Issue 12 | June 2021
WRITE WITH IMPACT
A Collaborative Intercollegiate Newsletter for the Betterment of Scholarly Writing
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The purpose of this newsletter is to offer tips and tricks to write in the sciences in a brief and easily understood manner. On a quarterly basis, you will read advice and writing experiences from seasoned, published faculty. I host the ‘Writer’s Corner’ where I and my trusted colleagues, deliver valuable advice for writing in the clinical and biomedical literature. If you would like to suggest a topic for an upcoming newsletter or have a question for our editors, let us know.
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Richard F. Lockey, MD
IMpact Editor-in-Chief
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Talking to the press
Richard F. Lockey, MD
Distinguished University Health Professor; Joy McCann Culverhouse Chair of Allergy and Immunology; Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health; Director, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine
Disseminating scientific information to the public through the press is extraordinarily important. To ensure a successful interview, prepare in advance. How is this best done?
- Be immediately available.
- Know the primary message that you want to convey.
- Practice what you are going to say ahead of time.
- Be brief and concise.
- Have on hand or send additional information before the interview, including credentials.
- Once the interview is complete, ask if you can review it. Most times, you are not able to do so. Therefore, expect some errors.
- Don’t speak “off the cuff” or “off the record.” Expect that everything you say may be reported.
- If you are discussing a research project and need clinical subjects for the study, make sure that contact information is included in your discussion.
- Send follow-up information as necessary or about other subjects for a possible future interview.
- Take a course: “How to Speak to the Press.”
- Dress professionally.
- When visual, as necessary, powder your nose, face, forehead and chin, and fix your hair.
Good Luck!
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Preparing Effective PowerPoint Presentations
Jane Carver, PhD
Emeritus Professor Dept. of Pediatrics
An important part of advancing your academic career is learning to create and deliver effective and compelling oral presentations. Remember that your job is not just to deliver information. You, as the speaker, are an expert who can personalize, clarify and illustrate what you present by sharing your personal experiences, opinions and knowledge. Consider this: If your audience could learn just as much by reviewing your slides versus listening to your presentation, then you have not done your job as an effective communicator.
Basic guidelines for creating slides:
- Use large font and limit the amount of text per slide. This is especially important for presentations that are delivered virtually, which are often viewed on small screens. Ensure that figures and tables are also readable by all viewers.
- Avoid showing complex figures and tables. Consider simplifying them to show just the key data. Remember that if you adapt someone else’s material, you need to include a notation stating that it was adapted.
- Dark text on light background is the easiest to read.
- Use bulleted points instead of paragraphs.
- Use phrases instead of sentences – it will help prevent you from reading your slides.
- Fully credit all borrowed material.
- Use a mix of text, tables and graphics.
- Consider your audience. If it is broad, avoid field-specific jargon and define acronyms.
- Make sure there are NO typos in your presentation. Use the “add to dictionary” feature for correctly spelled words so that you have nothing (terms, titles, abbreviations, names) underlined in red.
- Create your slides well in advance, allowing time for others (and you) to carefully review them for content and composition.
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_______________ Congratulations to IMpact's published authors! ________________
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Thoutam A, Breitzig M, Lockey R, Kolliputi N (2021). Coronavirus: a shift in focus away from IFN response and towards other inflammatory targets. J Cell Commun Signal. 14(4):469-470. http://doi: 10.1007/s12079-020-00574-3
Sidramagowda Patil S, Hernández-Cuervo H, Fukumoto J, Krishnamurthy S, Lin M, Alleyn M, Breitzig M, Narala VR, Soundararajan R, Lockey RF, Kolliputi N, Galam L (2021). Alda-1 Attenuates Hyperoxia-Induced Acute Lung Injury in Mice. Front Pharmacol. 11:597942. http://doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.597942
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_______________ Congratulations to Flagship's published authors! ________________
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Greenberg M, Jacoby J, Barraco RD, et al. (2021). Analysis of falls efficacy scale and vulnerable elders survey as predictors of falls. Cureus 13(4): e14471. http://doi:10.7759/cureus.14471
Morkous SS (2021). A pediatric patient with seizures and vagus nerve stimulation with worsening snoring and apneas. Cureus 13(4): e14379. http://doi:10.7759/cureus.14379
Okonkwo ER, Schuetz C, Hyman B, et al. (2021). Electrocardiograms revealing epsilon waves following use of hormone supplements in young cardiac arrest patient. Cureus 13(4): e14305. http://doi:10.7759/cureus.14305
Sablak CH, Dudley RM, Youngdahl A, et al. (2021). Point-of-care ultrasound assists in rapid diagnosis of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma in a young boy. Cureus 13(5): e14978. http://doi:10.7759/cureus.14978
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____________________________ Announcements ____________________________
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#USFHealth's IMpact, led by Dr. Richard Lockey, Editor-in-Chief, helps our physicians, health care professionals, and researchers across all disciplines to publish scientific writing projects.
To learn more about IMpact – An Intramural Review to Support Research and Scientific Publication ––please visit https://bit.ly/3leOhwh to receive expert feedback on your manuscripts, abstracts, and posters.
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ATTENTION FACULTY MEMBERS
of USF Health, James A Haley VA Hospital, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Lehigh Valley Health Network and Moffitt Cancer Center
Make an impact through service.
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Help your colleagues and trainees present and publish their work.
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Improve your editing skills.
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Include your activity on your C.V.
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For more information or to join the IMpact team
contact:
Richard F. Lockey, MD
Editor-in-Chief
or
Jennifer D. Newcomb, MS
Managing Editor
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Shimberg Health Sciences Library & Florida Blue Health Knowledge Exchange
USF Health Libraries offer classes on Endnote, effective literature searches, evaluating journals, finding available grants, and more. Click here to find and register for a class!
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__________________________ For your amusement __________________________
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Historical Moments in Medical History
June 23, 1949
First graduating class at Harvard Medical School to include women. They were: Doris Rubin Bennett, Martha Kern Caires, Raquel Eidelman Cohen, Shirley Gallup, Dora Benedict Goldstein, Marcia Gordon, Marjorie Kirk, Clare Kent Marshall, Edith Stone, Edith Schwartz Taylor, Jo Ann Tanner Taylor, and Ladislas Wojcik.
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“WRITE WITH IMPACT” is a product of IMpact | An Intramural Review to Support Research and Scientific Publication and services the USF Health Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy, James A Haley Veteran's Hospital, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Lehigh Valley Medical Center, and Moffitt Cancer Center. Previous issues can be found in the WRITE WITH IMPACT archive.
For more information or to suggest content for an upcoming newsletter, please contact Jennifer Newcomb, Managing Editor, jdn@usf.edu.
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