PRESENTING MEDICAL DATA & MEDICAL WRITING
9-10th April 2010, Belgrade (Serbia)

This two-day training workshop has been specially developed for scientists and medical professionals in the healthcare system, academia and clinical departments of the pharmaceutical industry. It aims to teach you how to prepare your research for presentations at scientific meetings and how to get your research published in peer-reviewed journals. It discusses in depth all the essential steps you will need...

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PRESENTING MEDICAL DATA AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS & MEDICAL WRITING

On Day 1 you will learn how to present your results in the most convincing way, even at the most prestigious congresses – how to write abstracts, how to make effective posters, and how to prepare and deliver oral presentations. On Day 2 we will examine the structure of manuscripts, how the peer-review process works and how to write effectively in English – for example, what makes text easy to read, using paragraphs to get your message across, use and misuse of jargon and medical terminology – and what to do when you receive the referees’ comments. The aim of this part of the course is to provide professional support to authors and would-be authors of medical papers. Participants will acquire up-to-date information on the requirements for submitting articles, publication structure and common problems encountered by authors, plus some of the “tricks of the trade” that professional writers use.

Each of the two days consists of lectures in the morning followed by breakout sessions in the afternoon. In these breakout sessions, participants will work in small groups on real-life practical tasks designed to reinforce the messages contained in the lectures. In these small group sessions you will work with our experienced trainers in an interactive manner.

By completing the course you will be able to:

Write a structured abstract which meets the congress requirements and at the same time captures the critical points of your study, describes your results clearly and consistently, and raises interest
Write a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal so that it has the best chance of being accepted by the editor and referees.
Write a covering letter
Create a poster that meets the standards set for scientific presentations, that will guide the audience through your study with a focus on the most important results and will draw their attention to you and your work
Prepare and deliver a well-timed, successful oral presentation that will cover your study and tell your story in a comprehensive, logical and interesting way, with well-structured, well-balanced, clear slides
Critically review a publication, point out the pitfalls and to come up with ideas for an improved version.
Write a letter to an editor in response to your publication being turned down.

The morning sessions will consist of three lectures. In the afternoons you will take part in two workshops, which will show you how to apply the theoretical knowledge in practice. All participants will attend both of the two workshops on each day.

The trainers are researchers with many peer-reviewed publications, and professional medical writers, all with wide experience in data presentation at international meetings and writing scientific and medical papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Agenda

Day 1 – Presenting medical data at scientific meetings

08.00–08.20	Registration & morning coffee
08.20–08.30	Welcome & opening remarks
08.30–09.30	Lecture 1 – How to write an abstract: key elements, common issues.
09.30–09.45	Coffee break
09.45–10.45	Lecture 2 – How to make a scientific poster: structure, design, and data presentation.
10.45–11.00	Coffee break
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.
12.00–13.00	Lunch
13.00–17.00	Workshops (including coffee breaks):
	Workshop 1 – Prepare and present a poster
	Workshop 2 – Develop slides and deliver a short oral presentation

Day 2 – Medical Writing

08.00–08.15	Morning coffee
08.15-09.00	Lecture 1 – The elements of a paper: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion (IMRAD).
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.
10.00–10.15	Coffee break
10.15–11.00	Lecture 3 – Other types of writing (letters to the Editor, research grant applications, covering letters, response to reviewers , etc.).
11.00–11.15	Coffee break
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.
12.00–13.00	Lunch
13.00–17.00	Workshops (including coffee breaks): Workshop 1 – Review a manuscript, identify its faults and suggest improvements Workshop 2 – Write an abstract, discuss the covering letter and response to the referees’ comments
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.

Lokalizacja

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Belgrade

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