title: How to produce instructional text for a medical audience.
abstract: Instructional text continues to play a major role in medical education. Production of this type of learning resource requires an understanding of the objectives of the learner and the characteristics of text which facilitate student learning. Success in producing effective readable text requires attention to the content as well as to the way it is presented. This review outlines the factors which have a major impact on those two elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: McLeod
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011932:Reading; D013664:Teaching Materials / Q000592:standards*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000592:standards*