Advice from a Master Peer Reviewer

Discussing the peer review process, specifically the practice of evaluating a scholarly article as a peer reviewer, in this new episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast are editor-in-chief David Sklar and senior staff editor Toni Gallo and Carl Stevens, a master reviewer for the journal and a seven-time winner of the Academic Medicine Excellence in …

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Applying What You Learned: Title Writing Exercise

It’s time to apply what you’ve learned this week from our writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. However, you can …

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Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Part 2

Today, we’ll be sharing additional strategies for writing effective titles as part of our new writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic …

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Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Part 1

Today, we’ll be sharing strategies for writing effective titles as part of our new writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. …

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Academic Medicine Earns Impact Factor of 5.255, Highest Ever!

Thomson Reuters released its 2016 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), and Academic Medicine has earned a JIF of 5.255. It is our highest JIF ever and places us at the top of the Education, Scientific Disciplines category and third in the Health Care Sciences & Services category, our highest ranking yet in this category. In addition …

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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 …

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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 …

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