Prompted by your encouragement to look forward to identify applications
of class knowledge to future career endeavors made me acknowledge the siloed
nature of academic knowledge. Silos of knowledge occur in every field of
expertise, as this is the conventional structure of knowledge making and
peer-reviewed publishing. While communications scholars to published in a
limited fashion in the biomedical space, widespread awareness of communication
best practices would certainly benefit both physicians and patients. In my opinion,
one of the first steps to increasing visibility and to creating community
buy-in will be to increasingly publish the results and best practices of
applied communications studies in journals read by biomedical practitioners. As
data generated by biomedical studies is traditionally quantitative and
conclusions are driven by statistically significant results the key concepts of
communications will have to be introduced and explained to ensure widespread
adoption. Professional associations such as the American Medical Writers
Association and the Society for Technical Communicators may be able to
implement programing and initiatives that provides a bridge between the
technical communications and biomedical communities.
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