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>>Li: We are in the western part of China.
It's a less developed area so we are poor,
but money is important but not the only thing
so the most attractive thing for me is you can learn.
>>Noyes: Well I say to all my students, you will get some of the best training in Cochrane. It's mostly free.
So therefore if you want to professionally develop
and you need all these requisite skills to be a health services researcher
then The Cochrane Collaboration is one of the best places to be trained in systematic synthesis of evidence.
>>Bastian: To be able to acquire so much expertise that I find really valuable
without ever having to go to a university or anything is just quite unique.
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>>Cumpston: So if someone is brand new to this
and they are interested in a particular field of health care or health policy
and they want to write a review, we can help.
They'll need to have some understanding of how research works,
so what trials are, what a systematic review is,
but we can really help them through the process,
talk to them about good ways of framing a systemic review question
so that it will answer something useful that's a challenge,
whether it's a clinical question, or a policy question.
>>Scholten: Our main job is we train.
We try to recruit and we train Cochrane authors
and we, the Netherlands, is doing quite well.
We are the first non-English language-speaking country with contributions to The Cochrane Library.
>>Atallah: Six years ago we started giving courses through teleconference
for health professionals for the public area that's under the wing of the Minster of Health.
We already trained during one year more than 12,000 people.
>>Cumpston: The training in our region, at least in the Australasian region,
we have colleagues around Australia who help us out, so some of them are Cochrane editors,
some of them are statisticians, information specialists,
but we also work with colleagues in New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Korea.
>>Lumbiganon: We manage to organize various activity,
for example, Cochrane protocol development workshops,
workshops to complete Cochrane Reviews, regularly every year.
So we now, we have more than 100 Cochrane Review titles
conducted by authors from Thailand.
>>Hopewell: People that I might have taught maybe three or four years ago,
on the 'Train the Trainer' work in Cape Town,
they pop up again and, you know, suddenly they have done five Cochrane Reviews
and they are supervising three others
and so it's great to see that it's actually, actually having an effect.
>>Cumpston: We are moving towards more web-based materials,
particularly because we know that not everyone lives near a Cochrane entity.
It's a big world and it can be very expensive for people to travel
so we're trying to make sure that everything that we can put online is useful and engaging
and it means that we can deliver training to more people who would never have had that opportunity before
but it also means that we can deliver training right when people need it
so they don't have to wait six months for the next workshop to find out what to do,
about the heterogeneity in their forest plots
they can hop online and see a presentation about it, make contact with someone, get some help
when they are actually working on that part of the review.
>>Clarkson: The Oral Health Group, we are involved in the training of who will be the leaders of the future.
We have now embarked on setting up what we are calling a professional global alliance.
Whereby, we're asking oral and dental groups around the world to contribute financially
to enable us to employ methodologists who would work alongside the clinical teams
to produce the most important reviews in a timely fashion.
>>Craig: Over the last six to 12 months we're thinking, how can we make a difference in terms of global participation.
So we're exploring the notion of a Cochrane Academy,
which engages more fully lower- and middle-income countries,
which provides a career track record for contributors in that part of the world.
>>Nabhan: We want to make reform in our education system in Egypt.
It's something that we need to do for better health education and then health service.
In my belief and I'm trying to deliver this message to my students and my colleagues
that if we work with evidence, this will be better for the patients and less consuming,
less resource consuming. We save our resources and we save lives.
>>Cumpston: Training is a really important, part of what Cochrane does,
partly because what we do is fairly unique.
It isn't easy to get training in how to write a systematic review in a lot of places
and we really are lucky to have most of the experts in the world about these methods as part of our organisation
so we can really benefit the research community by building up skills in these areas and that also benefits us too
because it means we have a bigger pool of people who can write the reviews,
edit the reviews, comment on the reviews, implement the reviews.
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