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Greffe d'utérus pour enfanter
Le quotidien du médecin nous rapporte le cas d'une femme turque de 22 ans, greffée de l'utérus 2 ans auparavant et pour laquelle une grossesse est en cours. L'histoire ne nous dit pas encore si cette grossesse ira à son terme, mais un nouveau cap est franchi pour la médecine. Quel sera le pro...
Greffe d'utérus pour enfanter
Le quotidien du médecin nous rapporte le cas d'une femme turque de 22 ans, greffée de l'utérus 2 ans auparavant et pour laquelle une grossesse est en cours. L'histoire ne nous dit pas encore si cette grossesse ira à son terme, mais un nouveau cap est franchi pour la médecine. Quel sera le pro...
N°6 : Writing the Materials and Methods section
In this 6th issue, you will find a new contribution dealing with the Materials and Methods section (The British Medical Journal) , which can also be called « Patients and Methods » (The Lancet), or « Methods » (The European Heart Journal or The New England Journal of Medicine).The focus will ...
N°6 : Writing the Materials and Methods section
Particular attention needs to be paid to tense usage in the Materials and Methods section. As this section describes in detail the procedures, materials and patients that were involved in the completed study, the simple past is the most frequently used tense. However, the simple present and t...
N°6 : Writing the Materials and Methods section
Both active and passive verbs are to be found. Nevertheless, as the focus of this section is on the methods and procedures rather than the researchers performing the different tasks, the passive is more often used. On trouvera aussi bien des verbes à la voix active qu’à la voix passive. Cepen...
N°6 : Writing the Materials and Methods section
For the sake of clarity, it is useful to divide the Methods section into subsections, each bearing a heading.For example, the subsection describing the study subjects may be headed: Study groups, Population, Patients, Animals…The question of ethical issues is sometimes addressed in a specific...
N°6 : Writing the Materials and Methods section
Transform the following sentences using the passive voice. 1. Researchers divided the rats into two groups; those that assistants fed with a high-fat diet and those that assistants fed with a normal diet.2. Surgeons took biopsies of the swollen lymph nodes.3. The scientist added 3cl of NaOH t...
