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[...]... the author’s point of view, and these principles are of little help to junior doctors, who are not in a position to argue when seniors demand to be included on the list of authors Usually they have no choice but to add the name, even though the new ‘author’ contributed little or nothing One useful technique is to agree on the number and role of the co-authors before 7 – THE A Z OF MEDICAL WRITING the. .. of the mundane At the same time try to make sense of it all What’s new? What’s interesting? What would the readers like to hear about? • After the conference, decide on a message Lack of data is rarely the problem; the difficulty is how to order it As with all types of writing, start with the basics: construct a 12 word message from the conference, then go through the usual stages (see process of writing) ... As a general rule, the greater the number of coauthors, the greater the problems The manuscript over which you have been sweating for months is torn apart by others, who believe that they are failing if they are not pumping out as many criticisms as they can think of The poor author is then left, manuscript and confidence in tatters, with a pile of alternative suggestions, many of them conflicting You... you to write the report (see commissioning) Which publication and what kind of audience? What 27 – THE A Z OF MEDICAL WRITING format? Is there an example of the kind of conference report they like (and perhaps one they don’t)? • At the conference, just soak up the information Don’t just listen to the proceedings, but look at notice boards, exhibitions and anything else that takes your fancy These could... of See books, writing of chapters in 19 – THE A Z OF MEDICAL WRITING Checking facts This is important Often it makes little substantive difference to the main thesis (Mr William Browne will have been sacked from his prestigious post regardless of the fact that you have left the ‘e’ off his name and have called him Mr Brown), but those who know will lose confidence in the rest of your writing – and... the preferred style in medical journals, most other publications style it Aids Both are right, within their contexts (see style guides) Action lists These are beginning to take over from the more traditional minutes as the preferred way of recording the activities of a committee They are based on the principle that recording the decisions is fairly straightforward; the hard thing is ensuring that they... Hardly a good return on the huge effort you made The real point about writing books is that, like mountains, they are there Some of us cannot resist the challenge; but it’s hardly rational behaviour Books, writing of chapters in One of the great advantages of multi-authored books is that they meet the huge demand for authorship But even single chapters require a major investment of time – a week’s work... publications run writing competitions, often because they are an excellent way of finding new talent If you want to break into these markets, watch out for them and enter Even if you do not win, it will bring your writing to the attention of an editor, and this could be the start of a mutually beneficial relationship Compromise See negotiating changes Computers, writing on One of the great drawbacks of computers... be the director of human resources The report will consist of one sheet of A4 The first draft will be completed tomorrow, and revised the following day The writing will be considered successful when staff get issued with their regulation socks and sandals.’ A useful trick is to make sure that others, such as bosses or coauthors, who may subsequently want to comment on your piece of 17 – THE A Z OF MEDICAL. .. mean a period of apprenticeship within medical writing The levels of pay are likely to be less than one would expect as a doctor For further information contact doctors who are already working in these fields Case notes Doctors are writing these all the time, yet they are difficult to do – and are often done badly Tell the story, so that one week later (the next doctor) or five years later (the lawyers) . with patients on the one hand, and meet the expectations of their peers for horrendously prolix prose on the other. Although they will have had no formal training on writing since they were 16, they will. company, delivering hundreds of courses on writing to doctors and other health profes- sionals. He is a fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, organiser of the BMJ’s annual short course. alt="" THE A-Z OF MEDICAL WRITING AtoZprel.qxd 22/02/00 13:49 Page i Tim Albert learnt the long words studying psychology and the short ones as a Daily Mirror trainee. He then worked for the broadsheets and