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Why attend?

This 2-day course is intended for medical doctors, pharmaceutical professionals and researchers in the biomedical field who regularly need to interpret or write about data and statistical tests. The training will focus on types of study designs, followed by the basic principles involved in analyzing the data (descriptively and drawing inference). Finally, we will learn how to report the results in a correct manner. The theory will be illustrated by exercises which will mainly focus on the interpretation of the statistical analysis and correct reporting of the results. More detailed information on the content of the course can be found here.

After you have completed this training course, you will be able to easily interpret data published in literature and understand why certain statistical tests have been performed. You will be able to communicate with your statistician and you will understand the statistical design of clinical studies.

The number of participants is strictly limited to 12!

No prework is required for this training.

Preliminary program

Who?

The workshop will be given by Dr. Adriaens. After obtaining her PhD at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Dr. Adriaens has been working as a consultant for several major pharmaceutical companies in the preclinical as well as in the clinical department.

PharmaXL started 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.

Where and when?

This course will take place on November 19-20, 2009 in the Marriott Hotel in Ghent (Belgium). The city of Ghent is a small, cosy university town and is located at 60 km from Brussels, at a 45 minute taxi-drive or trainride (time schedule here) from the international airport of Brussels (Zaventem).

How much?

* 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 statistics please fill out the registration form here.