Peer review is an essential element of scholarly publishing. The quality of every article printed in this journal and others depends on the in-depth, informative, and authoritative insights of expert reviewers. To support our reviewers, Academic Medicine has launched a Peer Reviewer Resources project. In the coming months, we will share resources and tutorials that include: questions that …
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By Mary Beth DeVilbiss, Managing Editor, Academic Medicine When you submit a paper to Academic Medicine, the periodic status updates you see in Editorial Manager as your manuscript passes through the peer review process don’t fully reflect the long hours and careful consideration the external reviewers and editorial staff put into the decision making process …
Continue reading Innovation Reports: A New Way to Change Thinking and Practice through Scholarship
In our July issue there are three contributions about the changing role of chair of a clinical department. Dr Kastor interviewed a group of chairs of Internal Medicine and found consensus that the job has changed over the last generation from intellectual, educational and scholarly leader to a more administrative and business oriented role with …
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Academic Medicine's former Editor-in-Chief, Steven L. Kanter, MD, interviews Albert Bradford, Director of Staff Editing. How does substantive editing differ from copyediting? Are Academic Medicine editors comma chasers? Learn the answers to these questions and more about Academic Medicine's editing process!
