UCSF Department of Surgery Scientific Writing Course – Lead by Pamela Derish, Director, Publications Core, UCSF Department of Surgery

Courses and Journal Sites for Manuscript Writing:

• UCSF’s Office of Career and Professional Development Resources
• Online course from UCSF Global Health, oriented to global health research - epidemiology and prevention studies
• CDC online writing course for public health researchers
• Duke University online course
• AuthorAID is a free, pioneering global network that provides support, mentoring, resources, and training for researchers in low- and middle-income countries to publish and communicate their work
• Nature (the journal) Communication for Scientists
• PloS (the journal) Writing Center
• Clinical Chemistry (the journal) has a series of short articles that covers developing a paper, writing it, and dealing with peer review (available in Chinese and Spanish translation)
• University of Iowa School of Medicine’s Scientific Research Communication Core 

Achieving Clear, Concise, Precise Writing - Top tips for writing well, and special focus on paragraphs, logical connection, and transition use.

• https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/top_tips_for_writing
• https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/c.php?g=557839&p=5536259
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022480407004039?via%3Dihub

Writing a Systematic Review:

• https://rmit.libguides.com/systematicreviews/write 

Grant Writing:

• HDFCCC F Grant Writing Workshop – Open to all postdocs and graduate students
• Career Development Grant Writing Course – Open to clinical fellows working in cancer
• UCSF Career and Professional Development Office grant writing series and library of examples
• UCSF Course on Writing an NIH K - For fellows or early career faculty, who are planning to apply for a K-series grant in patient-oriented research. Can review archived course materials here.
• Examples of NIH K Career Development Plans
• Templates and guidance for primarily NIH F/K/R series

Other Essential Bookmarks for Writers:

• The Academic Phrasebank (University of Manchester) is invaluable when you can’t find the words (or phrases) to say what you mean
• MIT “Comm Kit”
• UCSF Library Guide to Journals and Publishers 

Mentor Training in Scientific Communication

• NIH funded SCOARE Program - Faculty can receive superb training to become better mentors of scientific communication. The SCOARE program is the translation into practice of over 10 years of research on the links between scientific communication and trainee research career intention.  This training centers practical mentoring techniques that can be implemented immediately and are effective, efficient, and accessible to mentors, including tools to:

• Accommodate trainee linguistic differences (While most mentors focus on the cognitive or ‘thinking’ aspect of language, expressed in scholarly products, we also need to think about the psychological aspects and communicative aspects of language use).
• Set expectations and structure
• Give actionable feedback on SciComm
• Develop strategies to increase trainee SciComm engagement