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Effective hands-on teaching strategy on participants’ confidence in medical writing and publishing: a before-after study
No full textProficiency in medical writing is crucial for disseminating reports of medical studies. The impact of workshops in this regard on participants' confidence is a subject of debate. We assessed the impact of a hands-on workshop on participants' confidence in medical writing. Participants of a 2-day “learning-by-doing” workshop held at McMaster University participated in this before-after study. We used a unique, reliable and valid tool comprising two domains of confidence in medical writing and using English language before and after receiving the educational intervention
Evaluating the Teaching Strategies and Impact of Medical Writing and Publishing Workshops on Scholarly Productivity: Moving Toward Creating Evidence and Standard Tools in Medical Journalology
No full textBackground: In the absence of full-term courses on medical writing and publishing in health-related graduate programs, short-term sessions, including workshops, play an important role in educating medical researchers. This dissertation deepens our understanding of the current related literature, moving towards creating evidence and standard tools in medical journalology.
Method: The first paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis of 45 articles addressing the impact of such workshops. The second article is another systematic review of 30 articles addressing the content and teaching strategies used to transfer medical writing knowledge to participants. The third article is a meta-synthesis of 17 articles with qualitative data addressing the experiences of participants in such workshops. The fourth paper reports on devising the first trustworthy measurement tool to evaluate confidence in medical writing and publishing. Finally, the fifth paper reports on the effect of a hands-on workshop on participants’ confidence in writing a standard medical article.
Results: The findings included: 1- The included studies were generally small, with questionable validity, and inconclusive regarding the effects of such training both as individual articles and in the aggregate. 2- The standard structure of medical articles, using optimal English language for writing, publication ethics, and tips on how to improve the chances of publication were the main topics presented in workshops. 3- Participants felt workshops increased scholarly productivity and could create an empowering atmosphere. 4- The first measurement tool to assess confidence in medical writing was valid (≥0.75 for content and convergent validity) and reliable (≥0.92 for internal and temporal reliability). 5- A well-structured hands-on workshop can enhance participants' confidence in writing different parts of a standard medical article and using the English language for writing.
Conclusion: This dissertation provides unique and novel insights about current medical journalolgy literature, offers the first trustworthy measurement tool for this area, and addresses the impact of well-structured workshops by using the mentioned tool.ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)Many health-related graduate programs lack long-term courses on medical writing and publishing, making short-term workshops essential for teaching these skills. This dissertation reviews the current literature on these workshops to develop evidence-based findings.
The study includes five parts: A systematic review of 45 articles on the impact of workshops; a systematic review of 30 articles on workshop content and teaching strategies; an analysis of 17 articles on participants' experiences; the creation of a tool to measure confidence in medical writing; and an evaluation of a hands-on workshop's effect on confidence. Many studies proved small and inconclusive. Workshops often cover topics such as article structure, standard English use, and publication ethics. Participants generally feel more productive and confident after the workshops. The new measurement tool is valid and reliable, and well-structured workshops can significantly boost confidence in writing medical articles. This dissertation provides new insights and a valuable tool for improving medical writing education
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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