Training & Education

Selected courses and workshops delivered by our team members in evidence synthesis, guideline development, GRADE, and related methodological areas.

ESCMID course on “Systematic reviews and meta-analyses for guidelines development in infectious diseases, infection control and clinical microbiology”

16–19 November 2026
Lisbon, Portugal

Course role: Faculty member and coordinator

Modules: Defining the scope of the guideline and phrasing the PICO questions; Literature searching; Rating the certainty of evidence – an overview of GRADE.

ESCMID Summer School 2026

28 June – 4 July 2026
Budapest, Hungary

Course role: Faculty member

Module: Which guidelines can we trust? — interactive workshop on critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines.

How do I do a systematic review and meta-analysis?

25–28 May 2026
Pavia, Italy

Course role: Faculty member

Module: Certainty of evidence assessment using GRADE.

ESCMID Course on “Systematic reviews and meta-analyses for guidelines development in infectious diseases, infection control and clinical microbiology”

19–22 May 2025
Rome, Italy

Course role: Faculty member and coordinator

Modules: Overview of the methodological steps; Defining the scope of a guideline and phrasing PICO questions; Literature searching; Risk-of-bias assessment RCTs; GRADE.

Advanced course on systematic reviews and meta-analyses for guideline development

6–9 November 2024
Rome, Italy

Course role: Faculty member and coordinator

Modules: GRADE; Risk-of-bias assessment; Approaches when evidence is absent.

Training course: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the area of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology

4–7 October 2023
Paris, France

Course role: Faculty member and coordinator

Modules: Defining the scope of the guideline and phrasing the PICO questions; Literature searches; Risk of bias (RoB) assessment by study design.

ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses for guidelines development in infectious diseases, infection control and clinical microbiology

15–17 September 2022
Bologna, Italy

Course role: Faculty member

Module: Systematic literature searches.

University of Prishtina – Faculty of Medicine

01 March 2022
Prishtina, Kosovo

Course role: Lecturer

Module: Clinical Guidelines: Methodology, Practices, and Challenges