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Intensive Medical Writing Course - Learn how to write papers that get published
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3711-17-00-02There are no available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 19/05/2017
Date and time19.06.2017, at: 09:00 - 21.06.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats18
Course fee5,640.00 kr.
LecturersChristine Møller
ECTS credits3.10
Contact personChristine Møller    E-mail address: medicalmanuscripts@gmail.com
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Dates
19, 20 & 21 June 2017

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to do the following:
Understand medical writing conventions;
Write a well-structured manuscript and a convincing cover letter;
Remedy the most common errors in medical writing (grammar, spelling and punctuation);
Present numbers correctly;
Appreciate the importance of effective figures and tables;
Understand editorial procedures and the publication process.

Content
This course is in two parts. Part I is a half-day session for all participants. The emphasis here is on
how to avoid the most common errors of grammar and usage when writing papers in English, how
to prepare effective illustrations, and how to provide what editors like to receive. The
participants then split into two groups and attend either the Tuesday and Wednesday or the
Thursday and Friday full-day sessions. Part II focuses on writing clearly, correctly and concisely for
an international audience, style and vocabulary, punctuation, the IMRAD structure, presentation of
numbers, the publication process and the cover letter.
Participants: PhD students, and, if there are any vacant places, other researchers, who are writing
for publication in life-science journals.
Language
English
Form: Presentations, exercises, discussions, and evaluation of texts written by participants.
NOTE: All participants must bring eight copies of a 1–3 page text they have written in English.
This should not have been professionally edited.
ECTS credits: 3.1
Course Director: Christine Møller BA, Dip Ed / Medical Manuscripts /
medicalmanuscripts@gmail.com / 26 84 06 36
Presenters/Tutors
Part I
Christine Møller, Director, Medical Manuscripts; Assistant Editor, APMIS
Anne-Marie Engel, Director of Research, The Lundbeck Foundation; Formerly Journal
Administrator, Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine
Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts, Senior Scientist, Dept. of Growth & Reproduction, University of
Copenhagen; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Andrology
Part II
Christine Møller
Gevene Hertz PhD, Director, Perceptronics; Formerly Senior Editor and Technical Writer for BK
Medical
Joan Waddell BSc, PGCE, JW Projects
Stephen Gilliver BSc, MRes, PhD
Course Secretary: Christine Møller / medicalmanuscripts@gmail.com

Dates
Intensive Medical Writing I: 19, 20 & 21 June 2017

Course location
Panum
Admission to PhD students from Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served
basis and according to the rules in force.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrollment

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