JPGM WRITECON 2007: A conference on medical writing
30th and 31st March, 2007, Mumbai, India

Day -1 (March 30, 2007)
Date/time	Talk	Speaker	Chair person/s
8.30 - 9.30	Registration and Tea
9.30-10.15	Inauguration	Guests of Honor: GS Sainani GB Parulkar M L Kothari	Nilima Kshirsagar
10.15-10.35	Key note address: Learning how to write from the masters	S. K. Pandya	R. D Lele G. S. Sainani
10.35-11.00	IMRAD: The age old structure for scientific papers	Philip Abraham	Alan Almeida Anil Patwardhan
11.00-11.25	Attracting readers: The importance of title and abstract	Rakesh Aggarwal
11.25-11.50	Tables and Figures: Making a figure worth 1000 words	Peush Sahni
11.50-12.10	Tea Break
12.10-12.35	The ‘structured discussion’: The evidence based discussion	Rakesh Aggarwal	M. E. Yeolekar Nalini Shah
12.35-1.00	Letter to Editors: Adding value to the literature	Philip Abraham
1.00-1.25	The Case Reports: The dying evidence and the dying art	Purvish Parikh
1.25-2.15	Lunch
2.15-2.40	The References: Understanding the Vancouver and Harvard	Ajai Singh	B.K Nayak Uday Khopkar
2.40-3.05	The peer review process: easier to pass through when you know how it works	Peush Sahni
3.05-3.30	The journal’s instructions: what editors want from a manuscript?	Shobna Bhatia
3.30-3.55	Submission to revision: Follow the rules and get published	B Gitanjali
3.55-6.00	Program by undergraduate students - Sponsored by Reliance Life Sciences	Students	Lopa Mehta S P Dandekar