Effective Medical Writing: The Write Way to Get Published (Second Edition)

Effective Medical Writing. The Write Way to Get Published has been used extensively as resource material for numerous medical and scientific writing workshops held throughout Asia. This book will be helpful to medical and postgraduate students, clinical specialty trainees, aspiring researchers, newly-appointed academic staff, allied health professionals, and those who are looking to write scientific papers and get published. This Second Edition has been extensively rewritten and updated, again in an easy-to-read style covering all the steps required to prepare manuscripts for biomedical and healthcare publications. The reader will learn about “must-know” issues relating to authorship, manuscript processing, reviewing, editing and other key points related to publishing.

Professor Wilfred C.G. Peh is Senior Consultant at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore and Clinical Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He has published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored 70 book chapters and 10 books. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Radiology, and Advisor and past Chief Editor of the Singapore Medical Journal. He is currently Senior Editor of the British Journal of Radiology. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Roentgenology, Radiology, Skeletal Radiology and Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology. He is Immediate Past President of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors.

Professor José Florencio F. Lapeña, Jr. is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, University of the Philippines, Manila and Attending Paediatric Otorhinolaryngologist, Philippine General Hospital. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored 12 book chapters and five books. He serves as Chief Editor of the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and International Corresponding Editor of the Singapore Medical Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of the Medical Journal of Australia, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, OTO Open, 4Open Life Sciences-Medicine, and Brunei International Medical Journal. He is Past President of the Philippine Association of Medical Journal Editors and the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors, and currently serves as Secretary of the World Association of Medical Editors.

Professor Kwan Hoong Ng is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has published over 240 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored 30 book chapters and 12 books. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Radiology, Journal of Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Medical Physics, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Health and Technology, Singapore Medical Journal, and Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology.

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