Brieflands training in medical and scientific writing: a six-module core course, reporting guidelines including CONSORT and STROBE, translation and proofreading, plus invited workshops at Iranian universities and research centres.
Workshop archive
Medical and Scientific Writing Workshops
Most manuscripts are rejected for how they are written rather than what they found. These workshops taught the craft directly — structure, reporting guidelines, translation, proofreading and the errors that recur most often — as open courses in Tehran and as invited sessions at universities and research centres.
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Courses
10
Sessions held
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Host institutions
2011–16
Years active
Courses and host workshops
From the six-module medical writing course through to short sessions on specific weaknesses.
Medical Writing — Open Course
Six modulesOne hour eachAuthors
The full writing course: how a medical article is structured, drafted and prepared for submission, taught as six one-hour modules. Also offered under the title “How to Write Medical Articles?”
Sessions: 27 August 2015, 11 July 2016, and as a scheduled open course.
Medical Writing Workshop, Tehran
2011English50 seats
A four-hour conference workshop covering writing, editing and reviewing, impact factors, and the guidelines that apply to editors and authors. Held in Hall C of the Gharazi Convention Center at Milad Hospital, and delivered in English.
Instructor: A. Gasparyan, United Kingdom. Session: 23 November 2011, 14:00–18:00.
Purposeful Academic Writing
2015Reporting guidelines
A writing course organised around purpose rather than format, with an extended module on the reporting guidelines — CONSORT for trials and STROBE for observational studies — and a dedicated grammar session.
Session: 8 January 2015.
Writing and Editing an Article
Host workshopCME accreditedAhvaz
Held with the Deputy for Research of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences and the Iran Virayesh Center. Contents: the general format of scientific writing, the problems that recur when translating articles, and how to proofread properly. Continuing medical education credits were awarded by the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
Scientific Writing at the Brain and Spinal Cord Repair Research Center
2014Host workshopFree
Held with the Brain and Spinal Cord Repair Research Center at Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran.
Presenter: Dr. Siavash Miri. Session: 12 June 2014, 09:00–11:00.
One-Day Workshop in Sari
2015Host workshopFree
Held at the Deputy of Research of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in Sari.
Presenter: Mahyar Ahmadpour, Department of Education. Session: 19 February 2015, 09:00–12:00.
Common Errors in Medical Article Writing
Short formatAuthors
A focused session on the mistakes that appear most often in submitted manuscripts, built around a single extended working block rather than a lecture series.
Article Writing, Part 1
One dayAuthors
The first part of a one-day article writing programme, covering the foundations before the more specialised material of the full medical writing course.
This is an archive record
These workshops ran between 2011 and 2016 and registration is closed. Language editing, style editing and translation are available as publishing services; current training is listed under Workshops & Training for Researchers.