This is a call to health justice organizations to submit comments to the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) citizen petition.
Are the methods we use to measure academic success driving authors to prioritise quantity over quality? How does the presence of predatory journals further influence behaviour within the scientific publishing world?
Students 4 Best Evidence is a blogging network by, and for, students interested in evidence-based healthcare. Learn more about the beginnings of our student community and how you can get involved.
Learn more about the Epistemonikos Foundation and its repository of healthcare systematic reviews. The first in a series of three blogs.
Every March, Endometriosis Awareness Month takes place across the world. But what exactly is endometriosis and why is it vital to continue the dialogue surrounding it even beyond the month of March?
Health literacy is, in a nutshell, the extent to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make an informed health decision. But what is the impact on health outcomes for those with poor health literacy?
If you’d like to blog for Students 4 Best Evidence, but are feeling unsure where to start, have a look at this list of suggested blog topics.
The combination of rising antibiotic resistance and fewer new antibiotic approvals highlights the importance of judicial antimicrobial management. Many institutions are implementing antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) to raise awareness of the importance of antibiotic stewardship.
The MEDICS initiative aims to ensure a fundamental level of medical statistics and risk communication for medical students. Lathan Liou, founder of MEDICS, invites S4BE students to get involved.
The Cochrane Climate-Health Working Group welcome new members, from any part of the world. No particular background or expertise with climate change is needed, just an interest in learning more.
The Trip database has recently had a major revamp so now is a good time to look again at what Trip is and how it can be of benefit to S4BE members.
The Cochrane Early Career Professionals group are looking for members to join the Steering Group. Applications close on Tuesday 20th July.
Chris set up a student journal club in his first year of Physical Therapy training. In this blog, he describes how he started the club, how it has changed and expanded throughout his studies, and provides tips and suggested papers to get you started.
This week saw the launch of the Spanish-language blog for students interested in evidence-based health care. Welcome to Estudiantes X La Mejor Evidencia (ExME)!
Would you like to try something a bit different? Cochrane are inviting the S4BE community to make short videos for their TikTok and Instagram platforms. Read on to find out more!
Vaccine trials have to go through a rigorous testing process before being released for use. This topic is particularly relevant as vaccine developers aim to deliver a SARS-CoV2 vaccine to the population in record time.
Following the addition of new features and updates on the Cochrane Library, Hasan provides an illustrative summary of which features he has found most useful.
COVID-19 has highlighted the inefficiencies that exist in clinical research, as well as the frailties of the current publishing system. This blog examines two prominent examples from the pandemic.
The role of social media in the COVID-19 crisis relative to the contribution of scientific research globally.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical health researchers face the delicate balancing act of producing rigorous, reliable research, but doing so in as short a timeframe as possible.
Concerns are being raised whether the medical field can play by the same rules as the other sciences when it comes to preprints. Yunus Gokkir discusses benefits and risks of preprints in this blog.
Chiara has spent 3 months with Cochrane Sweden on the newly formed Cochrane International Mobility (CIM) programme. She provides an overview of the activities she’s been involved in and encourages others to find out more.
Sarah Tanveer provides tips and guidance for students attending their first Cochrane Colloquium, based on her experience at the Edinburgh Colloquium in 2018.
Cochrane Crowd’s Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager Emily Steele, and Co-Leader Anna Noel-Storr blog about the benefits for students of getting involved with Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform.
The Cochrane UK Student Elective is a bi-annual opportunity for students to learn and participate in the activities of Cochrane through their Oxford based UK office. I was lucky to be offered a place in the October 2018 cohort. I can recommend this programme to early researchers looking to add to their research experience. Oxford is also a great UK city to visit and spend some time.
The EU Trials Tracker, devised by the EBM DataLab at the University of Oxford, tracks which trials on the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) have reported their results within a year of completion. Learn more about this tracker and how you need to take action.
Heidi Gardner is part of a team of researchers working on the PRioRiTy II project, a research project aiming to identify the most important things that we currently don’t know about things that affect whether people stay involved in trial. Read more about the project here and then have your say in identifying the top 10 questions about trial retention that still need answering.
TaskExchange has launched new features especially for evidence newcomers! TaskExchange is Cochrane’s online platform that connects people needing help on health evidence projects (Cochrane and non-Cochrane) with people who have the time and skills to help out.
In 2018 Cochrane UK, along with Students 4 Best Evidence, will be offering two 4-week placements: Monday 4th June to Friday 29th June and Monday 1st October to Friday 26th October. This blog explains more about what you can expect from this elective and how to apply.
In this blog, Saul Crandon provides an overview of the Academic Foundation Programme, which allows doctors to explore a range of academic interests, gain additional qualifications, build their portfolio and experience life as a clinical academic.
Cochrane Malaysia and Penang Medical College, with the support of Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) recently ran an evidence-based medicine blog writing competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students of health in Malaysia.
