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Medical Evidence Boot Camp
A limited number of journalists are selected to attend our Boot Camps. We reimburse up to $750 of travel expenses to Cambridge, provide your accommodation, and provide most meals to selected participants. One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists is the uncertainty of evidence in science, medicine, energy and environmental studies. Studies are hard to decipher, and sometimes appear to reach contradictory conclusions. But the public’s interest in health and science news, and the need for reliable information, is growing. To help journalists make sense of all this, we offer an intensive course, on how to evaluate scientific and medical evidence. We’ll explore how new drugs are tested, and look at how the FDA, the NIH and other agencies evaluate treatments, old and new. We’ll look at the rise of “evidence-based medicine” and why expensive care may not be good care. (Don’t be surprised to learn that a lot of what doctors do has little or no evidence to prove that it works.)
Schedule and Faculty
FellowsClick here to see a list of Boot Camp Fellows.
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Four Sessions - News and Numbers: the Nuts and Bolts of Medical Research
Reporting Health Risks and Medical Statistics: A Practical Guide
Genetic Privacy in the Era of “Personalized Medicine”
Serious Problems with Unsafe Drugs and Medical Devices
Cancer Screening: the Clash of Intuition and Medical Evidence
Statistics and Their Use in Medical Journals
Lessons to Improve Our Reporting on Evidence – Analysis of 1,600 Stories Over 6 Years
Panel Discussion: Medical Error and its Aftermath
Social, Policy, Economic and Practice Implications
of Advertising in Medicine