High-quality reviews are vital both for ensuring the excellence of published scholarship and as a way to provide authors with important feedback to use to improve their scholarship. The importance of the reviewer's guide to faculty development cannot be overestimated. This completely updated, expanded second edition is written to support our growing community of medical education scholars. As dissemination of scholarly work in medical education continues to evolve, review guidelines for different types of work are needed. This edition includes new chapters on reporting qualitative findings, reviewing literature reviews, and reviewing reports on innovations. This guide intends to: Familiarize our reviewers with the purposes of review, approaches to or best practices for reviewing, and criteria for superlative research. Help reviewers organize and communicate their recommendations effectively to Academic Medicine and other journals. Help researchers by explaining the criteria used to evaluate their submissions Improve peer review and the quality of published research Peer review is a time-consuming and imperfect process, but can result in a radically improved research report that ultimately has a substantial impact on our thinking about difficult problems. This updated guide will contribute to our efforts to improve peer review and improve the quality of published research.
This book is loaded with practical and useful information including tips on how to get your paper accepted for publication. Effective Medical Writing will help all authors improve their writing and publishing skills.
Preceded by A guide to clinical assessment and professional report writing in speech-language pathology / Cyndi Stein-Rubin, Renee Fabus. Cilifton Park, NY: Cengage Learning, c2012.
Covers the writing skills used in both clinical and research speech-language pathology.
Praise for Publishing Your Medical Research "This book is an excellent and well-documented guide to the design of clinical trials, the analysis of data, and the construction of a high-quality manuscript.
Whether you are a student, a clinician, or an instructor, the Coursebook is a unique tool that will help you master the technical and professional language necessary to succeed in a career in speech-language pathology.