Author Archives: Emma Goldsmith

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About Emma Goldsmith

Freelance ES>EN translator and writer specialised in clinical trials and research articles. Former nurse. Vice-Chair of MET. Educated in England, settled in Spain.

A Spanish-English statistics glossary for clinical trials

A Spanish-English statistics glossary for clinical trials / Glosario español-inglés de estadística para ensayos clínicos. Continue reading →

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MHRA Good Clinical Practice Guide

Good Clinical Practice Guide is a new book by MHRA about GCP in clinical trials. It’s a useful addition to a medical translator’s resources. Continue reading →

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Statistics One: A half-way report

A half-way report on the Coursera Statistics One course I’m doing: What I’ve learnt so far and some details about “R”, a statistics package. Continue reading →

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Writing in the Sciences

A new 8-week, online course starts today at Coursera, called Writing in the Sciences. It looks highly relevant for English medical translators. Continue reading →

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SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2: Updated release

SDL has just released an update to Studio 2011 SP2. There are several features worth mentioning and a couple of things to be aware of. Continue reading →

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Zoom, font and display issues in SDL Trados Studio 2011/2014

How to solve display issues in Studio 2011 and 2014: zoom, font size, cut-off dialog boxes, missing segments in TMs and an empty Term Recognition window. Continue reading →

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Statistics for translators: some resources and a free online course

A look at statistics resources for medical translators and news of a free six-week online course called Statistics One as part of your CPD. Continue reading →

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Spanish – English medical dictionaries: 4 of my favourites

A look at four “diccionarios de medicina español – inglés” in printed format: quality resources to fall back on when online searches give dubious results. Continue reading →

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Track changes in SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2: good news for medical translators

One of the new features of SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2 is the option to show track changes in source segments. Is this going to be useful? And if so, why? Continue reading →

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New features in SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2

A look at some of the new features in SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2: source segment editing, Track Changes in source segments, comments in Word, etc. Continue reading →

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