MedicalExpress Year Three: SciELO and Sports Medicine Highlights

Abstract

As we launch MedicalExpress Year Three, the journal begins its life in SciELO: within the next few weeks, our entire collection will become available at www.scielo.org. For Brazilian authors this means a reasonable to good QUALIS rating. All the articles included in this issue (nominally dated February, 2016) have been progressively uploaded to our site between December 15, 2015 and January 16, 2016. They may be read and downloaded from http:// www.medicalexpress.net.br/summary. Publication doesn’t get much faster out there, in Brazil or even worldwide. We would like to draw your attention to two studies in sports medicine: Cunha et al. offer a very useful report on the effects of a training program for elementary school teachers who do not have formal training in Physical Education, but must minister PE to their pupils. These teachers were submitted to a few weeks of training for specifics in Physical Education. Results monitored in their pupils were compared for those trained by teachers not