News & Events: Dept. of Surgery Courses

The Department's 8-session Scientific Writing Course, led by Pamela Derish, is intended for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and residents whose research focus is in the biological sciences and clinical/translational medicine. The course objective is to learn specific ways to marshal the details of a biomedical research paper or grant proposal into a clear, concise, and comprehensible story that will be understandable to an interdisciplinary readership (papers), or meet the agency's review criteria (proposals). Enrollment is limited to15 participants. Application period closes Feb 1. For more [...]

To support its faculty in their scientific publishing and grant writing efforts, and to provide specialized training in writing skills for its trainees, the Department of Surgery at UCSF established its Scientific Publications Office in 2004. One former trainee who now chairs the Resident Research Advisory Committee for the University of Chicago Department of Surgery invited Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific Publications Manager for the UCSF Department of Surgery, to give a three-day seminar for its surgical residents. Topics included writing fundamentals, research articles, and grant [...]

UCSF Global Health Science's International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (ITAPS) is a training program for international scientists. Its mission is to provide training and conduct research on the prevention of HIV transmission in low- and middle-income countries. Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific Publications Manager for the UCSF Department of Surgery, is teaching a series of sessions for ITAPS' Mentoring-of-Mentors and Scientific Writing Program in Fall 2016 and Summer 2017.

The Department of Surgery's Scientific Publications Manager, Pamela Derish, M.A.,  has coauthored a paper on how to write scientific papers for many high-impact basic research journals, such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Cell Biology.  The format for papers published in these journals differs from the traditionally used format by having the Results section, rather than the Methods section, immediately follow the Introduction.