Turning Your Research into a Publishable Manuscript

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
08:00-16:00

 

Course Description

Pre-Congress and a new form of mentorship available at the upcoming Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress

Mentorship can be highly valuable for the career development of any emergency physician, and mentorship can take many forms. A new form of mentorship is being offered as a pre-congress Workshop at the upcoming 9th Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress. The workshop is designed to help manuscript authors who are non-native speakers of English to improve the quality of English expression in their manuscripts, so that they are more likely to become accepted for publication in an English-language journal.

A group of emergency medicine journal editors and associate editors will lead a pre-congress Workshop called “Turning Your Research into a Publishable Manuscript.” The target audience for the workshop is non native speakers of English, who are emergency medicine researchers, and who wish to maximize the impact of their scientific works via publication of their research findings in an English-language journal.

Many emergency medicine researchers produce good science, but difficulties with expressing themselves clearly in the English language can be a barrier to the publication of their findings in the English-language journals that are the most widely read journals in our specialty. We hope to help to lower that barrier, through mentorship.

Please be aware that this mentorship opportunity is designed to help authors of scientific manuscripts. We will not be mentoring authors of case reports.

This opportunity will provide mentorship as follows:

1. Interested investigators who have a scientific manuscript in preparation will register on-line at the MEMC web site for the pre-course, “Turning Your Research into a Publishable Manuscript”.
2. The investigator will be paired with a mentor, selected from among the faculty for the workshop. Each mentor will have no more than four mentees assigned.
3. The investigator will email a copy of their draft manuscript to their new mentor as soon as the investigator receives the mentor’s name and email address.
4. The mentor will read the draft manuscript, suggest revisions, and email the revised draft back to the mentee.
5. The mentor and mentee may circulate progressively improved manuscript drafts between themselves, as many times as they wish.
6. At the workshop, the mentor and mentee will meet for a one-hour session. At that time, they can make further revisions to the draft manuscript.
7. The mentee will then have four hours on September 6, during which they can make any final corrections or revisions.
8. The mentor and mentee will meet again after lunch on September 6, if they so choose. At this time, a final draft of the manuscript, suitable for submission to an emergency medicine journal, will be prepared.

The goal of the “in-person mentoring sessions” on September 6 is that the final draft of the manuscript, to be submitted to a journal for consideration for possible publication, will not be rejected because of poor clarity of English writing.

Further, the mentoring relationship can continue after the Congress. Most journal editors require additional revisions or clarifications before a manuscript becomes accepted for publication. The mentors and investigators/mentees can continue their collaborations by email, telephone, Skype or FaceTime after the Congress, to make the changes and clarifications mandated by the editors of these journals.

If you have further questions about this workshop, please contact workshop Chair Gary Gaddis MD PhD at gary.gaddis@wustl.edu. Hurry to register. Space is limited, because each of the five mentors currently committed to the workshop can each mentor only four mentees.

 

Course Fee*

Organizing Societies (AAEM, GREAT, MAEM): $215 USD
Non-Member: $255 USD
*Box lunch included

 

Course Directors and Faculty

Lisa A. Moreno-Walton, MD MS MSCR FAAEM
Director-Division of Research, Division of Diversity, HIV Testing Program, Section of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Gary Gaddis, MD PhD FAAEM
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

 

Faculty

James Ducharme, MD
McMaster University, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Stephen Hayden, MD FAAEM
UCSD Medical Center, La Jolla, CA

Mark Langdorf, MD MHPE FAAEM RDMS
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA

Edward Panacek, MD MPH
Professor and Chair, University of South Alabama, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Mobile, AL, USA

Ellen J. Weber, MD FACEP HFRCEM
University of California - San Francisco, University of California - San Francisco, Kentfield, CA, USA