Medical Writing and Publishing

A seminar course on the bolts and nuts of medical writing, the various industries involving medical writing, styles of medical writing, and techniques for improving individual medical writing skills. The seminars will act out practical situations such as writing a paper and/or grant proposal using your own research and sample texts from the medical publishing industry. The course is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the biomedical field as well as medical students. All students in research programs associated with the College of Medicine are welcome to enroll as well. Graduate students in rhetoric, journalism, non-fiction writing, and communication studies may also be interested in the course. Zlatko Anguelov, the instructor, holds an MD and an MA in medical sociology. He is an experienced medical journalist, medical writer, and non-fiction writer who is currently an editor for UI health Care.