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How can Brazil's post-graduation courses in clinical areas be improved?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Atallah, Álvaro Nagib |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | T here is not doubt that medicai post-graduation . courses have been growing positively during the last two decades in Brazil. Nowadays there is an increasing demand from universities for faculties with Master and Ph.D. degrees, mostly due to new roles of the federal government. A Master degree is presumed to give teaching skills, and the Ph.D. course is supposed to prepare medicai researchers. Althou.gh some areas within Basic Medicai Science have published good papers, the quality of ClinicaI Research usually presented as a thesis for the Master or Ph.D. title is far from being considered reasonable. And ClinicaI Research is as important as Basic MedicaI Research; it may be considered even more important for developing countries, where good evidence are essentiaI for planning and efficiency in health policy. Nowadays there is a tendency expressed by the CAPES* (Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) to improve the medicai postgraduation courses system in Brazil. It is also clear that the Master needs for his teaching activities to have good skills for criticaI appraisal of medicalliterature in order to reach the aims of his activities. It is very hard to teach without good skills for selecting the evidence of about 2,000,000 papers registered yearly in the biologicaI and medicai literature. AIso, the Ph.D. student in clinicai areas needs the same skills for teaching and researching activities. However, what has been noticed frequently is that medicai Ph.D.students at the end of the 5 |
| Starting Page | 316 |
| Ending Page | 317 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.scielo.br/pdf/spmj/v115n6/editorial.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 9640791v1 |
| Volume Number | 115 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Journal | Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Borg Scale Rating of Perceived Exertion Score 17 Federal Government Health Policy Paper Registration Scientific Publication Universities |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
