JCST launches new blog

created 01 December 2016

The JCST blog is aimed principally at those involved in surgical training or in surgery as a whole, plus others with an interest in healthcare and medical education.

Blogs are more informal than other published material and the style is generally “friendlier” and more personal. They still need to be well written and coherent, however, with good spelling and grammar.

We are setting a word limit of 800 words for all JCST blogs. Shorter pieces tend to be easier to read online and the average blog is between 500 – 800 words. It is vital to understand that blogging is about starting a conversation; we want our different audiences to engage with our bloggers and also comment on their posts. For this to happen blogs need to be both concise and engaging.

Blogs should contain your own opinion or reflections on a subject or situation. You can use them to highlight something about which you feel strongly or to contribute to a debate, but should be careful about the tone.

JCST blogs are aimed principally at those involved in surgical training or in surgery as a whole, plus others with an interest in healthcare and medical education. Blogs should therefore be about surgery, healthcare, or issues that will interest the surgical workforce. Be very careful about anything that might identify a patient.

We reserve the right to check all JCST blogs before they are posted and if required we will also edit them. All blogs will be reviewed and monitored by the relevant JCST staff; we also reserve the right not to publish.

Submitting a blog

We will post blogs from the JCST office. Once you have written a blog please submit it to jcst@jcst.org. We will then accept or reject it, edit it if need be, and upload it online. Please also give us a short biography to accompany the blog. One or two sentences will be fine.

We welcome photos to accompany the blogs, although this is not compulsory.

Lewis Ashman

(+admin +former tickbox admin)

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