China connection

doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041147

A Chinese cardiologist, researcher and medical school instructor is bringing the latest in English medical publishing to Jiujiang. Dr. Luo Yusheng (Louis), who teaches cardiology and internal medicine at Jiujiang Medical College and Hospital, recently completed a 3-month internship in biomedical publishing at CMAJ. He learned what it takes to publish in an English journal — “things you can't learn from a book. English is the international language in science. This way we can have a larger effect,” said Luo, 40, who has already published an English-language paper. Luo is the second Chinese physician to complete the internship at CMAJ, which is part of a China Medical Board program to help biomedical researchers in Asia publish more of their work in the English-language literature. The program includes biomedical writing instruction and a 2-year editor training program. — CMAJ