Seminar asks:
"Can the public trust medical journals?"
Can the Public Trust Medical Journals? That's the central question at a seminar being held in Toronto by the relatively new online medical journal Open Medicine on Wednesday, November 21, from 6:30 to 7:30 at the George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
The two presenters should provide interesting answers to the question: The main presenter will be Richard Smith, former Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and author of The Trouble with Medical Journals (2006). The host for the event will be John Hoey, one of the founding editors of Open Medicine and former editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The seminar is free (though donations are encouraged) and participants are asked to register (space is limited)
Richard Smith is executive director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world and executive director of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe.
John Hoey is the former editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Readers of this blog will recall that Hoey and an associate were fired by the CMA, sparking a bitter controversy, out of which grew Open Medicine, a not-for-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed online medical journal, started by a group of former editors from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, along with colleagues from across Canada.
The two presenters should provide interesting answers to the question: The main presenter will be Richard Smith, former Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and author of The Trouble with Medical Journals (2006). The host for the event will be John Hoey, one of the founding editors of Open Medicine and former editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The seminar is free (though donations are encouraged) and participants are asked to register (space is limited)
Richard Smith is executive director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world and executive director of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe.
John Hoey is the former editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Readers of this blog will recall that Hoey and an associate were fired by the CMA, sparking a bitter controversy, out of which grew Open Medicine, a not-for-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed online medical journal, started by a group of former editors from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, along with colleagues from across Canada.
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