Sobreprevención y otros excesos

GONZALO CASINO / @gonzalocasino / gcasino@escepticemia.com / www.escepticemia.com Sobre la prevención mal entendida y algunas desmesuras de la medicina Sobrediagnóstico, sobredefinición, sobredetección, sobreventa, sobretratamiento (overdiagnosis, overdefinition, overdetection, overselling, overtreatment) son palabros de reciente cuño a los que podemos añadir el de sobreprevención. Guardan entre sí estrechas relaciones y en su conjunto ponen de relieve una cierta manera de entender y…

2018

35 years of the Esteve Foundation

35 years sharing science. It is the spirit of this non-profit institution, which was founded in 1983, with the aim of building bridges between researchers of different scientific disciplines. It is now celebrating its 35 year anniversary, having expanded its scope of action to other areas, such as training and dissemination. The Esteve Foundation wishes…

36th edition – Barcelona, September, 20-21 2018

When speaking in front of an audience, only 15% of what actually reaches the public corresponds to the spoken message. In contrast, more than half the information retained by listeners lies in nonverbal communication. Indeed, the lecturer’s posture, gesture and eye gaze tell a lot more on how he/she feels than mere words. These courses…

2018

7th edition – Málaga, June, 20-21 2018

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method in line with the directives of the creation the European Higher Education Area and the approach of the Bologna Declaration, which require that the teaching-learning process facilitates the development of skills, so that students are more autonomous in managing learning. This teaching-learning process focusing on the student, underlines  self-directed…

21st edition – Valencia, April, 4-5 2018

If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 4th and 5th of April 2018, the Esteve Foundation organized in Valencia with FISABIO a new edition of the Training Seminar How…

Polipatologías

GONZALO CASINO / @gonzalocasino / gcasino@escepticemia.com / www.escepticemia.com Sobre los problemas para entender y atender a los pacientes con varias patologías En los ensayos clínicos, los pacientes que tienen alguna otra enfermedad además de la que se estudia son descartados sistemáticamente. Hay sin duda razones científicas de peso para excluir a estos enfermos complejos, pero este descarte es muy revelador…

2018

6th edition – Barcelona, February, 22-23 2018

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method in line with the directives of the creation the European Higher Education Area and the approach of the Bologna Declaration, which require that the teaching-learning process facilitates the development of skills, so that students are more autonomous in managing learning. This teaching-learning process focusing on the student, underlines…

2018