Our courses, taught in English or Japanese, help busy professionals working in medicine and healthcare to improve their proficiency in writing different types of medical and healthcare communications (eg, medical papers, cover letters, response letters to peer reviewers, conference materials, and resumes for international positions) and to keep up to date on the latest publication ethics.

Writing Road: The road to writing success

Whether you’re new to writing medical communications or are an experienced author or medical educator with training and mentoring responsibilities, we’re confident that you’ll find the various aspects of writing medical English covered in our courses helpful to you, your coauthors, and colleagues.

We offer different types of learning experiences:

Introductory video course (45 minutes)

Watch our video presentation to learn valuable practical tips for publishing a journal paper. We give a clear overview of the writing, submission, and peer review process and how to avoid common issues that authors can face.

Helpful for authors who want to start publishing journal papers and for supervisors/mentors who are helping early-career researchers/clinicians to publish papers.

In-depth, self-paced e-learning courses

Study about how to start using specific writing tips and strategies, how to avoid unintentional violations of publication ethics, and many other important writing and presenting skills to help you communicate your work clearly.

Depending on how much you’d like to learn, choose from any of our 7 shorter topic-based courses or, if you plan to write regularly in your career, consider studying all 7 topic-based courses at a discounted price in our full 50-hour writing program. The individual study units in each of the 7 courses offer lots of practical advice to help you master each topic.

Helpful for authors who want to write or present more regularly and for those who want to encourage and teach younger colleagues to write papers. Also, helpful to authors who wish to become peer reviewers or to join the editorial boards of journals.

Read on to find out more about our e-learning courses and how to sign up for them.

Why choose our e-learning writing courses?

• Study any time you wish, and login using any device (desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile).
• Study individual units in each course in any order you prefer.
• Return to any parts of the course as many times as you want during the course period for further practice or to download resource sheets, Word templates, and checklists for future reference.

Courses in Medicine and Healthcare