Welcome Florida International University School of Medicine faculty members!

I’m looking forward to working with all of you over the fall term. I’ll meet with each of you 8 times in hour-long individual sessions over Zoom to help you develop, revise, and submit an article this year. This one-on-one coaching will be complemented by 3 presentations for the whole group on aspects of article writing with Q&A. These sessions also will be recorded, because I know it may be hard to find a time that all 10 of you can attend.

You may be wondering, what will we do in these sessions? What is academic writing coaching, anyway? My practice blends conversation about the substance and style of the draft with discussion of common issues (like making time to write and dealing with anxiety or writer’s block), as well as practical advice on communicating with journal editors and navigating peer review. Each of these individual sessions will be tailored to what you need that day. And I plan to be meeting with everyone roughly every 2 weeks or so over the course of the term.

All materials related to our work together will be available for you to download here, in this part of my website. I’m going to start by posting the game-plan for the 11 sessions below, so you can download it. And, by the way, I am happy to modify that game plan as needed by particular faculty members. For instance, you’ll notice that the first 3 meetings are slated for developing an article topic, central claim, and selecting a journal. If you’ve already done some of that, of course we’ll start where you are.
And I’ll also post below a list of medical journals geared toward the teaching of medicine. Other readings or useful documents I’d like to share with you will appear here over the course of this fall.

Finally, I’ll be in touch by email during the last week of August to schedule our one-on-one sessions.