Sven Deferme appointed training & events manager @ BeCRO
Upcoming trainings:
- Medical Writing, 04-05 June
- Introduction to statistics, 10-11 May
Check the training calendar.
| Why attend? |
This two-day course is intended for medical doctors, pharmaceutical professionals and researchers in the biomedical field who regularly need to write in English. The course provides practical guidelines that will help you improve your writing.
The course provides practical guidelines that will help you improve your writing. You will learn to diagnose writer skills and what techniques to apply in order to upgrade your writing to the expected standard. Attention will be given to the following items:
- accurate vocabulary (avoiding 'pharmaspeak', ethically correct wording, accurate wording),
- how to guide the reader through the text,
- the correct tense use in each section of the scientific article,
- reducing word count techniques (abstracts),
- language enrichment,
- reviewing and editing of a document,
- information structure in publications and manuscripts (IMRAD),
- designing and using tables and figures, and
- typical language problems in scientific writing.
The number of participants is strictly limited to 15!
Participants will be asked to send us a two-page text 2 weeks before the training start.
This course is not intended for native speakers of English!
| Program |
Day
1 |
|||
9h30 |
- |
10h00 |
Welcome coffee + registration |
10h00 |
- |
12h00 |
Items to consider before starting Appropriate vocabulary in scientific writing |
12h00 |
- |
13h00 |
Lunch |
13h00 |
- |
15h00 |
Information structure in sentences and paragraphs |
15h00 |
- |
15h30 |
Coffee break |
15h30 |
- |
17h30 |
Using the correct tenses and verbs in scientific articles |
| Day 2 | |||
08h30 |
- |
09h00 |
Welcome coffee |
09h00 |
- |
10h30 |
The scientific article: information structure and language advice for specific sections |
10h30 |
- |
11h00 |
Coffee break |
11h00 |
- |
12h30 |
Designing and using tables and figures |
12h30 |
- |
13h30 |
Lunch |
13h30 |
- |
15h30 |
Language enrichment, common language errors Recapitulation and questions |
| Who? |
The workshop will be given by Dr. Deferme. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium), Dr. Deferme has been working for several major pharmaceutical companies in the preclinical as well as in the clinical department.
Dr. Deferme launched PharmaXL in 2004 as a training center in order to fill the need for 'brain updates' in the pharmaceutical industry. The different workshops organized by PharmaXL have been attended by many medical and pharmaceutical professionals and students. Since 2005, PharmaXL has its own medical writing service which has been used by several European pharmaceutical companies over the years. This training is organized in cooperation with ECCRT.
| Where and when? |
This course will take place on June 4-5 and October 3-4, 2012 in the training facilities of ECCRT in Brussels, Belgium (Keizer Karellaan 576, 1082 Brussels).
| How much? |
students* |
€237.5 (VAT incl) |
academics/industry |
€950 (VAT incl) |
* Students pay only 25% of the total fee. Please provide us with a document signed by the dean of your faculty as proof.
Please ask for our special group rates!
This subscription fee covers for the registration, coffee breaks, lunches and course material. The subscription fee does not cover for the hotel and/or travel expenses.
| How to register? |
People who want to register for this course on medical writing and data presentation, please fill out the registration form.