Writing, Reading, and Understanding in Modern Health Sciences ─ Medical Articles and Other Forms of Communication

"Today, information in a medical article must include not only research activities and findings, but also strategic, managerial, and administrative ones. It might include planning, political, cultural, spiritual and other social aspects as well as experience in healthcare, health protection, disease prevention, and health promotion. This book is designed to help the authors of medical articles communicate better in today's practice and health research environment. It explores the most effective practicesfor communicating using three medical literature formats: scientific articles, articles where the subject is not based on the scientific method, and business reports"--Provided by publisher.

Milos Jenicek, MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ, is currently a professor (part-time) in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He also is professor emeritus at the Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2009, he was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, London.

Dr. Jenicek has contributed to the evolution of epidemiology as a general method of reasoning and decision making in medicine. Supported by the Universite de Montreal, he undertook in the 1970s short sabbaticals and study visits to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Tufts, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Uniformed Services at Bethesda, Maryland, Universities to further enhance his teaching and research in this direction. Later on, academic, governmental, and professional institutions in Western Europe, North Africa and on the Pacific Rim also have benefitted from his lecturing, professional expertise, visiting professorships and other professional initiatives.

During his term as acting chairman of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal (1988–1989), he established a Clinical Epidemiology teaching program at the graduate level at the university; his core course also being part of a similar program at McGill University, where he also was an adjunct professor at that time. Until 1991, he was a member of the Board of Examiners of the Medical Council of Canada (Committee on Preventive Medicine). In 2000, he was invited by Kuwait University to act as an external examiner of their graduating medical students.

In addition to numerous scientific papers and other collaborations with leading medical journals, Dr. Jenicek has published 14 textbooks that reflect his national and international initiatives.

His current interests include the development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; and decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research.