Health professionals improve their manuscript writing skills
Ten health professionals had the chance to improve their manuscript writing skills in a recent workshop with renowned biochemist Prof Robert Glew.
The workshop, similar to one Glew ran in Hobart and Launceston in March 2011, provided an opportunity for clinical investigators, other health professionals, academic staff, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to complete a research manuscript for submission to publish in a scientific journal.
The workshop focussed on the structure, organisation and content of the various elements of a research paper in the biomedical sciences.
David Ward, a PhD student studying the effect of later-life education on cognitive ageing, attended the 8-day workshop.
“[Prof Glew] reduced the ambiguity and 'fear' associated with writing a publishable manuscript from scratch, by deconstructing each individual element and demonstrating how straightforward writing a scientific paper really can be.”
“Robert's enthusiasm and expertise made the classes engaging, informative, and were very relevant in a practical sense."
Lisa Jarman and David Ward attended the writing workshop
Many of the participants in last year’s workshop subsequently had their work published in leading journals.
Professor Glew has taught biochemistry and conducted research in the area of maternal and child health and nutrition in Nigeria, the Republic of Niger, Ghana, Cameroon and other West African countries for 35 years.
He has directed the manuscript-writing program for the past 15 years to faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and at various teaching hospitals and universities in sub-Saharan Africa, India, Taiwan, Turkey and other parts of the world.
In 2009 he coauthored with Dr Miriam Rosenthal a textbook for medical students entitled Medical Biochemistry: Human Metabolism in Health and Disease.
He has served for 17 years as a consultant to the US National Board of Medical Examiners.