Study skills

How to critically appraise healthcare research

Key Information:

Date and time: Thu 30 November 2023
12:00 - 13:00
Location: Online: Microsoft Teams
Contact: UWE Bristol Library Contact the library
Cost: Free
Attendance: Booking required

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This event has now passed.

Description

This workshop introduces the basics of critically appraising healthcare research. It takes a practical look at how to evaluate evidence and provides a toolkit of resources that you can apply throughout your studies

There is also a How to critically appraise healthcare research workbook with similar activities and content to the live workshop.

Workshop objectives

To feel more confident about:

identifying common research study designs within healthcare
analysing different types of research evidence to answer a specific question
applying the basic principles of critical appraisal to the evidence you find.

How to attend

If you are interested in attending this on-campus event, please register via InfoHub.

This workshop will take place online in Microsoft Teams – guidance on using Microsoft Teams is available. The workshop will have interactive elements and we recommend that if possible you use a laptop or PC. You may wish to use an additional mobile device or another tab in your browser for the interactive elements.

The room will be open from 10 minutes before the session start time.

The session materials are on the Study Skills site. Please click on the workshop title in the list.