This course enables you to understand the fundamentals of Systematic review and metaanalysis in such a way that it will not be forgotten.Each and every video had so much clarity with clear cut learning objectives that were met at the end of the lecture along with a summary.Just going through the stems and responses of the quizzes in itself was like another revision of the entire course.A good grip of fundamentals of meta analysis was a confidence booster.The assignments were thought provoking and the peer evaluation process was very liberating,On the whole a great course .

Amazing course, definitely learned a lot regarding systematic reviews. The only thing I found to be a bit challenging is that at some lectures they assume you have previous knowledge in stats, while for someone like me this is my first stats course. But don't worry, it doesn't interfere a lot without your overall understanding of systematic reviews.

Note: it focuses a lot more on systematic review that it does on meta-analysis, which kind of makes sense because meta-analysis is only an optional component of a systematic review, as you'll get to know in this course.

This course helped to provide a comprehensive understanding of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. Therefore, it helped me to feel more prepared to conduct a Systematic Review. I especially liked the references to Observational Studies, and that learners could move more or less at their own pace, with deadlines to help guide in completing the course in good time. I also liked the idea of having a community of persons learning about Systematic Reviews to engage with. Overall, I am very happy to have taken this course.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank COURSERA for my learnings about systematic review and meta analysis. Your course has provided me the basic knowledge on systematic review and meta analysis. The assignments the course provided have increased my confidence in this topic. I would like in the future to again enroll in advanced systematic review and meta analysis that will entail teaching me how to use the software in doing meta analysis and to engage in a collaborative work utilizing SRMA.

Considero que este curso es una excelente introducción a una temática interesante y compleja como lo son las revisiones sistemáticas y el meta análisis. Los docentes son de primer nivel, dando consejos prácticos al igual que explicando los fundamentos teóricos. Como se deduce de estas líneas, el inglés no es mi idioma nativo, sin embargo con el nivel básico-intermedio que poseo del mismo pude completar el curso sin mayores dificultades. Aconsejo no dejar de hacerlo sólo por la brecha idiomática.

Hi. I really enjoyed the course. This is a great introductory experience for me of systematic review and meta-analysis. In the future, maybe, I hope that the course or a separate course will have a section that walks the participant through an actual meta-analysis. Maybe, you can provide a screenshot of the actual literature search, how the quality of the study was measured, how the effect sizes were determined, etc. Overall, this is a great course.

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I am working to deliver Systematic literature reviews (SLR), and also familiar with Meta-analysis (MA). This was a refresher course for me. I got to know many things in details through this course, which I used to do without giving further thought. Overall, this is a great course for someone looking forward to learn the basics of SLR and MA.

The course was well designed and very comprehensive in terms of content structure and follow. On top of this, the course instructors are well acquainted about the subject matter, I really enjoyed learning of this profound important course and I recommend this course to others, truly, they will get a lot of benefit from by attending this course.

Thanks for giving this opportunity.

Excellent course. I learnt a lot from the course. As the sessions were audio-video sessions with slides and the script in print also, one had the option of understanding the sessions as per what was suitable and it was not boring. I would have liked more practical work with correct answers after the learner had attempted. All in all, it was a very comprehensive introductory course

I never had prior exposure to online courses, this is my first experience and I am very happy to complete the course successfully. It was a very good forum and an excellent opportunity to learn about systematic reviews and meta-analysis from one among the world class university. I express my sincere thanks to Coursera and Johns Hopkins University for providing an excellent course.

A very good one for the beginners, particularly those who have a little background or not at all. The materials provided online were great and not difficult to access from anywhere. Really impressive after finish this course and will looking forward to use and pursue more knowledge in this field as it really benefit to my works.

Thank you so much.

Best regards to all lecturers.

It is a one of the detail courses for systematic review and meta-analysis. It clearly describes all the steps with associated assignments. What I found they can work on the part of risk assessment part more and add some more examples and also in meta analysis one. That would be best to make it more comprehensive. Otherwise it is a good and interesting course to carry on.

To whom it may concern,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for sending my certificate of conclusion. The course was very interesting and fulfilling.

However, due to Brazilian curriculum regulations, I need a certificate with the total course load in hours. Would that be possible?

I've already commended your course to fellow colleagues.

Best regards,

Nataly Lopes Viana

This course is simply excellent! It enables the student to better judge the quality of reviews, and clinical studies in general, as well as gives actionable paths to learn how to perform Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis.

After it, one also gets clear understanding of the importance and impact Systematic Reviews can have on health policies and clinical practice.

I think that this course is a hidden diamond for every medical and public health student who respects himself and wants to be to the edge of scientists' community. The fact that the course is free - and from a top range University - gives the opportunity in all the less fortunate students to attend the course. Congratulations to john Hopkins University for its act.

Very enjoyable and informative course! All content was very well explained by the lecturers, with useful examples. I would give a 4.5 star rating, only for the reason that the final peer assessment exercise didn't really feel like it captured the entirety of the course and was quite difficult to mark. Otherwise, it's been a real pleasure and hugely insightful!

I have enjoyed systematic review more than meta analysis. However, new information learned for meta-analysis. I am ready to commence my phase 1 of my study and supervise all the students will be writing systematic review. I will be a mentor for my colleagues and hoping to be the university reviewer.

Thank you so much for the opportunity!! God bless!!

It was a great way to learn the basics about the systematic review and it provides the steps and the examples to be able to join a research group and start doing them. I really enjoyed the assignments because it helps us put the knowledge into practice, more of these assignments would be even more helpful for future courses. Thank you very much.

Very well organized, chock full of both theoretical content and details regarding application. Just the right amount of challenging! Would have been nice to have had more exercises that force you to use the information learned in actually choosing/not choosing studies, or writing about the literature systematically. Overall, highly recommend.

The teachers were very good, the slides were very crisp and understanding became easier. The course is a must for all researchers. I look forward to going through the slides and reference material again son, for revision and future use. Thank you again,. Much gratitude for the learning. Best wishes to everyone for a safe and healthy life.

Excellent course with valuable and useful tips to do an actual review. The content is a mix of very-basic review priciples which every medical student should know and more advancedMinor annoyance was that the audio recording was obviously from some on-site course and references to other assignments and courses have not been cut-out.

Systematic review and meta analysis course is a good start for clinicians, for orientation, for opinion, to form your idea. It is cheap, the only obstacle is the time you can spend on searching, reading than writing. You can and you have to work in a group, being more effective. I hope the next step will be network analysis course.

I have always felt Systematic Review and meta-analysis to be such a complex topic to understand. this course has simplified it so well. Though i still need to put in a lot of effort to understand meta-analysis, I found this course to be highly useful. I will suggest others, whoever are interested, to take up this course. Thanks

Great lectures with extremely knowledgeable professors. I really appreciated the structure of each lesson, and the flow of the course as a whole. It was quite helpful.

It was a wise move to include directions to in-depth reference materials, as finding the standards and guidelines for a technique can be daunting to newcomers.

The course was well structured and well presented.

I loved the idea that after sending my review of an article,

I had to review other participants thoughts about the article

This technique of teaching helped me to remember the different

factors important for systematic review / metaanalysis

Thank you very much for a job well done.