SA Press
My latest book "Our Speaker Today" will shortly be available (August 1st)
Our Speaker Today
A Guide to Effective Lecturing
by Allan Gaw
Publisher: SA Press (1 Aug 2010)ISBN-13: 978-0956324214
"Dr Allan Gaw has been lecturing and giving presentations for over 25 years and thinks that by now he might have learned a few secrets about how it should be done.
Having been to Medical School in the early 1980s he certainly gained a very good grounding on how it should not be done. In the last two and half decades he has, through observing the best and by sometimes painful trial and error, developed a simple and foolproof system for the preparation and delivery of a good lecture.
This book presents a distillation of that experience and will be invaluable to anyone having to prepare their first 'talks' as well as those who may have been lecturing for years but are still struggling to find it an enjoyable experience.
This is a book packed with practical advice and as the, often simple, secrets are revealed the reader will become convinced that it will never be so daunting again.
Allan Gaw, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FFPM, PGCert Med Ed is Director of Operations at the Glasgow Clinical Research Facility. He is the author or editor of 15 books mostly on the subjects of Clinical Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research, Lipid Metabolism and Clinical Trials."
My previous book "TRIAL by FIRE" is available and can be purchased below
TRIAL by FIRE
Lessons from the History of Clinical Trials
by Allan Gaw
£7.99 + p&p £2.00
Paperback: 100 pages
Publisher: SA Press (1 Sep 2009)
ISBN-10: 0956324207
ISBN-13: 978-0956324207
"What can we learn from the past that may be relevant to modern clinical research? In this book Dr Allan Gaw draws on the experience of two decades working in clinical trials to show how the past can illuminate the present and help us understand our current position. In a series of intriguing stories that take us from Babylon and Ancient Egypt, to Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries, and on to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and the US in the 60s and 70s, he demonstrates the origins of randomisation and blinding in clinical trials; the importance of consent, trust and codes of ethical practice; and the crucial importance of publication. And he shows us where it may have all begun."
Available for Order Now
£7.99 + p&p £2.00
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Reviews of 'TRIAL by FIRE'
"[In] this excellent little book… at the end of each chapter, a conclusion highlights precisely how the incidents of the past are linked to the practices of the present…"
"…anyone moving into a career in clinical research would find it an excellent introduction to why we do things in the way that we do"
Andrew Smith
Editor, CRFocus Oct 2009