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“How to Write and Publish Papers in Medical Journals and How to be a Good Peer Reviewer”
Sunday 24 July, IAS meeting room, first floor Pavilion 5, 13:00 - 16:30
Dr. George Lundberg, Editor in Chief of Medscape General Medicine, Dr. Mark Wainberg, Editor-in-Chief of eJIAS, and Dr. Mary Anderson, Executive Editor of eJIAS, will present a 4-hour seminar/workshop on “How to Write and Publish Papers in Medical Journals and How to be a Good Peer Reviewer”.
There are roughly 30,000 medical and scientific journals worldwide. Only about 5,000 are in Medline. Publication in these journals is traditionally the means by which new information about scientific and clinical medicine is presented, validated and distributed. However, there are specific criteria that an author should follow when carrying out research, making observations and collecting information, before the work can be presented in a form suitable for sharing widely with other medical professionals.
Peer review began about 300 years ago concurrently in France and in England. It became one of the most important factors in the history of science because it set standards that had to be met before work could be disseminated to an interested audience, and thus created a culture of essential peer- and self-criticism.
This workshop is intended to teach researchers, public health workers and clinicians around the world, how medical literature works, and the most important things an author must do to produce a paper that can be acceptable to, and published in, a widely available primary source peer-reviewed journal. The seminar will emphasise how to approach and solve the particular problems faced by investigators and clinicians working both in the field of HIV/AIDS and in developing countries, and explain how they can become successful published authors.
Lecture, discussion, handouts and student participation will be used in teaching.
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