Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

Experts in the delivery of critical appraisal and evidence based training for research and healthcare professionals.

CASP offers critical appraisal skills training, workshops, articles and tools to help improve your evidence based research, enabling you to check clinical research for trustworthiness, results & relevance.

Workshops

Online Training

Our Workshops

CASP online and in-person training workshops are designed to help you improve your critical appraisal skills and your understanding of evidence-based research across diverse study types and disciplines. Each workshop is led by an experienced CASP trainer ensuring they are time well spent, and provide a strong ROI.

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Online Training Courses

Short, online learning modules increase confidence when reading research. CASP lead trainer, Erica Ison has developed these online training courses in response to increasing demand for on-demand evidence based research and critical appraisal training courses.

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Checklist Tools

Our free critical appraisal checklists are designed to be used when reading research. Our critical appraisal tools can help when reviewing Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies, Cross-Sectional Studies and more!

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Interactive and Practical Training

The philosophy of CASP has always been about sharing knowledge and understanding, working in ways that are non-hierarchical, multidisciplinary and using problem-based approaches. This ensures that it is accessible and has practical day to day application.

Everyone wants good health and healthcare that is effective. But how can we know whether a claimed intervention is truly effective? Many interventions are given with the best of intentions but have later been found to be ineffective with the potential for harm and wasted resources.

Critical appraisal skills enable you to systematically assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) has over 25 years of significant and unrivalled expertise in the delivery of training to healthcare professionals.

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Highly Recommended

“I can’t tell you how much I benefited from the training I had last year. I use the systematic review and RCT papers and CASP crib sheets in my lectures and classes plus other teaching and learning resources provided during that week.”
Highly Recommended

“I can’t tell you how much I benefited from the training I had last year. I use the systematic review and RCT papers and CASP crib sheets in my lectures and classes plus other teaching and learning resources provided during that week.”
Highly Recommended

“I can’t tell you how much I benefited from the training I had last year. I use the systematic review and RCT papers and CASP crib sheets in my lectures and classes plus other teaching and learning resources provided during that week.”