The Cochrane Collaboration and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the publisher of The Cochrane Library and Wiley Health Learning activities, have extended their partnership by launching a new health professional development resource called Cochrane Learning.
Under the Cochrane Learning umbrella, The Cochrane Collaboration and Wiley will deliver a suite of online, evidence-based resources designed to close the knowledge translation gap, to support health professionals as part of their continuing professional development and to improve patient care. All activities will be designed to meet the rigorous accreditation standards of the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) and will be based upon the high-quality evidence from The Cochrane Collaboration.
Activities from Cochrane Learning’s pilot program, Dr Cochrane, produced in collaboration with the Canadian Cochrane Centre, are now available from www.cochranelearning.com, and mark the beginning of this partnership. Dr Cochrane activities will continue to be published throughout this year and other educational resources will launch throughout 2014.
The Cochrane Collaboration is a global network of scientists, researchers, health policy-makers and consumer advocates that produces systematic reviews of healthcare evidence and the largest database of randomised controlled trials in the world.
More than 28,000 people in 120 countries contribute their time and expertise to a rigorous process of gathering, assessing, and synthesizing research to produce and update Cochrane Reviews. The results are then shared with practitioners, policy-makers and patients to help them make informed and effective choices.
