Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills

The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina. Interns serve as an amateur press corps, writing news stories and press releases about recent high-impact...

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Autores principales: McGhee, Kimberly, Loucks, Tammy, Champlin, Sheila, Greseth, Matthew, Traktman, Paula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8411268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34527290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.829
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author McGhee, Kimberly
Loucks, Tammy
Champlin, Sheila
Greseth, Matthew
Traktman, Paula
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description The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina. Interns serve as an amateur press corps, writing news stories and press releases about recent high-impact research articles. Since 2016, 25 interns have written more than 100 EurekAlert! press releases that have received more than a half million views. Interns learn to explain science across the translational spectrum and to convey findings in plain language to a lay audience, serving as ambassadors for science.
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spelling pubmed-84112682021-09-14 Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills McGhee, Kimberly Loucks, Tammy Champlin, Sheila Greseth, Matthew Traktman, Paula J Clin Transl Sci Brief Report The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina. Interns serve as an amateur press corps, writing news stories and press releases about recent high-impact research articles. Since 2016, 25 interns have written more than 100 EurekAlert! press releases that have received more than a half million views. Interns learn to explain science across the translational spectrum and to convey findings in plain language to a lay audience, serving as ambassadors for science. Cambridge University Press 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8411268/ /pubmed/34527290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.829 Text en © The Association for Clinical and Translational Science 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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