Una revisión sistemática sobre 46 estudios confirma que la miocarditis por vacuna es más común en jóvenes, varones, luego de la segunda dosis.
Esto sugiere que en el caso de vacunar debiera elegirse otras plataformas si están disponibles, o bien no dar la vacuna de Moderna, además de prolongar el rango interdosis a 56 días.
Los estudios primarios se consideran de baja calidad por ser observacionales, pero son consistentes y establecen un gradiente dosis y aparición del efecto lo que es indicio de causalidad.
Tomado de Universo AbiertoLister, Heather. How to Define Success in Your Makerspace. Demco Ideas & inspiration, 2019Texto completoUno de los debates más acalorados en la educación de los creadores gira en torno a la evaluación.¿Evaluar o no evaluar?No es ningún secreto que la educación está al borde de la obsesión por las evaluaciones.
"...la docencia híbrida no debe centrarse únicamente en alternar educación presencial con educación a distancia mediada por tecnología, sino que debe promover un uso más efectivo en el aula de las posibilidades de aprendizaje que ofrecen las herramientas digitales, con un mejor aprovechamiento de la tecnología para crear experiencias centradas en el alumno, que sean personalizadas, relevantes y atractivas" (BID, 2021: 7).
The relationship between large-group classroom attendance by students and test achievement in problem-based learning (PBL) curricula is unclear. This study examined the correlation between attendance at resource sessions (hybrid lectures in the PBL curriculum) and test scores achieved in pharmacology and determined whether the score achieved was related to student gender. A cross-sectional observational study over one academic year of 1404 pre-clerkship medical students was performed. Class attendance during pharmacology resource sessions and MCQ test scores achieved in pharmacology were analysed. The percentage of students’ attendance in resource sessions declined over three years of the programme, from 78.7 ± 27.5 in unit I to 22.1 ± 35.6 (mean ± SD) in unit IX. A significant but weakly positive correlation was evident between attendance and achievement in pharmacology (r = 0.280; p < 0.0001). The mean score of the students who attended > 50% of the resource sessions was significantly higher (p < 0.0001). Students who attended ≤50% were more likely to achieve lower tertile scores. The mean score achieved and the number of higher tertile scorers were higher among students who attended > 50% of the resource sessions. Although female students’ attendance was significantly higher, no significant gender-related differences in either mean scores or top grades achieved were found. In a PBL curriculum, the classroom attendance of students in pharmacology declined during the pre-clerkship phase. A weak positive correlation was found between attendance and academic achievement, as measured by MCQ test scores. Factors other than motivation and attendance may confound gender-based academic performance and merit further research.
The ninth annual Be Medicinewise Week is encouraging Australians to get to know the language of medicines. Understanding and communicating about medicines is key to getting the most out of them, safely.
Christopher Haynes says it's time to stop asking if online learning is effective.
It is time to stop asking if online learning is as “effective” as traditional face-to-face learning. The question has been asked and answered. Asking it over and over again will not yield the responsive, localized, and collaborative answers we need to facilitate meaningful education for an increasingly diverse body of learners.
The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the reliability and value of published health research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting and wider use of robust reporting guidelines.
It is the first coordinated attempt to tackle the problems of inadequate reporting systematically and on a global scale; it advances the work done by individual groups over the last 15 years.
En los últimos años la crisis económica ha causado estragos en el Sistema Nacional de Salud de España. Esto, no es noticia. Pero sí lo es saber de qué manera se hicieron los recortes, como nos cuenta Sergio Minué en su blog, recortes que se han cebado fundamentalmente con la atención primaria y que, visto lo visto,…
"Alzheimer's drug may keep late-stage sufferers out of nursing homes," The Guardian reports. A study found people with Alzheimer's who continued to take a drug called donepezil were less likely to be admitted into care than people who stopped taking it.