Course detail

Welcome to Conducting scoping reviews

Program: Health Care, Health Promotion and Organizations

Description:

The objective of this three-day course is to provide the participants an understanding of why and how to develop a scoping review protocol and conduct a scoping review using the JBI methodology.

Scoping reviews provide an overview of the existing literature within a defined topic of interest. A scoping review can be used to map the key concepts that underpin a field of research, as well as to clarify working definitions, and/or the conceptual boundaries of a topic. The most common reasons for conducting a scoping review are to explore the breadth or extent of the literature, map and summarize the evidence, and inform future research.

The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a scoping review protocol and conducting a scoping review:

• JBI guidelines and template to developing a scoping review protocol and scoping review
• Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping reviews
• Focused question P (Population) C (Concept) C (Context)
• Search strategy
• Source of evidence selection
• Data extraction
• Analysis and presentation of results

The course includes presentations from lectures, group activities, either individually focusing on your own PhD-project or in small groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.

Literature:

Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.

Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard

Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen

ECTS: 2

Date: Physical attendance: 17, 18 March 2026

Online: 26 March 2026

Place: TBA

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 20

Deadline: 14 February 2026

Important information concerning PhD courses:

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course. We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk. When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.