Organized by: Department of Community Medicine & Global Journal of Health Sciences & Research
"4th systematic Review & Meta Analysis Hands - on - Taining Workshop"
Nature of the Program: Offline
Date: 05.11.24 & 12.11.24 to 14.11.24
Time: 9:00 AM to 4.00 PM
Venue: Reading hall, First floor, College block, SMVMCH
Participants
- Attendees: 18 faculties from various departments of SMVMCH
Organizing Team
- Community Medicine
- Global Journal of Health Sciences & Research
Summary:
The Department of Community Medicine, in collaboration with the Global Journal of Health and Scientific Research of SMVMCH, organized a four-day workshop on Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (SRMA). The workshop featured Dr. Jennifer Florence Mary, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, MGMC&RI; Dr. Reenaa Mohan, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SMVMCH; Dr. Preethi T, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics; and Dr. Suja Xaviour, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, SMVMCH, as resource persons.
Faculty members from various disciplines, including Physiology, Biochemistry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine, Psychiatry, and Orthopedics, actively participated. The workshop covered critical topics such as title selection, formulating a search strategy using PICOT, screening articles with Rayyan software, data extraction, data analysis using RevMan software, and drafting SRMA articles.
Hands-on training was provided for searching articles on PubMed, Google Scholar, and Cochrane databases, screening articles via Rayyan, performing data analysis using RevMan and Jamovi. Assessing risk of bias with various checklists. Participants were divided into pairs and encouraged to draft SRMA articles by the end of the session. Open feedback were obtained.
The workshop was designed as an intensive, practical program aimed at enabling participants to prepare and submit SRMA manuscripts to indexed journals.
Global Journal of Health Sciences and Research
On behalf of our institution, We have launched our new In-house Journal named Global Journal of Health Sciences and Research in association with scientific scholar on 20th February 2023, 9.30 am at the basement auditoriam. Dr. Devinder Mohan Thappa ( Dean Research , JIMPER) has kindly consented to be the chief guest of the event and released our Journal. He also gave a useful speech for the improvement of our Journal. Our Chairman Shri. M. Dhanasekaran, and Secretary Dr. Narayanasamy Kesavan, presided over the celebration and the event was felicitated by Dr. D. Rajagovindan ( Director), Dr. R. N. Kagne ( Dean), Dr. K. Karthikeyan ( Dean Academic), Dr. G. Kalaiselvan ( Dean Research), Dr. M. Pragash ( Medical Superintendent) and Dr. P. Sanjay ( Editor in Chief – GJHSR). The program started with an invocation and lighting the Kuthuvilakku by the dignitaries. Welcome address was given by our associate editor, Dr. Deepika Velusamy followed by brief account about the Journey of Our Journal by our Editor in Chief, Dr. P. Sanjay. Our Dean Academic K. Karthikeyan introduced our chief guest and our chief guest addressed the gathering. Then our new Journal was released by the dignitaries. Vote of Thanks was given by our associate editor, Dr. P. Vijayasankar. The program concluded successfully with our National Anthem.
