Full Description
Very few doctors and scientists receive any sort of systematic training in publishing, editing, and reviewing scholarly articles, despite the central importance of that work for scientific research and for their careers. Medical and Scientific Publishing will help fill the gap and help readers to:Understand processes of scientific and medical publishingUnderstand the role of an academic in medical publishingBecome a better scientific communicatorDevelop skills to effectively serve as the editor of a medical journal Medical and Scientific Publishing is based on a successful course at the University of Michigan Medical School for third and fourth year medical students. The course teaches students not just how to write scientific and medical articles, but addresses key issues surrounding copyright, ethics, open access and much more. Students will build a strong foundation on how to do peer review and how to be authors and editors which are important skills in building a professional career.
Contents
1. Teaching Publishing in Medical Education
Publishing and Editing
2. Open Access Journal Publishing
3. Society publishing
4. Library publishing
5. Combining Medicine and Writing - My journey to becoming an editor
6. The Journal Team: Editors and publishers working together
7. Peer review - How to assign reviewers, how to review papers
8. Pursuing Scholarship: Educating faculty and students on how to publish their academic work
Writing
9. Writing for Impact: How to prepare a journal article
10. Writing for Success
11. How to Write a Book Chapter: Skip the history, the histrionics, and the howevers
12. A Case for Case Studies
13. Threats to Experimental Hygiene
14. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The benefit of medical illustration in medical publishing
15. My Journey to Becoming an Author
16. Writing for Fun and Profit - an author's longitudinal study
Legal and Ethical Issues
17. Rights and Publishing Contracts: What authors need to know
18. Publication Ethics in Medical Publishing
19. Publishing Ethics: An interview with the founders of Retraction Watch
Expanding Access and Increasing Impact
20. The Digital Age of Academic Medicine: The role of social media
21. Caring Through Conversation: Communication in healthcare
22. Measuring Impact
23. Government Funded Research and Publishing
24. Data sharing
25. Open Educational Resources in the Health Sciences
Case Study: Michigan Journal of Medicine
26. From Concept to Publication: Laying the groundwork for a student-run medical journal
27. Michigan Journal of Medicine as a Learning Tool: Establishing a student-run journal and editorial team
28. Michigan Journal of Medicine as a Learning Tool: Perspectives from the editor-in-chief
29. Applying Design Thinking to the Design of an Online Electronic Journal
