The
All India Medical Writers Association (AIMWA), a not-for-profit, soon to be
registered association of medical writers, conducted its first workshop on 20th
of June, 2008, at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO), Bangalore.
The
event was organized in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO),
the Indian Cooperative Oncology Network (ICON), and the National Institute of
Medical Statistics (NIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The local
organizers for the event were medical oncologists Dr K. Govind Babu representing
KMIO and Prof. Dr Purvish M Parikh representing both ICON and AIMWA. AIMWA is
indebted to the organizers for their valuable and enthusiastic efforts
especially to Prof Parikh for his contribution in organizing the logistics and
program handouts.
ICMR
conducted training on the Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI) and AIMWA
conducted training on Medical Writing. Overall, there were about 50 attendees,
most of these at the invitation of ICMR. However, the first delegates to
register had come because of the medical writing workshop announcement on the
AIMWA website (www.freewebs.com/aimwa).
Dr
Roopa Basrur, Senior Manager, Clinical Writing and Document Quality, Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals India Ltd, gave a brief introduction to AIMWA and spoke on
Medical Writing as a career option. NIMS/ICMR, represented by Dr Abha Rani
Aggarwal and Prof Arvind Pandey, among others, conducted training on CTRI.
Dr
Hetal Shah, Medical Writing and Clinical Research Consultant,
Ahmedabad conducted a workshop on poster presentation. A workshop on abstract
writing was conducted by Dr Sujata Shah, Head - Medical Publications, Group
sanofi-aventis, India. Each of these was a 2-hour session and was attended by
12-15 participants. About 50% of the participants were medical writers and the
others were oncologists and clinical research professionals.
At
both the workshops, there was good interaction and the response from the
participants during the assignments was enthusiastic. Feedback received
indicated that most participants were moderately to highly satisfied with the
workshops and would attend and recommend such workshops in future.
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Regards
Natasha
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