JPGM WriteCon 2007
A conference on medical writing
30th-31st March, Mumbai, India
Venue:
MLT, Ground Floor, College Building, Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai
30th March, 2007
Date / Time / Talk / Speaker / Chair Person/s8.30-9.30 / Registration and Tea
9.30-10.15 / Inauguration / Guests of Honor:
GS Sainani
GB Parulkar
M L Kothari / Nilima Kshirsagar
10.15-10.35 / Key note address: Learning how to write from the masters / S. K. Pandya / R. D Lele
G. S. Sainani
10.35-11.00 / IMRAD: The age old structure for scientific papers / Philip Abraham / Alan Almeida
Anil Patwardhan
11.00-11.25 / Attracting readers: The importance of title and abstract / Rakesh Aggarwal
11.25-11.50 / Tables and Figures: Making a figure worth 1000 words / Peush Sahni
11.50-12.10 / Tea Break
12.10-12.35 / The ‘structured discussion’: The evidence based discussion / Rakesh Aggarwal / M. E. Yeolekar
Nalini Shah
12.35-1.00 / Letter to Editors: Adding value to the literature / Philip Abraham
1.00-1.25 / The Case Reports: The dying evidence and the dying art / Purvish Parikh
1.25-2.15 / Lunch
2.15-2.40 / The References: Understanding the Vancouver and Harvard / Ajai Singh / B.K Nayak
Uday Khopkar
2.40-3.05 / The peer review process: easier to pass through when you know how it works / Peush Sahni
3.05-3.30 / The journal’s instructions: what editors want from a manuscript? / Shobna Bhatia
3.30-3.55 / Submission to revision: Follow the rules and get published / B Gitanjali
3.55-6.00 / Program by undergraduate students -
Sponsored by Reliance Life Sciences / Students / Lopa Mehta
S P Dandekar
Saturday, 31 March 2007
Date / Time / Talk / Speaker / Chair Persons8.30-9.00 / Tea
9.00-9.30 / Standardized reporting guidelines: The helping hands / B Gitanjali / Rajan Badwe
N N Rege
9.30-10.00 / Reporting statistics: The common errors editors won’t miss to pickup / L Jeyseelan
10.00-10.30 / P vs. CI: Friends or foe / L Jeyseelan
10.30-11.00 / The values of life: reflections as an author / Deepak Dave / Sanjay Oak
S Parkar
11.00-11.20 / Tea
11.20-11.45 / Cut-copy-paste: understanding intellectual theft and plagiarism / B Gitanjali / Kaizad Damania
Avinash Supe
11.45-12.10 / Ethical conduct of research: When and how of IRBs / UM Thatte
12.10-12.35 / Authors vs. contributors: the importance of names in byline / Rakesh Aggarwal
12.35-1.00 / One study = one paper: Avoid slicing of papers / Peush Sahni
1.00-1.30 / Conflicts of Interest: Declare everything to be safe / Rajendra Kale
1.30-2.30 / Lunch
2.30-3.00 / Writing in lay media: Health information for the patients / Anirudha Malpani / Sandhya Kamath
L S Bichile
3.00-3.30 / Freeing the literature: open access publishingand archiving / Subbiah Arunachalam
3.30-4.00 / Owning the literature: understanding the copyright ownership / Bhavin Jankharia
4.00-4.30 / ‘I wish I had written that paper’: The publishable paper / Rajendra Kale