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Posts Tagged ‘Kessler’

MIT’s Medical Evidence Boot Camp

by Chris Mooney

MedEv09All week this week, I’ll be attending this Knight program “boot camp” on medical evidence reporting, with a lot of big speakers like former FDA chief David Kessler and New England Journal of Medicine editor in chief Jerome Kassirer. This may inspire lots of great blogging in real time from the sessions–or, I may be so busy learning about things like relative risk that I will be more or less silent. Remains to be seen.

But in any event, this is a good time to plug the Knight science journalism boot camps, which are really extraordinary–I’ve been wanting to attend one for some time, and this year I get to attend two (the next one, in March, is on food). So check it out….

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December 1st, 2009 8:58 AM Tags: epidemiology, Kassirer, Kessler, knight fellowship, medicine, MIT
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