Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial (KEM) Hospital were established in the year 1926 and in a short span of two decades the twin institutions had created a reputation not only for offering selfless and quality medical service but also for excellence in teaching, research and medical writing. The staff and faculty of the institutions met regularly to discuss th...

Each year, in an attempt to stimulate journalism students' interest in medical writing, CMAJ sponsors the Amy Chouinard Memorial Essay Prize. The $750 award is in memory of Amy Chouinard, a longtime and valued contributor to CMAJ and the Canadian Journal of Surgery. Students from any recognized journalism program at a Canadian college or university are eligible to enter, and the deadline for 19...

The case report, which has a long history in medicine, has seen its fortune wax and wane with time. We discuss the challenges facing the continued survival of the case report, including the inability of journals to cope with the increased load and increased cost of publication, ethical issues, the impact factor and the rise of evidence-based medicine. We highlight the important role that the ca...

Competitive behavior has often been presented as the ultimate engine of economic, technological, and scientific progress. Since all such progress is likely to imply some measure of social benefit, competition has been widely praised in modern western culture. However, competition can have very negative effects on social wellbeing. An early example is known as the "tragedy of the commons." The c...

Authors of articles published in medical journals are often busy researchers who cannot afford time devoted to writing. Though they are experts in their own therapeutic area, more often than not, researchers find it difficult to actually write and publish their research. Professional medical writers with their expertise in writing clear, concise, comprehensible, and coherent content are often a...

In this reflection-collage article I propose the construction of a first-person narrative threading between epistolary forms our time (email) and in order to address female authority (Muraro, 1994; Cigarini Muraro, 2013; Irigaray, 1991) pedagogical relationship (López Carretero, 2011) Depth, along with their possibilities for creating place be other ways stablishing world. The importance recogn...

While writing this abstract I received an email, which promptly answered. When returned my attention to the abstract, struggled regain flow of writing. In order understand deficit in performance associated with switching from one task another, or "switch cost", cognitive neuroscientists use paradigms recreate similar experiences. However, many researchers may be familiar difficulties tha...