The Amazing Language of Medicine
Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories
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Chronology: The Evolution of Family Practice as a Specialty in the United States
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Family Medicine: Fifty Years of Caring for America
In its early years, the specialty of family medicine had originated within the lifetimes of its practitioners. As family medicine celebrates its 50th anniversary, the founding generation has retired, and today...
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Chronology: The Evolution of Family Practice as a Specialty in the United States
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Family Medicine: Fifty Years of Caring for America
In its early years, the specialty of family medicine had originated within the lifetimes of its practitioners. As family medicine celebrates its 50th anniversary, the founding generation has retired, and today...
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Basic Writing Skills
Basic writing skills begin with idea development, which includes creative musing and accumulation of data. Before putting words on paper, the careful medical writer plans the structure of the article or chapte...
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Technical Issues in Medical Writing
Medical writing shares some technical issues with other scientific publications. These include the use of tables, presenting data in some sort of list, which may contain a number of columns. Figures can enrich...
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How to Write a Review Article
The review article, often the first effort of the beginning writer, remains a fundamental model for the medical writer. Thus, the aspiring author needs to know who writes, who publishes, and who reads review a...
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Writing Book Chapters and Books
Some medical writers choose to write book chapters or even edit or write a book of their own. Writing a book chapter is a lot like writing a review article, except that it generally requires an invitation from...
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How to Write a Grant Proposal
Writing a grant proposal is a special skill. There is a wide variety of grant funding sources, both government and private. Each will have its specific instructions for preparing the grant application, but the...
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Getting Your Writing Published
An article really isn’t finished until you see it in print or online in a respected journal. This chapter tells how to choose the best journal for your article and the technical requirements for submission. Na...
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Getting Started in Medical Writing
This Chapter describes early considerations in medical writing, including why we write and why we often don’t. Here you will learn about writing as history, the role of reading for a writer, and writing as cre...
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Medical Writing: Getting Started and Getting Finished
Moving from an idea to a publishable article or chapter involves prewriting, collecting and organizing data, finding time to write a first draft, and then undertaking several revisions, each making the writing...
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What’s Special About Medical Writing?
Medical writing differs from other types of writing in several ways. Most is written to be published in scholarly journals, which vary considerably in their influence in the scientific community, as measured b...
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Case Reports, Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Book Reviews, and Other Publication Models
Medical writing offers a wide variety of models. In addition to research reports, review articles, and book chapters, there are case reports, editorials, letters to the editor, and book reviews. Other, more sp...
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How to Write a Research Protocol
A research protocol is the road map you will follow in writing a grant proposal and carrying out your research. This chapter provides a long list of elements that may be included, such as study design, safety ...
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How to Write a Report of a Research Study
Preparing a report of a research trial is a special type of medical writing. The experienced author of research reports follows the IMRAD model: introduction, methods, results, and discussion, although this sc...
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Prediction of new brain metastases after radiosurgery: validation and analysis of performance of a multi-institutional nomogram
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) without whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) for brain metastases can avoid WBRT toxicities, but with risk of subsequent distant brain failure (DBF). Sole use of number of metastases...
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Chronology: The Evolution of Family Practice as a Specialty in the United States
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