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Medical Writing
A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers
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- A comprehensive and accessible guide to writing for all medical professions across all specialties
- Specific guidelines for review articles, case reports, books and book chapters, grant proposals, research proposals, and clinical study reports
- Fully updated to include coverage of open access journal, peer review fraud, parachute studies, sharing clinical data, and more.
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This book is a clear and comprehensive guide that assists readers in translating observations, ideas, and research into articles, reports, or book chapters ready for publication. For both researchers and practicing physicians, skills in medical writing are essential. Dr. Robert B. Taylor, a distinguished leader in academic medicine, uses a clear, conversational style throughout this book to emphasize the professional and personal enrichment that writing can bring. The text includes in depth instructions for writing and publishing: review articles, case reports, editorials and letters to the editor, book reviews, book chapters, reference books, research protocols, grant proposals, and research reports. This third edition is additionally fully updated to include the intricacies of medical writing and publishing today, with new coverage of: open access, pay to publish and predatory journals, peer review fraud, publication bias, parachute studies, public domain images, and phantom authors. Loaded with practical information, tips to help achieve publication, and real world examples, Medical Writing can improve skills for clinicians, educators, and researchers, whether they are new to writing or seasoned authors.
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Basic Writing Skills
Medical writing: getting started and getting finished, technical issues in medical writing, what’s special about medical writing, how to write a review article, case reports, editorials, letters to the editor, book reviews, and other publication models, writing book chapters and books, how to write a research protocol, how to write a grant proposal, how to write a report of a research study, getting your writing published, back matter, authors and affiliations, oregon health & science university, portland, usa, about the author.
Robert B. Taylor, M.D.
Department of Family Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Portland, Oregon, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title : Medical Writing
Book Subtitle : A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers
Authors : Robert B. Taylor
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70126-4
Publisher : Springer Cham
eBook Packages : Medicine , Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information : Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN : 978-3-319-70125-7 Published: 09 January 2018
eBook ISBN : 978-3-319-70126-4 Published: 13 December 2017
Edition Number : 3
Number of Pages : XVI, 420
Number of Illustrations : 8 b/w illustrations
Topics : General Practice / Family Medicine , Primary Care Medicine , Medicine/Public Health, general
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Writing research papers and using reporting guidelines. Resources. IMRaD. Writing style. Research to Publication. rtop.bmj.com. Core guidance on writing papers. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals.
Clinical research, also known as medical research, refers to research whose purpose is to shed light on human health. Medical research aims towards preventing and treating diseases.
This exercise will help you focus the research question, clarify which outcomes you want to evaluate and assess if your study design and data are appropriate.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research and review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of...
1. Full-Length Methodology Research (Original articles) 2. Letters/Rapid Communications/Short Communications 3. Case Studies/Case report 4. Review Papers • Self-evaluate your work: Is it sufficient for a full article? Or are your results so thrilling that they need to be revealed as soon as possible?
Introduction. Medical science consists to a large degree of discussion and exchange of experience and observations. These may occur via direct dialog among scientists, presentations at conferences, and by means of scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.
PubMed Central ® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
Structure of a medical research paper: key content elements, writing tips and examples of reporting guidelines from the EQUATOR website. Indicate the focus of the paper and include important relevant ‘keywords’ to allow identification of the study through electronic searches. Be concise, precise, and informative.
This chapter gives an overview of medical research endeavors, including the pre-eminent role of empiricism, the dominance of uncertainties, broad steps, and the essential ingredients of good...
• Understand more about the art of medical writing, includ-ing motivation, conceptualization, composition, and frustrations • Know how to use different models of medical writing, such as the review article, report of clinical research, and more • Recognize how to get a manuscript published • Realize that writing can be fun