Students contributing to the impact of Cochrane

Students and teachers play an important  role in Cochrane. They are involved in educating the next generation of healthcare professionals about evidence-based medicine,  directly contributing to a global effort of identifying health evidence, to translating Cochrane evidence in 14 different languages. Hanna Martikainen conducts PhD research at Paris Diderot University on the French-language translation of Cochrane Systematic Review abstracts. Having previously worked as a translation coordinator and post-editor forCochrane France, she now teaches a class in post-editing medical LSP at the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies and Applied Languages (EILA) at Paris Diderot University. During the past academic year (2016-2017), second year Master ’s students in specialized translation have had a unique opportunity to contribute to theFrench translation project by post-editing machine-translated Cochrane abstracts and Plain Language Summaries. The project has been renewed for the coming academic year and the students have shared their experience here.  Marie, Ang èle, Margarita, Pierre, and Pauline described the profiles and general background of students in their second year Master ’s degree in specialized translation: " We are a group of 20 students from the ILTS (Industrie de la Langue et Traduction Sp écialisée) Master’s degree at Paris Diderot University This course is open to students with prior translation experience in which is the case for most of us, but al...
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