PhD courses at University of Copenhagen

Intensive Medical Writing
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3711-16-00-03	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 23/05/2016

Date and time	20.06.2016, at: 09:00 - 24.06.2016, at: 16:00
Regular seats	18
Course fee	5,640.00 kr.
Lecturers	Christine Møller
ECTS credits	3.10

Contact person	Christine Møller E-mail address: medicalmanuscripts@gmail.com

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND 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. 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 as clearly, correctly and concisely as possible for an international audience. The IMRAD structure, style and vocabulary, punctuation, presentation of numbers, the publication process and the cover letter will be discussed. 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 evaluations 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; 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: 20, 23, 24 June 2016 Course location Panum Registration: Please register before 23 May 2016 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