An online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice
Purpose: A group of Arab-American physicians and researchers in the United States organized a blended online course in academic writing and publishing in medicine targeting medical students and physicians in war-torn Syria. This was an effort to address one of the reasons behind the poor quantity an...
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oai:doaj.org-article:aa453f3ca4c54406a24da5b1c24ac5962021-12-02T17:05:54ZAn online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice2231-07702249-446410.4103/ajm.AJM_204_16https://doaj.org/article/aa453f3ca4c54406a24da5b1c24ac5962017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/ajm.AJM_204_16https://doaj.org/toc/2231-0770https://doaj.org/toc/2249-4464Purpose: A group of Arab-American physicians and researchers in the United States organized a blended online course in academic writing and publishing in medicine targeting medical students and physicians in war-torn Syria. This was an effort to address one of the reasons behind the poor quantity and quality of scientific research papers in Syria and the Arab region. In this paper, we report on the design, conduct, and outcome of this course and attempt to evaluate its effectiveness. Methods: The educational intervention was a 2-month blended online course. We administered a questionnaire to assess satisfaction and self-reported improvement in knowledge, confidence, and skills of academic writing and publishing. Results: The course succeeded in reaching more than 2588 physicians and medical students from the region; 159 of them completed most of the course. Eighty-three percent of the participants felt that they were confident enough to write an academic paper after the course and 95% felt the learning objectives were achieved with an average student satisfaction of 8.4 out of 10. Conclusion: Physicians in Syria and neighboring countries are in need of training to become an active part of the global scientific community and to document and communicate the crisis their countries are going through from a medical perspective. Low-cost online educational initiatives help respond, at least partially, to those needs.Ammar SabouniAbdelkader ChaarYamama BdaiwiAbdulrahman MasraniHeba AbolabanFares AlahdabBelal FirwanaAhmad Al MoujahedThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.articleacademic writingfacebookgotowebinarmedical educationonline courseonline learningsocial mediayoutubeMedicineRENAvicenna Journal of Medicine, Vol 07, Iss 03, Pp 103-109 (2017) |
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Purpose: A group of Arab-American physicians and researchers in the United States organized a blended online course in academic writing and publishing in medicine targeting medical students and physicians in war-torn Syria. This was an effort to address one of the reasons behind the poor quantity and quality of scientific research papers in Syria and the Arab region. In this paper, we report on the design, conduct, and outcome of this course and attempt to evaluate its effectiveness. Methods: The educational intervention was a 2-month blended online course. We administered a questionnaire to assess satisfaction and self-reported improvement in knowledge, confidence, and skills of academic writing and publishing. Results: The course succeeded in reaching more than 2588 physicians and medical students from the region; 159 of them completed most of the course. Eighty-three percent of the participants felt that they were confident enough to write an academic paper after the course and 95% felt the learning objectives were achieved with an average student satisfaction of 8.4 out of 10. Conclusion: Physicians in Syria and neighboring countries are in need of training to become an active part of the global scientific community and to document and communicate the crisis their countries are going through from a medical perspective. Low-cost online educational initiatives help respond, at least partially, to those needs. |
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Ammar Sabouni Abdelkader Chaar Yamama Bdaiwi Abdulrahman Masrani Heba Abolaban Fares Alahdab Belal Firwana Ahmad Al Moujahed |
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Ammar Sabouni Abdelkader Chaar Yamama Bdaiwi Abdulrahman Masrani Heba Abolaban Fares Alahdab Belal Firwana Ahmad Al Moujahed |
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An online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice |
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An online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice |
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An online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice |
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An online academic writing and publishing skills course: Help Syrians find their voice |
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online academic writing and publishing skills course: help syrians find their voice |
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Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. |
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