University of Basel - European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine (ECPM)

Description

Brush up your scientific and medical writing skills. Learn how to structure scientific papers and reports and write a clear and informative scientific text. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the strategic scientific and medical writing field and offers hands-on training in writing and analyzing scientific texts.

This course will cover:

• What is the correct strategic approach to writing successful documents
• How to convey a message to the target audience
• How to produce high-quality documents
• What are the requirements to reach a successful outcome
• Ethics of scientific writing
• Practical work with multiple exercise

Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Know key elements of good medical and scientific writing
• Critically appraise texts and identify elements of poor writing
• Convert some examples of poor writing to good scientific writing
• Reproduce the most important aspects of good medical and scientific writing
• Improve own texts

IMI Standards

• A predefined set of teaching objectives, leading to defined learning outcomes
• Assessment of the students' achievement in accordance with the agreed learning outcomes of the training offered
• A system for collecting, assessing and addressing feedback from learners, teachers, technical / administrative staff and programme / course / module managers
• Availability of appropriate and regularly reviewed reference material (e.g. published articles, links, book chapters, scripts, etc)
• Defined and transparent admission criteria
• Quality assurance of teaching staff
• Regular review of the QA/QC process and demonstration that the training is further developed in light of this review
• The facilities, infrastructure, leadership and competences available for the support of student learning
• University accreditation OR a system for approving, monitoring and reviewing the training offered