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Publishing Your Research–II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Marvin L. Birnbaum
Marvin L. Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wis.
*
ES/613Clinical Sciences Center, 600 N. Highland, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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The principal reason to conduct medical research is twofold: 1) to provide an answer to some question that is important to the investigator(s); and 2) to affect the behavior of others involved in the practice of medicine. In order to accomplish the latter of these two objectives, the results of your labors must be published in a reputable medical Journal so that it can impact upon the practice of your peers. To accomplish this, it is necessary to conform to certain rules in the development of the manuscript, and then have the paper evaluated for its relative merits for publication by a panel of your peers. These issues are addressed in this paper.

We all tend to be somewhat naive about the need to write in terms that can be understood and appreciated by our peers. Without clarity and understanding, our work has little impact on others. All that will be accomplished is the knowledge that you think you have gained from what you have done. There are several benefits associated with submission of your hard-earned work for review by your peers. Perhaps the most significant is that the process of peer review constitutes a learning process for the reviewers as well as the authors.

Keywords

Emergency Medical ServicesEMSPublicationManuscriptsWriting StyleBenefitsResearchTrainingStatisticsClinical SignficanceStatistical SignificanceValidityRelevanceHypothesisObjectivesManuscript PreparationInstructions to Authors
Type
Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 8 , supplement S1: Research in Prehospital Care Systems , March 1993 , pp. S47 - S50
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1993

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