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Implementación de la metodología indagatoria-mayéutica en la educación médica en Chile

Rev. ANACEM (Impresa); 14 (2), 2020
La indagación científica se entiende como un “proceso en el cual se plantean preguntas acerca del mundo natural, se generan hipótesis, se diseña una investigación, y se colectan, analizan datos con el objeto de encontrar una solución al problema” (Windschitl, 2003: 113). La educación médica e...

Encouragement to submit manuscripts-suggestions from a Japanese Associate Editor of Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Acta cir. bras; 35 (4), 2020
Abstract Medicine can be broadly divided into two fields: clinical medicine that aims to save existing patients and basic medical research that aims to save the lives of future patients. In terms of disseminating basic medical research, medical journals play a vital role for physicians and scientists, as...

Cómo leer y generar publicaciones científicas: aspectos éticos de la investigación clínica en niños y adolescentes

Clinical research obtains new knowledge for well-being of people and is ethically is justified for the common good. The objective of this article is to describe some of aspects of an ethical research, that must be valuable, valid, independently evaluated and must consider risks and ...

Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz: the character, the scientist, the academician

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop; 53 (supl.1), 2020
Abstract The present work analyses some particular aspects of Oswaldo Cruz's unique biography, valuing his work, which was built along a successful physician and scientist professional trajectory and also as a courageous and fortunate formulator of public health policies and of fight strategies against t...

Early public research funding response to COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Abstract INTRODUCTION: This study investigated the role of early public research funding regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. METHODS: We examined the budget for research projects relating to the number of cases and deaths and the relationship between each federal unit, gross domestic product (...

Bibliometría o altimetría: desde las métricas tradicionales a las actuales. Revisión bibliográfica
Bibliometry or altimetry: from traditional metrics to present. A review

Introducción:La forma en la que se mide la difusión de la información en la comunidad científica ha sufrido cambios en la última década. Objetivo:Esta revisión tiene como objetivo contextualizar al lector sobre las diferentes formas de medir el impacto de un artículo, tomando en cuen...

Mapping the tuberculosis scientific landscape among BRICS countries: a bibliometric and network analysis

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 115 (), 2020
BACKGROUND The five BRICS (Brazil, Russian, Indian, China, and South Africa) countries bear 49% of the world's tuberculosis (TB) burden and they are committed to ending tuberculosis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to map the scientific landscape related to TB research in BRICS countries. METHODS...

Two years into the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative: reflections on conducting a large-scale replication of Brazilian biomedical science

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 115 (), 2020
Scientists have increasingly recognised that low methodological and analytical rigour combined with publish-or-perish incentives can make the published scientific literature unreliable. As a response to this, large-scale systematic replications of the literature have emerged as a way to assess the proble...

Escritos biomédicos de dermatología en la Revista Médica Hondureña
Dermatology biomedical papers in the Revista Médica Hondureña

Rev. méd. hondur; 88 (1, supl), 2020
La dermatología como especialidad en Honduras tuvo sus inicios en los años 50, con los aportes imperecederos de los pioneros Eduardo Fernando Selva, Hernán Corrales Padilla y Héctor Laínez. En una revisión de la Revista Médica Hondureña (RMH), en el periodo comprendido entre 1930 a marzo 202...

Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Genomic Markers in Urology. Do we need to Tailor our Clinical Practice?

Precision medicine plays a key role in urological oncology practice nowadays, with the breakthrough of the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi), which play a critical role in different DNA damage repair (DDR) pathways, the immune checkpoint inhibitors, the genomic expression profiles and curre...