Lessons from Medicine for Training Professional Statisticians

Published in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 2010

Recommended citation: Gibbs, A.L. and Guimond, T. (2010). "Lessons from Medicine for Training Professional Statisticians." In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. https://iase-web.org/documents/papers/icots8/ICOTS8_6G1_GIBBS.pdf

Work with Tim Guimond. Considers the training of graduate students as statistical consultants through the lens of a model for training medical doctors and the many roles required in both professions.

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