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Klaus von Pressentin
@klausvonp.bsky.social
Clinician-scholar
#familymedicine #primarycare
Head: Family Medicine, University of Cape Town. Editor: South African Family Practice https://safpj.co.za
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDchat #SciComm #FMsky #medsky

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-9721
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Celebrating a Successful 5-Day Workshop! ✍️

Our workshop, "Writing for Different Audiences: Journals, Funders, and Community Stakeholders", funded by the NIHR, brought together participants from nine countries.

A heartfelt thank you to our facilitators!

#AcademicWriting #WritingForImpact
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"Maybe we can't cure people or entirely remove symptoms, but we can give people the sense that they're being listened to and that their opinions and needs are being, taken seriously.” by Havi Carel
Epistemic injustice in healthcare | Wellcome
YouTube video by Wellcome
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February 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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And this is a byproduct.

Kato K. (2024). Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 75(750), 12. bjgp.org/content/75/7...
Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs
Bennett’s account that GP registrars focus on passing the qualification assessment, and the nuance of applying knowledge in practice as an expert generalist is at stake, resonated with me.1 The situat...
bjgp.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I have long said the role of a professor isn’t to introduce knowledge; every student has access to the world’s information online. Our role is to facilitate opportunities for practice engaging w information & developing wisdom re: the application of knowledge & methodologies.
#AcademicSky
December 9, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Loving this new paper on complexity in medicine, using pediatrics as the worked example.

Too many medical authors (and the MRC) run fast and loose with the terms 'complexity' and 'complex interventions'. They should read this paper.

#medsky #academicsky #philsci 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research? - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research?
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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#AcademicSky, researchers have to face this: research writing needs to persuade more than other researchers.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time
Clarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. Readability formulas can estimate how difficult a text is to read. Here, in a corpus consisting of 709,577 abstracts publis...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 30, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Celebrating a Successful 5-Day Workshop! ✍️

Our workshop, "Writing for Different Audiences: Journals, Funders, and Community Stakeholders", funded by the NIHR, brought together participants from nine countries.

A heartfelt thank you to our facilitators!

#AcademicWriting #WritingForImpact
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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In new pub with @lndanderson.bsky.social , we give practical recommendations for explaining difficult concepts to patients #FMSky #medsky #healthcommunication
jama.com JAMA @jama.com · Nov 20
Explanatory discourse is a communication strategy that clinicians and their staff can implement in their current practice.

https://ja.ma/4eHx0qf
November 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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This is a handy tip! But, having just gone to find my ORCID, I can now only think of this...

bsky.app/profile/andy...
November 22, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Another account all researchers can benefit from following is @dorassessment.bsky.social

Championing research quality and striving to vanquish our sector's insufferable, unsustainable hypermetricisation.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #postdoc
Duncan E. Wright argues that problems of getting peer reviewers, research fraud, paper mills, predatory journals, and trivial papers are all symptoms of research culture emphasizing quantity over quality.
doi.org/10.1002/1873...
FEBS Press
Although publication in scholarly peer-reviewed journals remains the gold standard for communication of findings in the life sciences, the gold has been debased by various impurities. Here, I discuss....
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Seeing lots of fascinating #ShutUpAndWrite content coming out of the Community in Writing symposium over in the UK. And it's definitely got me thinking about "Why I hate Shut Up And Write" again! #SUAW

redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2024/04/why-...
Why I hate Shut Up and Write (SUAW)
Photo by Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash Spoiler alert: I don’t actually hate Shut Up and Write (SUAW). Well, not anymore. But, for a lo...
redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au
November 22, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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Ooooooh, and that time I saw you can out-horse your email. Thanks Iceland! I do plan on trying it over the holiday break this year www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-you...
OutHorse Your Email
Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)
www.visiticeland.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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That time I stumbled across this really lovely thing about thesis acknowledgements: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
science.anu.edu.au
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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Unexpected joys of collaborative writing (by @drmeagantyler.bsky.social)

"it’s not always the publications that stay with me...it’s the enduring & very human connections that come from collaborating on writing & research." - Tyler

researchwhisperer.org/2022/11/01/t...
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The unexpected joys of collaborative writing
There are solid lists and words of advice out there on what makes a collaboration successful or how to be a co-author. I’m not seeking to recreate or evaluate that sort of guidance here. Rather, I’…
researchwhisperer.org
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Ensure that you can clearly talk about the most important aspects of your research in terms that a wide range of readers can understand 👇

My 4 top tips to improve your writing: https://buff.ly/4fv6kK8

#AcademicSky #NewPI #PhDchat
4 Ways to Improve Your Scientific Writing
Would you like to write better papers in less time but don’t know where to start? I’m sharing four strategies that will help you to improve your scientific writing today.
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November 16, 2024 at 5:08 AM
A too short visit to Dar, but a wonderful introduction to Tanzanian hospitality. Snapshots from last weekend's visit to Aga Khan University as an external examiner. My sincere appreciation to the team.

#familymedicine #primarycare #academicexcellence #collaboration
November 15, 2024 at 7:31 AM