Cochrane Library

New National License Agreement Provides Brazil with Unlimited Access to the Cochrane Library 

 

 

 

John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JW-A) (NYSE:JW-B), today announced a new license agreement with the country of Brazil that provides unlimited access to the Cochrane Library. From academics to clinicians to patients, the two-year agreement provides one-click access to 7,000 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions to more than 207 million Brazilians.

The access was possible due to the contract signed by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES in Portuguese) and Wiley. CAPES offers a tool for accessing and sharing scientific information called the Portal de Periódicos—a virtual library where the Cochrane Library is available.

Geraldo Nunes Sobrinho, Director of Programs and Scholarships for CAPES welcomed the move: “The national license in Brazil will enhance the quality of evidence used in healthcare interventions country-wide. By investing in the Cochrane Library for our country, we are considering future health of our population and ensuring the best evidence is available to all.”

Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library, Dr. David Tovey said of the agreement, “We are delighted that citizens of Brazil now have unlimited access to the Cochrane Library to help inform their health decisions.”   

Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, careers, and people interested in health. The organization gathers and summarizes the best evidence from research to help make informed choices about treatment. More than 37,000 Cochrane contributors from over 130 countries work together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. There are 52 review groups covering a variety of health topics from Infectious Disease to Oral Health to Pregnancy and Childbirth. 

Deborah Pentesco-Murphy, Editorial Director, Cochrane at John Wiley & Sons said, “This national license for Brazil is a great opportunity to secure the highest quality healthcare decisions are made based on top evidence. The Cochrane Library covers everyone from the researcher to the general practitioner to the patient. It is of great importance that we can now provide access, country-wide, to the gold-standard healthcare interventions through the Cochrane Library.”

 

Additional Information

About Cochrane
Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health.
Cochrane produces reviews which study all of the best available evidence generated through research and make it easier to inform decisions about health. These are called systematic reviews.
Cochrane is a not-for profit organization with collaborators from more than 130 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. Our work is recognized as representing an international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.
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About CAPES and Portal de Periódicos
CAPES is a foundation linked to the Ministry of Education that is responsible for coordinating the Brazilian Postgraduate Studies System (Master and PhD levels), and for authorizing the creation of new Masters (academic and professional) and PhD courses, as well as evaluating those that already exist. Internationally recognized for its work, the institution evaluates the performance of postgraduate study programs across the entire country and certifies their quality.
Portal de Periódicos is one of the largest virtual libraries in the world. It offers the best of national and international scientific production to more than 400 higher education and research institutions in Brazil. Throughout its 17 years of history, Portal de Periodicos has revolutionized access to the bibliographic collection and has become an important instrument for scientific, technological, academic and innovation activity.

About Wiley
Wiley, a global research and learning company, helps people and organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their work. For more than 210 years, we have delivered consistent performance to our stakeholders. The company's website can be accessed at www.wiley.com.

Evidence-based Education

ACE paper: Evidence-based teaching practices linked to student success, but not widely used

Geoff Decker

Effective teaching is closely linked to student success, but evidence-based practices are still not widely used in higher education, finds a white paper released this week by the American Council on Education (ACE).

“Instruction matters,” concludes the paper, Unpacking Relationships: Instruction and Student Outcomes. “And higher education needs to provide support for faculty to help students attain outcomes.”

The paper’s author, Natasha Jankowski, discussed her findings with senior administrators, faculty developers, and college educators in a webinar hosted by ACE on Tuesday. During the discussion, Jankowski said that evidence-based teaching practices are usually limited to small pockets on campuses. “They’re not happening at a scale in which you can see an impact,” said Jankowski, director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.

College leaders echoed those sentiments during the one-hour webinar.

“We are quite concerned about scale–and reaching our 990 adjuncts,” wrote one participant from Cal State LA, citing Cal State LA’s partnership with ACUE to address the challenge.

ACUE and ACE have teamed up to address scalability concerns and dramatically improve student outcomes through effective instruction. Faculty who satisfy ACUE Course requirements earn a Certificate in Effective College Instruction endorsed by ACE, a distinction that shows they have learned and applied evidence-based approaches in the classroom.

In the paper, Jankowski writes that success hinges on whether students are learning from proven instructional methods and in engaged learning environments. She focuses on five “areas of intersection” between instruction and student outcomes:

1. Transparency to ensure teaching and learning is visible to all students and that they have a clear understanding by which they will be assessed.
2. Pedagogical approaches that include research-based practices such as active learning,  flipped classrooms, service learning, and problem-based learning.
3. Assessments that are inherently embedded in teaching and learning.
4. Self-regulation and the role of students’ active engagement in their own learning.
5. Alignment of various elements within a learning environment, such as content, instructional design, and assignment.

Additional ACUE resources related to these topics:

• ACUE’s Expert Series article on transparent instruction featuring Mary-Ann Winkelmes
• ACUE’s Effective Practice Framework covers the essential college teaching practices, organized across five units
• ACUE’s Assessing to Inform Instruction and Promote Learning unit, which includes the Checking for Student Understanding module
• ACUE’s Expert Series article on metacognition, featuring Saundra McGuire
• ACUE’s Designing an Effective Course and Class unit, which includes modules on Aligning Assessments With Course Outcomes and Aligning Activities and Assignments with Course Outcomes

Medicina Baseada em Evidências

 

Videoconferência de Treinamento de Ferramentas na Área da Saúde

Ontem e hoje (11 e 12/08/2014) a Universidade Federal do Piauí, pela primeira vez, transmitiu uma videoconferência por meio do Núcleo de Estudos Pesquisa e Extensão em Educação Permanente para o SUS (NUEPES) que tratou sobre o Curso Treinamento de Ferramentas BMJ Learning e Best Practice para uso na prática clínica e processos de aprendizagem na área da Saúde.

Vídeoconferência na Pró-Reitoria de Extensão (PREX)

"Quando o profissional busca a medicina baseada em evidências, ele toma uma decisão mais acertada para salvar vidas, o portal com suas bases de dados devem ser um instrumento diário desses trabalhadores, já que este é disponibilizado gratuitamente pelo Ministério da Saúde", frizou a coordenadora da NUEPES, Lis Cardoso Marinho Medeiros.

Coordenadora da NUEPES, Lis Cardoso Marinho Medeiros

O portal "Saúde Baseada em Evidências" é uma cortesia do Ministério da Saúde para todos os profissionais da Área no Brasil tendo sido criado com o objetivo de disponibilizar bases de dados com informações científicas de melhor qualidade e atualizadas,  que procuram ajudar o profissional nas suas decisões diárias pelo o que é estudado cientificamente.

Uma das bases de dados disponibilizada gratuitamente é da editora do British Medical Journal (BMJ), revista inglesa tradicional da Área de Saúde, a UFPI contou com a presença da representante da BMJ, Laura Santana, que falou sobre duas ferramentas educacionais que contém na base de dados do portal, onde auxiliam uma segunda opinião como referência clínica e oferecem módulos de aprendizagem online que os usuários, profissionais e estudantes, podem usar para uma atualização sobre os temas de suas especialidades.

"O Portal é um recurso muito valioso, tanto para os profissionais da Saúde quanto para os estudantes, o conteúdo dessa base de dados é orientado por evidências científicas para ajudar na tomada de decisão dos profissionais", afirmou Laura Santana.

Representante da British Medical Journal (BMJ), Laura Santana

Fonte: http://www.nuepes.blogspot.com.br/

Educação médica baseada em evidências

Marilyn Hammick — BEME: What is Evidence?

Radcliffe Training & Conference Centre,
May 14-15,2009


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