Publishing/Writing

PubMed:Search Like a Pro
RefWorks
RefWorks Advanced
Writing for Publication
Writing Health Stories for Public (SOM Faculty Only)

Writing about Health Care and Science (SOM Faculty Only)- 12 Week Sessions

Co-Sponsored by Office of Faculty Development and Talent Management and Organization Development, Mary Knudson, Instructor,
12 week Sessions on Tuesdays
Starting 02.12.13 - 05.07.13, (No Class on March 26th) 6:00pm-8:00pm,1830 E. Monument Street Bldg.,9th floor, Tumulty Conference Room, Room 9019
Registration: FacultyWritingRegForm
Have you ever wanted to help the public make sense of a medical or science issue that would make patients smarter consumers, or do you have a poignant narrative to tell? This new course is a 12-week workshop for the growing numbers of faculty interested in producing blog posts, articles and books, sharing the complex stories of medicine through writing that is easily understood by non physicians, but so captivating it will also interest your peers. The course does not cover writing results of research for medical journals. You will write two narratives, essays, or explanatory pieces or two book chapters and do revisions of both after getting feedback from the instructor and others in this circle of writers.
Course participants will have the opportunity to pitch a story idea to guest speaker Laurie McGinley, health, science, environment editor of the Washington Post, and learn from Diana Sugg, Pulitzer winning medical journalist with extensive experience writing stories based at Johns Hopkins http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2003-Beat-Reporting.
Well known physicians guests from Hopkins and NIH will help stimulate your thinking on topics to write about as they talk frankly about issues in medicine that doctors frequently face, but may not have much opportunity to discuss with peers.
Course instructor is Mary Knudson, a national award winning medical journalist, co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers, widely used to teach science writing at universities in the U.S. and abroad, co-author with Edward K. Kasper MD, clinical director of cardiology at Hopkins, of Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition and senior faculty for over 14 years http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/writing/faculty/index.html#Mary_Knudson. The instructor and class members will critique the writings of participants and analyze assigned readings of some of the best medical and science writing. Members of previous writing classes have had articles written in class published at such sites as Scientific American, PLoS, and Better Health.
Proficiency in written English is a must.Enrollment is limited to 10 participants. Please note: NO Session on 03.26.13. For your interest and any questions on the workshop contents, you can contact Mary Knudson @ knudson@erols.com. Contact Carolyn Cook carolyn@jhu.edu to register for the course.

PubMed:Search Like a Pro (3 offerings)

Welch Medical Library
05.30.13,10:30-11:45, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
OR
09.28.12,10:30-11:45, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
OR
10.03.12,10:30-11:45, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
Registration: WelchLibraryregistration
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's database that provides access to over 17 million biomedical citations and offers links to many online publications and related articles. Learn about Citation Matcher to locate incomplete citations and how the Details, History and Clipboard features can assist you in creating searches and managing results. Learn to build expert search strategies with the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Database, save search strategies and set up alerts via MyNCBI, and how to access Welch electronic journal holdings or request articles through FIND IT @ JH.

RefWorks (2 offerings)

Welch Medical Library
05.30.13,12:00-1:15, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
OR
06.04.13,12:00-1:15, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
Registration: WelchLibraryregistration
Learn more about some the more advanced features available via your Refworks account. Capture citations info from web pages with RefGrab-it. Create an RSS Feed. Share your Refworks folder or library with other users. Delete duplicates, export your references into Endnote and Reference Manager. Learn how to edit any "Output Style" to meet your specific needs. A basic understanding of Refworks is required.

RefWorks Advanced (2 offerings)

Welch Medical Library
05.30.13,1:30-2:45, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
OR
06.21.13.1:30-2:45, Suite 1/1200, Lab #1, 2024 E. Monument Street
Registration: WelchLibraryregistration
Learn more about some the more advanced features available via your Refworks account. Capture citations info from web pages with RefGrab-it. Create an RSS Feed. Share your Refworks folder or library with other users. Delete duplicates, export your references into Endnote and Reference Manager. Learn how to edit any "Output Style" to meet your specific needs. A basic understanding of Refworks is required.