| Cochrane: spreading the message of research to students and juniors. | |
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PMID: 21833984 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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At the 2009 meeting of INFORMER (www.informer.org.in), the forum for Indian medical students' research, Professor Prathap Tharyan, director of the South Asian Cochrane Centre (www.cochrane-sacn.org), gave a workshop on evidence-based medicine (EBM). As a consequence, INFORMER became associated with the Cochrane Centre, based at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.In January 2010, the partnership was developed at the 3rd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence-Informed Healthcare, held in Vellore. Cochrane Collaboration leaders met with INFORMER representatives and a group of medical and allied health sciences students to discuss how students could participate more within the Collaboration. Ideas included: A formal students' group linked with Cochrane Expansion of this group beyond the intrinsic institutes and countries Training modules designed to teach elements of EBM to students Periodic webinars Students' involvement in preparing a medical glossary for peer-reviewing a Cochrane Review A 'research question' database, based on medical students' ideas, that could help establish collaborations between younger minds and experienced researchers A Twitter account to send out daily evidence updates Involvement of students in authoring plain language summaries and 'How the intervention works' sections of Cochrane Reviews More introductory workshops to spread awareness of EBM and The Cochrane Library among medical students A Journal Club for students focusing on regional issues; perhaps coordinated by local Cochrane Centres. Following the Vellore exploratory meeting, a Cochrane Students' Journal Club (csjconline.informer.org.in) was started at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. The aims were to get students involved in medical research and to increase awareness of the Cochrane Collaboration and research in general. Parallel to this, an online forum was started on INFORMER's Facebook Group to attract a wider audience and to initiate a discussion about the review to be presented at the Journal Club meeting. At the Journal Club sessions, held twice a month, the review is presented as a clinical scenario; the discussions from the online forum are included within the presentation to extend the debate. This has led to more and more students becoming involved with research, with attendance at the Journal Club rising from 20-30 to 70-80. Many of the students who took part in the Journal Club were eager to contribute to the Cochrane Collaboration in one way or another, confirming the potential for benefits for both the Collaboration and the student community.In December 2010, at the 5th Eastern Mediterranean Medical Journals Conference in Karachi, Pakistan, Dr Zbys Fedorowicz, Director of the Bahrain Branch of the UK Cochrane Centre, engaged with students and junior doctors from Iran, Egypt, Croatia, Bahrain and other countries to discuss the involvement of Cochrane at medical school level. The end of the conference marked the beginning of a collaboration of the Cochrane Students' Journal Club with the Karachi Chapter of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA). As the local contact person, Dr Kiran Ejaz proposed that the Journal Club should become an extension of the already established PMA Juniors' Journal Club. The aim of this collaboration is to promote Cochrane among undergraduates and to encourage them to be involved in EBM learning and research activities.What these activities have in common is that they demonstrate the opportunities for the Collaboration through engaging with students and juniors, and introducing them to The Cochrane Library. One of the Cochrane Collaboration's core principles is to "build on the enthusiasm of individuals", and this has been exemplified in what has been achieved to date. However, there is clearly scope to develop such activities and relationships further, engaging with students from other disciplines and from beyond South Asia. As the Collaboration prepares to conduct a strategic session on the subject of encouraging greater diversity, these pioneering activities provide much food for thought.Image credit: Kiran EjazKeywords: CME The Cochrane Library. |
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Vikas Sud; Kiran Ejaz; Zbys Fedorowicz; Manu Mathew; Akshay Sharma |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-03-16 |
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Title: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) Volume: - ISSN: 1469-493X ISO Abbreviation: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-08-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100909747 Medline TA: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: ED000026 Citation Subset: IM |
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Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Indian. |
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