In common parlance, the term “event” often evokes images of celebrations, ceremonies, or large gatherings meant primarily for leisure. However, when considered in the academic environment, event planning can be understood as a pedagogical tool that fosters organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills among students. Far from being limited to logistical tasks such as scheduling rooms, event planning becomes a formative process in which students learn to manage resources, coordinate teams, and handle unforeseen challenges. In this sense, organizing an academic […]

Scientific initiation is a term used in Brazil to refer to Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs). Students join a research group and develop an individual project under the guidance of a mentor, typically a faculty member, researcher or other healthcare professional with a PhD. While these experiences are intended to cultivate critical skills in data collection, analysis, and interpretation, evidence suggests that students often devote most of their time to data collection and analysis, with limited engagement in understanding the broader […]

The issue of scientific training – scientific initiation (SI) in Brazil – for medical students is as old as evidence-based medicine. It goes far beyond training a new generation of physician-scientists needed for the continuous advancement of human health care. Advancements that throughout the 20th century led to doubling the average life expectancy, by saving lives in childhood and prolonging life in adults and the elderly through prophylaxis and treatment of deadly diseases. Science training is crucial for medical students, […]

Persistent challenges in robotic thoracic surgery training Despite these advances, several challenges remain in the education of robotic thoracic surgery, which are particularly pronounced in emerging economies. […]

Why is this phenomenon becoming widespread? With the increase in open access journals, the publishing industry is losing one of their best funding options: the subscription fees that medical libraries and researchers pay. Publishers have now become dependent on publishing fees. You may have heard the phrase “publish or perish.” Some global institutions pay their medical researchers based on how many papers they aim to publish every year. Some academic medical institutions also judge and decide the researchers’ tenure based […]

To review or not to review? For the participants, factors that most affected their decision on accepting to review a paper was the subject of the paper followed by time I have available for reviewing a paper, prestige of the journal, feeling of scientific/social responsibility, relationship with the associate editor and, clear advantage for the career. Meanwhile, factors that count on their decisions the most for rejecting a review were time I have available for reviewing a paper, followed by […]

The state of the art in the management of the Head and Neck cancer is the multidisciplinary approach (MDA), preferably in a Tumor Board setting including not only Medical Doctors of several specialties (Head and Neck Surgeons, Otolaryngologists, Plastic Surgeons, Clinical and Radiation Oncologists, Radiologists and Pathologists, Endocrinologists and Nuclear Medicine Specialists, among others), but other health professionals (Speech Therapists, Nurses, Physical Therapists and Psychologists, among others) as well.() However, it is important to emphasize that, in some less favored […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to improve the care of critically ill patients and enhance clinical outcomes.() The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) represents a complex environment in which patients frequently exhibit clinical instability and a high risk of death.() Timely and precise medical decisions are vital to delivering the best available treatment to patients.() AI has emerged as a transformative tool in several fields of medicine, and its application in critical care medicine is particularly promising.() Theoretically, AI may […]

Robotic surgery allows for better visualization and better handling of tissues during procedures because of the 3D view and articulated instruments which have more degrees of freedom than our own human wrist. Consequently, it is apparently easier to learn than other modalities of minimally invasive surgery (videoassisted thoracic surgery – VATS) and allows more surgeons to perform more complex procedures, particularly those that require bronchovascular sutures or reconstruction. Contributing for this assumption, recent studies have demonstrated that when compared to […]

Virchow: the multitalented physician Virchow was a multifaceted German physician (). He excelled in anthropology, biology, pathology, and politics. Virchow pursued his medical education at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. While at the Charité hospital, he studied the typhus outbreak in Upper Silesia (1848), establishing the basis for public health in Germany.() Virchow linked the Rickettsia prowazekii outbreak to poverty.(,) Virchow contended that eradicating social disparity was the sole means to avert future epidemics.() Virchow’s crusade against antisemitism was extraordinary, prompted by […]