Agenda (PRESENTING MEDICAL DATA & MEDICAL WRITING)
9-10th April 2010, Belgrade (Serbia)
Day 1 – Presenting medical data at scientific meetings
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08.00–08.20 |
Registration & morning coffee |
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08.20–08.30 |
Welcome & opening remarks |
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08.30–09.30 |
Lecture 1 – How to write an abstract: key elements, common issues. |
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09.30–09.45 |
Coffee break |
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09.45–10.45 |
Lecture 2 – How to make a scientific poster: structure, design, and data presentation. |
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10.45–11.00 |
Coffee break |
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11.00–12.00 |
Lecture 3 – How to prepare an oral presentation: selecting the content, slide structure, design, common problems, do’s and don’ts. |
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12.00–13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00–17.00 |
Workshops (including coffee breaks): |
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Workshop 1 – Prepare and present a poster |
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Workshop 2 – Develop slides and deliver a short oral presentation |
Day 2 – Medical Writing
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08.00–08.15 |
Morning coffee |
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08.15-09.00 |
Lecture 1 – The elements of a paper: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion (IMRAD). |
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09.00–10.00 |
Lecture 2 – Writing in English: Common problems, what makes text difficult/easy to read, using paragraphs effectively, jargon and technical terminology. |
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10.00–10.15 |
Coffee break |
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10.15–11.00 |
Lecture 3 – Other types of writing (letters to the Editor, research grant applications, covering letters, response to reviewers , etc.). |
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11.00–11.15 |
Coffee break |
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11.15–12.00 |
Lecture 4 – The editorial process: How a journal treats submitted articles, the peer-review process, why papers are rejected, what to do if your article is rejected/accepted, publishing strategy. |
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12.00–13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00–17.00 |
Workshops (including coffee breaks): |
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17.00–17.15 |
Closing remarks & certificates |
LEADERS
John Richard Carpenter, PhD
Dr Carpenter has a PhD in Pharmacology and spent 18 years as Lecturer in Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manchester in the UK. Since leaving academia Dr Carpenter has been a medical writer and medical communications specialist, now working as a freelance consultant. In this role he has worked with all the major global pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of therapeutic areas, developing and writing, for example, educational material, papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals, reviews, newsletters, and slide presentations for symposia. He is a member of the European Medical Writers' Association (EMWA), having served on the Executive Committee and now being a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee. Dr Carpenter was a member of the group that in 2005 developed the EMWA guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed publications. He has written chapters on pharmacology in several text books and is co-author of A Dictionary of Pharmacology and Allied Topics. For many years Dr Carpenter has been developing and delivering training workshops for the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals. Topics include pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, making and delivering slide presentations, and medical writing.
Elizabeth (Liz) Wager BSc, MSc
Liz Wager is a freelance medical writer, editor, and trainer. Before setting up her own company, Sideview (in 2001), she worked for Janssen Cilag, GlaxoWellcome, and Blackwell Scientific Publications. She chairs COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics) and is a member of the ethics committees of the BMJ and WAME (the World Association of Medical Editors). She helped develop the Good Publication Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical companies, the EMWA guidelines for medical writers, Wiley-Blackwell’s Best Practice on Publication Ethics, COPE’s Best Practice for journal editors, the WHO standards for trial registration, and CONSORT for abstracts. She has run workshops on writing, publication strategy and publication ethics for doctors, writers and editors on five continents. She is the author of books on publication strategy and peer review (Getting Research Published: an A to Z of Publication Strategy, Radcliffe Publishing 2005 – second edition due March 2010; How to Survive Peer Review, BMJ Books 2001) and has published many papers and book chapters. She acts as a peer reviewer for BMJ, JAMA, Journal of Medical Ethics, Learned Publishing, Medical Journal of Australia, and PLoS Medicine, and is a Visiting Fellow of the UK Cochrane Centre.
Sue Palujuoma MSc, RSA Cert TEFLA
Sue is a consultant and professional proofreader for specialists writing for scientific publication and works with researchers and postgraduates in the preparation of research articles. Sue has 20 years teaching experience in academic writing for professionals. Before becoming a teacher, she was a geoscience research student at Leeds and Oxford Universities in the UK, and then an Editor for Elsevier Advanced Technology Group in Oxford. Sue moved into teaching after working as a volunteer teaching science professionals in Nicaragua in 1990. Since 2000, she has worked solely with writing scientific English, both teaching specialist courses for postgraduates (Writing Scientific English) and working as a linguistic consultant and proofreader. Since 2002, Sue has taught on the Scientific Presentation Course, a compulsory course for medical postgraduates, at the Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University: in February 2010, the first Scientific Presentation Course was delivered in Leon, Nicaragua. Sue holds lectures, seminars, and workshops for many organisations, including the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, Centre for Clinical Research, Västerås; Health Authority in Uppsala; and, senior surgeons at Uppsala University Hospital. The focus of her work is on organising texts and sentence structuring, including short cuts for removing redundant phrases to increase effectiveness in presenting scientific work.
