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Perspectives on Medical Education
Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education 6/2018

Open Access 01-12-2018 | Editorial

Advice for authors from the editors of Perspectives on Medical Education

Getting your research published

Authors: Lara Varpio, Erik Driessen, Lauren Maggio, Lorelei Lingard, Kalman Winston, Kulamakan Kulasegaram, Alisa Nagler, Jennifer Cleland, Johanna Schönrock-Adema, Elise Paradis, Anne Mette Mørcke, Wendy Hu, Margaret Hay, Martin G. Tolsgaard

Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education | Issue 6/2018

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Doing good health professions education (HPE) research is hard. Getting that research published is, arguably, harder still. The number of high quality manuscripts submitted to HPE’s academic journals far exceeds the number of pages available. It is not surprising, then, that journals such as Perspectives on Medical Education (PME), Academic Medicine, Medical Teacher, and Medical Education reject over 70% of incoming manuscripts. To compete for inclusion in an academic journal, researchers need to be both accomplished scientists and rhetorically skilled authors. …
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Metadata
Title
Advice for authors from the editors of Perspectives on Medical Education
Getting your research published
Authors
Lara Varpio
Erik Driessen
Lauren Maggio
Lorelei Lingard
Kalman Winston
Kulamakan Kulasegaram
Alisa Nagler
Jennifer Cleland
Johanna Schönrock-Adema
Elise Paradis
Anne Mette Mørcke
Wendy Hu
Margaret Hay
Martin G. Tolsgaard
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in
Perspectives on Medical Education / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN: 2212-277X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0483-0

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