Apuntes para la historia de MedTrad (Notes for the history of MedTrad)

rst two parts deal with the past, while the third focuses on the present and on the immediate future. MedTrad?s success provides ample evidence that Internet-based groups of this type are novel, highly useful instruments for the professional enhancement of translators, writers, copyeditors, and others who deal with scientific language in the course of their work. Thus, MedTrad serves as a model whose application in other specialty areas of technical translation and writing is highly desirable. These notes can prove useful to anyone wishing to undertake a task of this sort.