetes and found that less than one in four women with a history of gestational diabetes are screened annually for type 2 diabetes, as recommended by the guidelines. Check out her research paper and the press release for further information.

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

Upcoming opportunities

📢 Graduate research assistant: Do you have experience with rapid or systematic reviews? Work remotely with Cochrane Austria and Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group (RRMG) as a graduate research assistant; flexible location, 20 hrs/week until the end of 2022. Apply here by 3 July.

📢 Knowledge translation awards: Fellow university students across the world, here comes a chance to showcase your creativity and talent in knowledge translation! Find out more about the awards here. This opportunity is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Apply by 31 July.

📢 Internal communications specialists, come work with the Cochrane community!

Remote work and you can be located anywhere. Apply by 5 July 2023. Find out more here.

📢 Cochrane Task Exchange: Have late-stage stomach cancer? Your feedback can help shape the presentation of research to make sure it is accessible, relevant, & helpful to patients & carers with healthcare decision making. Volunteer on Cochrane Task Exchange.

📢 Cochrane Task Exchange: Can you help Cochrane Eyes? They need your clinical expertise to make sure a review of the evidence is easy for you to understand and can help with decision making. Volunteer on Cochrane Task Exchange.

📢 Cochrane Task Exchange: Are you or a loved one taking bismuth for a condition such as H. pylori? Your input is needed on a Cochrane Gut review looking at the safety of bismuth. Volunteer on Cochrane Task Exchange.

📢 Cochrane's Governing Board: Looking for 2 new appointed members with experience & expertise in one or more of the following areas: digital product development; fundraising & business development; publishing & open access. Apply here by 15 July.

📢 RehabWeek 2022: Don’t miss Cochrane Rehabilitation’s interesting workshop during the RehabWeek 2022! From July 25–29 the beautiful city of Rotterdam will host the next RehabWeek! This is a biennial week-long event that brings together different conferences. Find out more here.

Training resources

📢 My Cochrane Story: Read the latest #MyCochraneStory from Cheng Hsien Hung. He went from learning about Cochrane systematic reviews in 2017 to working with Cochrane Taiwan & applying what he learned in clinical practice.

📢 World EBHC Day spotlights the global impact of EBHC on research, policy, practice & health outcomes. The 2022 theme is ‘Partnerships for Purpose’ and Cochrane is an official partner. Find out how you or your org can participate here.

📢 Motor neuron disease: making choices about managing symptoms. June is Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Awareness Month. Sarah Chapman revisits her Cochrane UK blog about one man’s experience of MND & evidence from The Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group on treatments to help manage symptoms.

📢 Network meta-analysis: Calling all statisticians with an interest in network meta-analysis. Free training videos from the Cochrane Learning Live webinar series on evaluating loop inconsistency in network meta-analysis. Watch here.

📢 What is an infodemic and how can we prevent it? View the Lifeology App and Cochrane free course with art from Jordan Collver that provides tips to help you combat misinformation here.

📢 GRADE guidance: Updated GRADE guidance for imprecision rating using a minimally contextualized approach. A free webinar from the Cochrane Learning Live series, open to everyone here.

📢 The TRANSFER Approach for assessing the transferability of systematic review findings - a webinar recording from the Cochrane Learning Live archive. Videos freely available here.

📢 Community-based interventions for improving mental health in refugee children and adolescents in high-income countries. Globally 281 million people are international migrants and 84 million are forcibly displaced (48 million are internally displaced, 26.6 million are refugees, and 4.4 million are asylum seekers). Read more here.

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

- Interpreting results of network meta-analyses: the GRADE minimally contextualized approach (5 July)

- Writing a review protocol - good practice and common errors (1 September)

- Updated GRADE guidance for imprecision rating using a minimally contextualized approach (13 September)

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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