Description
This course teaches what clinicians need to know about medical writing and publishing. It is for the health professional who sees patients and also wants to contribute to the medical literature, as well as for the assistant professor aspiring to promotion. It is written from the viewpoint of the clinician seeking the personal enrichment that writing can bring.

Readers learn how to translate observations and ideas from practice into written form and eventually into print. The gudie for this journey is Dr. Robert B. Taylor, a distinguished leader in academic family medicine.

With a clear, conversational writing style, Dr. Taylor shares what he has learned—what works and what doesn’t—through the course of publishing 22 medical books and several hundred papers. He draws from his successes (and some failure) as he tells helpful ways to write review articles, case reports, editorials, letters to the editor, book reviews, book chapters, reference books, and research papers.

Loaded with practical advice and real-world examples, this course benefits readers who are new to medical writing and those who have authored a few articles or chapters and want to improve their skills.

Level: Advanced
ISBN: 0387222499
ISBN-13: 9780387222493
Format: Paperback, 266pp
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Pub date: 2004

Contents
Dedication
Preface
About This Book
Chapter 1. Getting Started in Medical Writing
Chapter 2. Basic Writing Skills
Chapter 3. From Page One to the End
Chapter 4. Technical Issues in Medical Writing
Chapter 5. What’s Special About Medical Writing?
Chapter 6. How to Write a Review Article
Chapter 7. Case Reports, Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Book Reviews, and Other Publication Models
Chapter 8. Writing Book Chapters and Books
Chapter 9. How to Write a Report of Clinical Study
Chapter 10. Getting your Writing Published
Appendix 1. Glossary of Terms Used in Medical Writing
Appendix 2. Commonly Used Proofreader’s Marks
Appendix 3. Commonly Used Medical Abbreviations
Appendix 4. Normal Laboratory Values for Adult Patients
Index

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 3
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1070 Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
1090 Media skills
1130 Verbal communication skills, presentations
1140 Written communication skills, publishing
9030 Evaluation and application of research
9040 Proposal development, grant application
9060 Research development and design