The attitudes of a final year of medical students in University College Dublin and their level of satisfaction to their medical training was assessed. Medical students were significantly more dissatisfied with their pre-clinical teaching than clinical teaching and training. The majority of students felt inadequately trained in dealing with specific issues relating to patient care and communication. The most popular suggestions for improving the undergraduate teaching programme included increasing the use of patient case vignettes, small group tutorials and presenting patients' cases.
It Is very likely that each and ewery occupational therapist has fmme InformaUon 01 knowledge worth p u b lbhlng in a profesd0nal)Ownel. Many cllnklens seem to assume that it Is onty tssearchen, or 8auWnks who c~n wrtte for publlcathwr. It may bethat crll that Is pleventirqgsoms cllnickrns trom wknntbrqthdt Information or Meas for publkatlon Is a lack of knowledge abwt how to etruckm, them. This art)cle I s lntencied as a rough guide and examines the ttile, the abstract, the Introduction, the literatwe revkw, ths dkussion and the conclusion sections of a Journal article. It does not desl wlth method 01 result8 8s these belong to the structure of a research artkle, whkh wHI be dealt with sepatately. rtre article forms part of a sympodurn entitled 'An lntroductlon to M l n g for hrbllcatknr in Professional loumals', plepeted by the EdttoriaJ Bowd of BIOT.
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