Medical and Scientific Publishing

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.

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As Publishing Officer in UM's Health Information Technology and Services, Dr. Markovac is responsible for development and execution of health-related publishing initiatives. She is involved with portfolio development, assessment and analysis of key current and emerging markets for educational, clinical, and research content. She has over 20 years of experience in commercial publishing. Dr. Markovac is Chair, FASEB Publications & Communications Committee and Chair, Career Mentoring and Networking Sub-committee for the Society for Neuroscience. Ms. Kleinman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Higher Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a former copyright librarian and workshop instructor on copyright, open access, and Creative Commons. She studies higher education policy, access to information, and faculty experience with technology. Her dissertation is a study of the first generation of faculty to teach Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).Michael Engelsbe is the Cyrenus G. Darling Sr., MD and Cyrenus G. Darling Jr., MD Professor of Surgery within the Section of Transplantation Surgery at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Inhalt

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