As post-doctoral fellow in 2013, I published an editorial based on my experience as a translator, called ‘‘Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers’’ (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/ clinics/2014(03)(01) (1). It focused on the repeated ‘‘simple’’ mistakes I observed while revising manuscripts of Brazilian friends and colleagues. I d...

The prevalence of musculoskeletal issues in clinical practice, and the limited focus placed upon musculoskeletal conditions by current electronic summary resources, highlights the need for a resource that provides access to simple and concise summaries of top-quality orthopedic literature for orthopedic surgeons and allied healthcare professionals. OrthoEvidence™ is an online clinical resource ...

Enhanced p l a in TJ$ macros and a bidding environment for typesetting bridge card distributions and bidding sequences are given as a follow-up to the IPW macros given in [12]. Moreover, macros for annotated printing of the course of the play are provided. Examples of use are included.

OBJECTIVE To assess students' opinion regarding the application of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Survey Methodology courses in medical research. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the opinion of the third and fourth year students regarding the relevance of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Survey Methodology courses, which are taught in the first two years, to medical res...

AbstrAct: Merging traditional ways of teaching with modern approaches as e-Learning, focused on online multimedia applications and technologies, developed in a collaborative manner, became a real necessity in order to enhance learning and educational management. In this paper we introduce our developed Education Management Tool (EDM), a visual, interactive and collaborative e-Learning solution,...

The Common Core State Standards emphasize students writing analytically in response to texts. Questions remain about the nature of instruction that develops students’ textbased writing skills. In the present study, we examined the role that writing task quality plays in students’ mastery of analytic textbased writing. Textbased writing tasks (N = 149) were collected from 27 fifthgrade teachers ...

The Patients Participate! project explored the feasibility of a citizen science approach to writing lay summaries for research articles. It involved a range stakeholders: funders of research (medical charities), service providers (the British Library), researchers and patients. Informed by practices within medical charities and the experiences of other citizen science projects, different method...