Health Professions Education

Knowledge synthesis (KS) activities include systematic, scoping, realist, or rapid reviews, meta-analyses, and other types of reviews. Information Specialists (IS) from the Library Services team may contribute their expertise to KS project teams. The contributions of an IS include:

• providing guidance on various steps in conducting a knowledge synthesis review;
• creating and documenting comprehensive literature searches;
• making software recommendations for citation and data management;
• writing the literature search methods for the manuscript according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) or other appropriate guidelines.

To have an IS join your KS project team, please complete and submit the application form.