Medicine and the Media - a Synergistic Combination?

Abstract

As second year medical students, we participated in an interdisciplinary journalism project which examined the links between fishmeal and fish farming industries in various parts of the world. Through this experience, we were able to make connections between the fields of journalism and medicine by examining the similarities and differences in terms of information gathering and knowledge translation. We would like to direct readers’ attention to the final product of this project, titled “The fish you don’t know you eat”, which includes a webpage and two short films that aired on NBC Nightly News.