This book is a complete and clear guide to medical writing that will help you format your ideas, clinical observations, and research into articles, book chapters, and review papers ready for publication. Academic and medical writing skills are essential for today's clinician, graduate student, or researcher. Successful publication of your scientific work can have a surprising and enriching effect on your career. Dr. Thomas Buckingham, a distinguished medical writer and researcher, explains the basics of medical writing in an easy to read style. In depth discussions of how to write research papers, book chapters, review articles, editorials, letters to the editor, abstracts for scientific meetings, case reports, and other types of medical writing are included. This book is loaded with practical and useful information and tips on how to get your paper accepted for publication. Effective Medical Writing will help all authors improve their scientific and medical writing and publishing skills.