Training scientific writing
In 2009, Text and Training launched its first scientific writing course for medical PhD candidates. Ever since, the course has been highly appreciated by biomedical residents and researchers in teaching hospitals all over the Netherlands.
Since 2020, the course has been provided via Zoom, which allows participants to attend wherever they are, even in the train on their way home after work.
The participants particularly value the interactive nature of the course and the practical applicability of its content. In six sessions, we cover everything from setting up the overall structure of a paper to academic writing in English, English sentence structure, effective argumentation and composing submission letters and rebuttals.
The course is supported by a syllabus with exercises and example sentences from biomedical manuscripts. Also, each participant receives detailed personal feedback on each section of the manuscript, which is developed step by step during the course. Last but not least, participants are trained to give each other feedback based on what they learned in the course. In that way, they can continue to support each other in writing their manuscripts long after the course has ended.
From september 2025 onwards, the training Scientific Writing is given by Esther van de Vosse, who has more than 20 years of experience as a biomedical scientist, editor and reviewer.
Esther obtained an MSc in Biomedical Sciences and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Leiden University. She worked as a post-doc in the Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and subsequently as a post-doc and then as an assistant professor at the Infectious Diseases department of Leiden University Medical Center.
During her 20-year career as a scientist, Esther (co-)authored over 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, supervised PhD students, was an associate editor for one of the BMC journals, and reviewed articles for many other journals.
In 2017, Esther left academia and became a freelance scientific writer. Information about her current work can be found here: www.evscienceconsultant.com