Cindy and Itzel provide us with a student perspective of their time at the Global Evidence Summit. It was the first meeting of Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N), the International Society for Evidence-based Health Care and the Joanna Briggs Institute, which took place in September 2017. “…for our luck, it was our very first time attending a Colloquium. This event took place in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, the land of the first heart transplant”.
The Global Evidence Summit took place between 13th and 17th September 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event saw over 1400 delegates from 77 countries gather to discuss how to use evidence to improve lives. Heidi Gardner (a PhD student in Applied Health Sciences) blogs on her thoughts, experience, tips and hope for the future after attending the Summit.
This blog introduces Evidology, a group of Mexican students interested in learning more about and promoting evidence-based practice.
This blog introduces the MiRoR project. It’s all about “Research on Research”: an emerging new scientific discipline that aims to reduce waste in research and increase research value.
This is the story of the MedLit Blitz birthday celebration. Cochrane Crowd joined forces with another innovative platform Mark2Cure to run the MedLit Blitz, consisting of three events: a webinar, a 24 hour Cochrane Crowd screening challenge, and a 24 hour Mark2Cure challenge.
Entries for the blog writing competition have now closed! Once all entries have been judged, the winners will be announced, and the winning blog will be posted on the Students 4 Best Evidence website.
This blog introduces Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) which provides grants for all stages of researchers’ careers – be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers – and encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.
Since the beginning of their partnership, the media and medical research have endured a rocky relationship, with many questioning their current compatibility. But what does the future hold for these two?
Join Cochrane Crowd, their partner Mark2Cure and their collective global volunteer network for an online MedLit Blitz, May 9th-12th.
This blog announces the Bristol March for Science. Taking place April 22nd 2017, it’s one of many marches taking place throughout the world that students can get involved with to advocate for adequate funding of scientific research & evidence-based decision-making.
Georgia Richards spent 4 weeks at Cochrane UK learning more about evidence-based healthcare and the work of Cochrane. Here’s what she made of her time there…
Drum roll please… the results of our student competition to win free registration for the Cochrane UK & Ireland symposium 2017 are announced here.
Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s new citizen science platform, recently ran a successful 48 hour citation screening challenge to reach the goal of 1 million research citations screened. The Cochrane Crowd team have provided this overview of the event.
Here are 34 key concepts that are crucial to understand to be able to critically appraise the claims that people make about treatments. And here are lots of resources that explain each key concept. Students, we need your help reviewing them!
We’re holding a competition for a student based in the UK or Ireland to attend the 2017 annual Cochrane UK & Ireland symposium for free. Competition deadline: 31st January 2017. The symposium is in Oxford on the 14th & 15th March 2017.
In this blog, learn about the Mafaldas, a group of medical students in Brazil & how they’re aiming to promote evidence-based practice among students and the wider community in Brazil.
In the fourth blog of our new series, Understanding Evidence, the Cochrane UK Trainees introduce their group and invite you to get involved. Join in the conversation on Twitter @CochraneUK #CochraneTrainees #understandingevidence.
In the third blog of our new series, Understanding Evidence, Selena Ryan-Vig introduces Students 4 Best Evidence, a blogging network by and for students interested in evidence-based healthcare. Join in the conversation on Twitter with @Students4BE @CochraneUK#understandingevidence
Cochrane UK’s Director, Martin Burton, introduces Cochrane UK’s new series Understanding Evidence, created in partnership with Students 4 Best Evidence, which kicks off today with a week of blogs.
John, a medical student at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, spent 5 weeks at Cochrane UK for part of his elective over July and August 2016. He highly recommends it. Here’s why…
Interested in communicating health evidence? Cochrane is calling for volunteers to support Wikipedia editing. Wikipedia’s health content was made up of more than 155,000 articles at the end of 2013, and was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in the same year.[1] Wikipedia thus is a major source of health information for people across the world. The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership, formalized in 2014, supports the inclusion of relevant evidence within all Wikipedia articles on health, as well as processes to
Keep up to date with the latest Cochrane evidence by following our sister blog, Evidently Cochrane. Evidently Cochrane posts weekly blogs, which usually feature new or updated Cochrane reviews on a health topic. It is for everyone interested in finding and using the best quality evidence to inform decisions about health.
Introducing Cochrane Crowd, a collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence so that – ultimately – we can make better healthcare decisions. Find out how and why you should get involved.
Students from Latin America: This call is for you. Students 4 Best Evidence is an international network for students interested in healthcare. Join now, and you can blog about whatever you’re interested in related to evidence-based healthcare. In this blog, Ana talks about her experiences, what Students 4 Best Evidence is and why you should join.
Swiss students discuss what Cochrane is and what the Cochrane logo represents. They also talk about their experiences of the Cochrane Colloquium held in Vienna 2015 (which was themed around ‘filtering the information overload for better decisions’) and the role of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines at the Colloquium.
