Agenda (MEDICAL WRITING)
9th October 2010, Warsaw
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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 –reference management software |
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12.30–13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30–17.30 |
Workshops (including coffee breaks) Workshop 1 – Review a manuscript, identify its faults and suggest improvements Workshop 2 – Write an abstract, discuss the covering letter and respond to the referees’ comments |
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17.30–17.45 |
Closing remarks & certificates |
Workshop details
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.
Write an abstract; discuss the covering letter and respond to the referees’ comments
During the first part of the workshop, the groups will prepare an abstract from the provided manuscript and develop a covering letter for submission. 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 of how to deal with the referees’ comments received, after a manuscript has been submitted for publication.
The trainers are researchers with many peer-reviewed publications, and professional medical writers, all with wide experience in data presentation at international meetings and writing scientific and medical papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
CME points (punkty edukacyjne): 8.
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