The Spectrum of Medical Writing and Editing

*This course will be offered next in Summer 2022 quarter. Enrollment will be available online May 6th, 2022.*
Building upon the Introduction to Medcial Writing and Editing course, this course reinforces the basics of writing and editing scientific and medical materials, and provides an overview of the careers available in Medical Writing.  The 5 week course Introduction to Medical Writing and Editing (FPM-40654) must be completed prior to enrolling into The Spectrum of Medical Writing and Editing.

Topics include:

• Definitions of scientific and medical writing and editing and the difference between scientific writing and science writing

• Scientific publications and the IMRAD format

• A review of essential grammar including plurals, correct and preferred usage and jargon

• Punctuation, hyphenation, and capitalization

• Inclusive language, age and sex referents

• Misplaced modifiers

• Abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, and Greek letters

• Reference styles

• Professional organizations

All reading will be scientific or medical in nature. Specific content to be edited will be exercises from the AMA Manual of Style.  Command of the English language and prior knowledge of medical terminology are essential for this course.  This course will benefit students who are seeking entry-level positions in the writing and editing of scientific and medical materials.

Course Number: FPM-40653
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Medical Writing

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6/21/2022 - 9/3/2022

$495

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• SECTION ID:

  164460

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Lafferty, Hope

  Hope comes to medical writing from the writing side, not the medical side—although she did begin her career in the clinical space as a psychotherapist. Her work has always centered around helping people communicate better.  Beginning in the mid-1990s, she worked as an authors’ editor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She honed her skills as a grant writer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She also pursued certifications in medical and life science writing and editing from the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS), the University of Chicago Medical Writing/Editing Certificate, and the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). Since going out on her own in 2009, she has applied her skills across the ph...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers 2nd
  by Mimi Zeiger
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780071345446

  AMA MANUAL OF STYLE 11th
  by The JAMA Network Editors
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780190246556

  How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper 8th
  by Gastel/Day
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781440842801

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 6/25/2022.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  6/21/2022 - 9/3/2022
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.