Come help the Informed Health Choices project develop a new tool for evaluating EBM educational materials.
Why you too should be writing for Students 4 Best Evidence
Students 4 Best Evidence and it’s sister blog Evidently Cochrane have been shortlisted in the UK Blog Awards 2016 in the ‘education (company)’ and ‘health (company)’ categories respectively!
Please vote for us in the UK Blog Awards 2016, all your votes count!
So students you have no excuse, register and join the Students 4 Best Evidence community today and get access to lots of fantastic resources!
Sense About Science brings free media workshops focussing on ‘Standing Up for Science’ to early-careers researchers in the UK – Heidi reviews the workshop.
Join S4BE at the International Student EBM Congress on Kish Island in December 2015!
Sense About Science brings free workshops focussing on peer review to early-careers researchers in the UK – Heidi reviews this year’s Glasgow workshop.
The Cochrane Dementia Group’s Modifiable Risk Factors project has utilized new crowdsourcing techniques to speed up the review process. Sofía Jaramillo takes a look behind the scenes.
We are launching a new, year long campaign to promote students globally to ask What’s the Evidence?
Robert Kemp reports on how a Cochrane review group has, with some success, been working to speed up an important stage of the review production process by introducing crowdsourcing methods to the arduous task of citation screening.
Sofía Jaramillo shares some thoughts on the use of crowdsourcing in sicentific research.
What do you do when you have a task that is so big that you couldn’t possibly do it all on your own? Well, if you are like most people you will probably call up a few buddies and get them to help you out. That is pretty much what crowdsourcing is. The formal definition, according to the OED, is ‘to obtain by enlisting the services of a largenumber of people’. While crowdsourcing of one kind or another has been around
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Students 4 Best Evidence has been shortlisted for the UK Blog Awards 2015, education (industry) category! Well done!
(Take the survey here.) S4BE is growing up. Our wonderful contributors have together written a lot of blog posts, and students and trainees in far-flung college campuses are helping spread the news about best evidence. Also, we’re on the radars of and partners with a few big organisations, and thanks to the hard work of lots and lots of different people, we’re in the minds of many others. Into 2015, we’re planning on working with more universities, helping students focus
Want to attend the big evidence-based conference happening next April? Well go to evidencelive.org for more details about student abstract submission!
What does it mean to be in a partnership with Students 4 Best Evidence?
We’ve put together some guidance on how, what, and why to blog. If you’re after some advice or tips, this might be a good place to start before you dive into writing for S4BE, or any blog, really.
We have entered the 2015 UK Blog Awards education category and we need your votes!
Voting opens on the 10th November 2014! #UKBA15
New S4BE Contributor Amy came along to the S4BE Wikipedia Editathon. In this blog she discusses how Wikipedia can help share the latest health information and how she found editing Wiki for the first time…
Missed the event? Don’t worry. Here you have another chance to go through the workshops and the edits.
this is a reblog from http://dmlcentral.net/. It’s a piece by Cathy Davidson, Director of Futures Initiative, at The Graduate Center, CUNY. We thought it was really useful for S4BE Contributors CV’s when citing your blogs.
Richard Lehman is a brilliant academic primary care physician who writes a weekly review of all the big journals; a number of our star bloggers (Pishoy, Nathan, Norah and Yamama) have taken the time to blog Richard’s Reviews for patients and students.
An exciting week of blogs, resources and tutorials, culminating in a LIVE Wiki Editathon, online and at the UK Cochrane Centre on the 16th September!
The Cochrane Collaboration announced earlier this year a partnership initiative with WikiProject Medicine; a Wikipedia project, read more here.
August 8 is #DyingToKnowDay, an annual day of bringing to life conversation around death. Ammar tells us a bit more about it.
Sense about science are encouraging people to #AskForEvidence for fad diets. #diet #spoofdiets
Alice went to the Cochrane UK and Ireland Annual Symposium in Manchester in April – here are her reflections on its theme: Cochrane Evidence: Useful, Usable, and Used.
The final two plenary sessions of October 2013’s Cochrane Colloqium looked at knowledge and health globally, and then to the future.
Lucy has reviewed our new partners – Sense About Science, find out more about them here…
Sense About Science are partners with S4BE. Find out from their Campaigns & Policy Officer Chris, why we should all be asking for evidence.
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Open Access Button is an online tool to help the public deal with the frustration of encountering journal paywalls by mapping out incidences of paywalls and finding Open Access alternatives. This blog explores its background and its beginnings.
Click here to read more about Graeme’s experiences as a newcomer to Cochrane, at this year’s Colloquium in Quebec.
Check out our wonderful web of students, partners and activities.
Touch down in Quebec City!
Forum For Medical Students [INFORMER] is a medical student’s organization aimed at promoting research and evidence-based medicine among undergraduate medical students.
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Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?