Academic health centers: integration of clinical research with healthcare and education. Comments on a workshop

摘要

Formal training to prepare physicians for careers asinvestigators in Brazil is still incipient (1). However, thelearning environment is changing dramatically. The competitive arena is transforming the traditional learning environment into a collaborative and flexible learning environment(2). Clinical researchers and practitioners ideally share a goalof increasing the interactions between research and routinepractice in an evidence-based medicine (EBM) environment.EBM frameworks promote clinically relevant research andconsequently shape the scientific nature of the trainee's professional development. Early experience in clinical researchrepresents a powerful opportunity to train medical studentsto recognize the importance of training with new technologies.Those students are likely to adopt and maintain this approachas they progress through further professional achievements.