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There are several types of medical writings including patient histories, letters to editors, case reports, research articles, review articles, and historical reviews. When writing these pieces, the author should consider the message, arrange ideas logically, start new paragraphs for new ideas, avoid unnecessary details, and select an informative, specific, and precise title. A research article specifically follows a structure including a title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections along with tables, graphs, pictures, acknowledgements, and references.
There are several types of medical writings including patient histories, letters to editors, case reports, research articles, review articles, and historical reviews. When writing these pieces, the author should consider the message, arrange ideas logically, start new paragraphs for new ideas, avoid unnecessary details, and select an informative, specific, and precise title. A research article specifically follows a structure including a title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections along with tables, graphs, pictures, acknowledgements, and references.
There are several types of medical writings including patient histories, letters to editors, case reports, research articles, review articles, and historical reviews. When writing these pieces, the author should consider the message, arrange ideas logically, start new paragraphs for new ideas, avoid unnecessary details, and select an informative, specific, and precise title. A research article specifically follows a structure including a title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections along with tables, graphs, pictures, acknowledgements, and references.
MEDICAL WRITING A Presentation Different types of Medical writings are:
History writing Editorial
(patient’s) Leading article Letter to the editor Biographical note Case report Conference report Research article Book review Review article Monograph Historical review Dissertation/ Thesis GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
• What message do you want to
communicate to the reader? Arrange the ideas logically Start a new paragraph for each new idea you want to record Avoid unnecessary details Select the title with care THE TITLE SHOULD BE: informative specific precise state exactly what you mean Restrict discussion and conclusion to facts of primary importance Write, revise and re-write Conclusions and recommendations should be in conformity with the results STRUCTURE OF A RESEARCH ARTICLE Title Author (s) Name Abstract Introduction – Why? Material – Who? Method – How? Contd…. Result – What is inferred? Discussion – What do the results mean and why? Conclusion? – What will be gained? Tables, graphs, pictures Acknowledgement References