I wonder whether one ought to design a European project on
this? There are currently new calls for proposals for EU
Public Health Programmes. Any takers?
Judith
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:31:08 +0100 Gero Langer
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> Hello George,
>
> You wrote on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 at 11:17:41 PM:
> > Have you any other ideas regarding the lowering of the language barrier?
>
> I am working at the German Center for Evidence-Based Nursing and we offer
> a monthly working group for nurses at our university hospital where we
> lead them through the ebn steps by solving a clinical problem.
>
> To manage the foreign language barrier we have an online dictionary
> (http://dict.leo.org) at the background of our browser so that you could
> switch between the Pubmed and the dictionary session.
> For the barrier of the scientific language we do the same with a glossary
> of epidemiology terms (in German with English keywords at
> www.ebhc.de/glossar).
>
> But the language barrier is still a big problem - we could only show the
> nurses some tricks to manage it, to loose their fear and to discover the
> fun of finding studies according to their clinical problems.
>
> Best wishes,
> Gero Langer
>
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> Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
> Institute for Health and Nursing Science
> German Center for Evidence-Based Nursing
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