Agenda (MEDICAL WRITING)
18th June 2010, Warsaw
MEDICAL WRITING
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08.00–08.15 |
Registration and morning coffee |
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08.15–09.00 |
Lecture 1 – The elements of a paper: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion (IMRAD) |
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09.00–10.00 |
Lecture 2 – Writing in English: Common problems, what makes text difficult/easy to read, using paragraphs effectively, jargon and technical terminology |
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10.00–10.15 |
Coffee break |
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10.15–11.00 |
Lecture 3 – How to write abstracts and summaries, letters to the Editor, and covering letters |
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11.00–11.15 |
Coffee break |
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11.15–12.00 |
Lecture 4 – The editorial process: How a journal treats submitted articles, the peer-review process, why papers are rejected, what to do if your article is rejected/accepted, and how to response to reviewers |
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12.00–12.30 |
Lecture 5 - Managing bibliographies effectively |
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12.30–13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.00–17.30 |
Workshops (including coffee breaks) Workshop 1 – Review a manuscript, identify its faults and suggest improvements |
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17.30–17.45 |
Closing remarks & certificates |
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Workshop 1 – Review a manuscript (provided), identify its faults and suggest improvements
Participants will be divided into small subgroups. During the first part of the workshop each group will be given a manuscript to study and will be expected to highlight its strengths and weaknesses. With guidance from the workshop leader, participants will then suggest how to improve the manuscript. During the last 45 min each group will present their findings about the manuscript and the workshop leader will record and correlate the groups’ findings for a final summary.
Workshop 2 – Write an abstract, discuss the covering letter and response to the referees’ comments
Participants will work in their small groups. During the first part of the workshop, the groups will prepare an abstract from the provided manuscript and develop a covering letter to accompany the manuscript when submitted to the journal. The groups will then come together for a guided discussion of their work. The last 25 minutes of the workshop will be a guided group discussion (all groups combined) of how to deal with the referees’ comments that the authors of the paper received, when they submitted their manuscript for publication. The referees’ comments will be projected onto a screen for the general discussion.
CME points (punkty edukacyjne): 8.
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