Medical students at Global Evidence Summit in Prague
11/10/2024Medical students attended Global Evidence Summit in Prague
The Global Evidence Summit (GES) brought together the world’s leading professionals and institutions in the field.
Three medical students from the Universidad de Valparaíso attended the Global Evidence Summit (GES), which took place in Prague between 10 and 13 September 2024, accompanied by professors from the Scientific Research Methodology and Evidence-Based Medicine programmes, to present their work.
Assistants and teachers at the Cochrane stand inside the O2 Universum. From left to right: Fernando Briceño Muga, Nicolás Meza, Eva Madrid, Javier Bracchiglione, Felipe Álvarez Busco and Germán Loyola Prado.
GES 2024 was an important forum for discussion on evidence-based health practices that covered a range of topics related to individual and community health, education, social justice, the environment and climate change. This summit, which brought together researchers from around the world, was jointly organised by the four main institutions dedicated to producing evidence syntheses for decision making in healthcare: the Cochrane Collaboration, the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), the Guidelines International Network (GIN), and the Campbell Collaboration.
Students Fernando Briceño Muga, Germán Loyola Prado and Felipe Álvarez Busco, assistants at the School of Medicine’s Clinical Research Incubator, gave four poster presentations, where they analysed the impact of a meta-analysis tool, the readability of Cochrane reviews and the risks of bias in Chilean randomised clinical trials published between 2017 and 2022.
For the development of these projects, the students worked – from early 2024 – under the guidance of Eva Madrid, Nicolás Meza and Javier Bracchiglione, who also attended and presented at the GES, as well as Roberto Garnham and Fanny Leyton, all researchers at CIESAL.
Student Fernando Briceño evaluated the impact of a sophisticated methodological tool (within-trial framework) in a British HIV clinical guideline. In addition, he shared the results of the readability assessment of Cochrane reviews before and after the publication of the Plain Language Summaries (PLS) guide.
Germán Loyola Prado shared the results of his work, where he used a tool designed to assess gender bias (SGAT-SR-2) in Chilean clinical trials, and reported on the limited reporting of this issue at the local level.
Felipe Álvarez Busco presented an assessment of the risk of methodological bias in Chilean randomised clinical trials accompanied by a comparative analysis of the risk according to the source of funding of the studies.
Assistants attending the poster presentation at the Global Evidence Summit.
The three professors accompanying the students – Madrid, Meza and Bracchiglione – gave oral presentations on different methodological topics.
The projects presented in Prague were also supported by other undergraduate researchers: Nicolás Flores, Diego Grandi, Santiago Weinborn, María Jesús Araya, Isabella Arrisi, Nicole Molina and María Isidora Navarro.
Over the four days of the event, the students had the opportunity to attend plenary sessions, presentations, workshops and debates on different issues related to methodological innovation and evidence-based medicine.
From left to right: Germán Loyola, Felipe Álvarez, Fernando Briceño, Eva Madrid, Gordon Guyatt (who is considered one of the fathers of Evidence Based Medicine) and Gerard Urrutia.
Both teachers and assistants took part in the Ibero-American Cochrane Network Meeting in Prague, which brought together fifty attendees from Spain and Latin American countries such as Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru.