Spina Bifida Global Learning Collaborative: Educating the next generation of clinicians, researchers, and advocates.
Nienke P Dosa, Yakob S Ahmed, Ann Alriksson-Schmidt, Heidi Castillo, Silvana Contepomi, Mary M Locastro, Jan Koning, George Koutsouras, Elly Kutwa, Anjali Mahorta, Shade MacFarland, Ann-Marie Öhrvall, Patricia O'Neill, Anneloes Overvelde, Marie Peny-Dahlstrand, Andrea Shaw, Jessica Stockman, Zulma Tovar-Spinoza, Jonathan Castillo
PMID 38143399WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes the launch of a global learning collaborative for spina bifida education.
It lists open-source training resources and profiles five existing programs in Ethiopia, Sweden, Argentina, and Ecuador. It reports no patient outcomes or evidence of treatment effectiveness.
What this paper is
This is a descriptive report of an educational initiative and a review of existing global health curricula for spina bifida care. It describes the launch of a learning collaborative and lists five example programs and open-source resources. It reports no patient outcomes, no intervention effects, and no comparative data, so there is nothing here to change clinical practice based on evidence of efficacy.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the description of these educational programs or the list of resources as evidence that they improve patient health outcomes. The paper reports no data on the effectiveness of any intervention.