Endocrine Abstracts

When you sit in meetings I know you will all have thought at different times that this is the most (tick one of the following boxes) – boring – incomprehensible – ridiculous – interesting – inspirational – fantastic – talk you have ever heard. Now that oral presentations at meetings are rare for many with posters taking centre stage it is really important to make the best of the opportunity to impress potential future employers etc with your ...

The key to a great poster is preparation – as soon as you receive notification of your poster presentation, read the ‘instructions for authors’. Key points to note are:The size of the poster boardsAttendance timesIs there a presentation in front of your poster?Turn-around time of the poster printer.The shape/size of the poster will be dictated by th...

The most important part of any research project is getting it published in the best way; this usually will include a peer reviewed journal paper. Choice of journal is an important decision, with international broad readership journals having much greater prestige than regional or subject-restricted publications. You will need to decide whether to put all your relevant research findings into a single large manuscript, or to split your work up into a series of smaller papers. If...

In all probability, a thesis is the longest single document that anyone is likely to write as a scientist. It requires much planning to ensure that the thesis gets written and submitted on time. To begin with, plan the overall outline of the thesis. With some variation, most theses begin with a comprehensive introduction/literature review. A chapter describing the materials and methods invariably follows. The subsequent chapters contain the material you have sweated over i.e. ...

The public’s understanding of current scientific matters is mostly communicated through the news media. Scientists and clinicians are often reluctant to comment to the press, largely through a fear of these comments being taken out of context. The news media tries to balance reports by taking comment from different sides of the story; if scientists and clinicians do not put their views forward, this void is often rapidly filled by someone with a stronger opinion, for exam...