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Medical Symposium To Bring Leading Medical Journalists To UNC-CH

After October 15, 1997 -- $150

Symposium Registration

To register, make you $125 check payable to the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication and mail to:

1997 Medical News Reporting Symposium
UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communcation
Campus Box 3365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365

For more information, call (919) 962-4078

To make hotel reservations, call The Carolina Inn at (919) 933-2001 and ask for room reservations for the 1997 Medical News Reporting Conference. Room reservations deadline is October 24.

Please mail the following:

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attend the November 14 Welcome Reception and Dinner (included in price of registration)

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Objectives

During the symposium, you'll learn how to:

• Analyze medical statistics to separate the news from the trash.
• Quickly interpret often conflicting and confusing medical source materials.
• Start your own medical news radio show.
• Improve you medical television news reporting skills.
• Use the medical Internet to your advantage.
• Rapidly develop solid medical news story ideas.
• Engage physicians and other healthcare providers to help you do your job better.
• Utilize information available through pharmaceutical and other medical industry sources.

Faculty

• George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent.

• Joe and Teresa Graedon, hosts of the syndicated radio show People's Pharmacy and the newspaper column by the same name.

• Victor Cohn, former Washington Post medical reporter and author of the basic text for journalists for interpreting medical statistics, News & Numbers.

  
  

• Leslie Lang, medical journalist for Reuters Health Information Services and former medical editor of Med/NIWS, a nationally syndicated television news service.

• Additional faculty to be announced.

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