Editor's Note: For more on patient advocacy groups, like the Porphyria Research Consortium, check out our AM Last Page, entitled "Realizing the Potential of Patient Organizations in Translational Research—Delivering Treatments for Rare Diseases." By: Desiree Lyon Howe, executive director, American Porphyria Foundation The American Porphyria Foundation (APF) has been instrumental in facilitating porphyria research for over thirty …
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Advancing the Community of Qualitative Research in Health Professions Education: What’s the role of conceptual frameworks in qualitative research?
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Read other peer review posts. By: Bridget C. O’Brien, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Office of Research and Development in Medical Education at the University of California, San Francisco When …
10 Tips for Reviewing a Qualitative Paper
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Read other peer review posts. By: Carol-anne Moulton, MD, FRACS, MEd, PhD, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Priyanka Patel, MSc, Wilson Center, University Health Network, University of Toronto This is a …
Why Understanding Health Care Finance is Important Even if You Can’t Balance Your Own Checkbook
Recently, I ran into a former colleague, who now was a medical director for a multispecialty physician group. He negotiates contracts with payers and manages the specialists and primary care doctors. “It’s a different world,” he told me. “No more do we just admit the patient to the hospital. Now, we try to keep patients out of …
An Introduction to Reviewing the Statistical Methods in a Study
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Check back each Thursday for the next post in the series. Read more about our Peer Reviewer Resources. By: Colin P. West, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and biostatistics, Division of General …
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Practical Strategies for Enhancing the Peer Review of Manuscripts
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Check back each Thursday for the next post in the series. Read more about our Peer Reviewer Resources. By: Sheila W. Chauvin, PhD, MEd, professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and School of …
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Making Peer Review Fulfilling Work
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Check back each Thursday for the next post in the series. Read more about our Peer Reviewer Resources. By: Thomas S. Huddle MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAB School of …
“In Press” or “Forthcoming”: Issues of Naiveté and Experiences for Medical Student Publishing
By J. Michael Homan, MA, Director of Libraries, Mayo Clinic Two articles in Academic Medicine’s November issue underscored issues of integrity and professionalism based on the misrepresentation of unpublished manuscripts in residency applications. Although the Grimm and Maxfield study on the ultimate publication rate of unpublished manuscripts listed in residency applications did not include potential …
An Interview with the Editors
Editor’s Note: The following is part of the Peer Reviewer Resources series. Check back each Thursday for the next post in the series. Read more about our Peer Reviewer Resources. Editor-in-Chief David P. Sklar and Associate Editor Jan Carline, a previous top reviewer for Academic Medicine, discuss how they approach reviews, what they, as editors, look for in a …
The (Re)View from the Other Side
Editor’s Note: The following post is part of a series of Peer Reviewer Resources written by some of Academic Medicine's top peer reviewers. Check back each Thursday for the next post in the series. Read more about our Peer Reviewer Resources. By: Grace C. Huang, MD, director of assessment, Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, Harvard Medical …