Scientific Writing made easy: a step by step guide
Overview
Scientific writing is often a difficult and arduous task for many students! This succinct step‐by‐Step guide to scientific writing breaks down the scientific writing process into easily digestible pieces, providing concrete examples that students can refer to when preparing a scientific manuscript. The course provides a high level training of key writing and analytical skills which are required to communicate complicated, scientific information to researchers, physicians and the general public. By increasing medical students and physicians exposure to the scientific writing process, we hope to better improve their writing skills.
This Activity for
- Other health care provider
- Respiratory Therapy
- Psychology
- Podiatry
- Physiotherapy
- Optometry
- Clinical Nutrition
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Dentistry and Related Specialties
- Resident / Fellow
- Physician
- Pharmacy
- Occupational Therapy
- Clinical Laboratory Sciences
- Non Health Care Provider
- Healthcare & Hospital Administration
- Health Education
What I will learn?
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe the process of medical writing for an international journal or writing a thesis from formulating a research question to manuscript publication.
- Understand study designs and which design to choose
- Summarize the important components of a standard original research article, including abstract, title and choosing keywords
- Select appropriate data bases, Boolean operators and keywords in order to perform an effective literature search
- Appreciate the importance of following ethics of medical writing and identify different forms of plagiarism
- How to prepare the manuscript for the final submission process,
- Understanding the editorial and peer review process
- Responding to the comments of the reviewers.
About Organizer
- Virtual Medical Academy
Additional items to the activity
| Optional Details | Type | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific Writing made easy: a step by step guide Certificate | Certificate | Free |