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Overall Goal

The purpose of this MaineHealth Institute for Teaching Excellence (MITE) course is to serve as a resource for health professionals who are serving or wish to serve as peer reviewers of the biomedical literature.

Resource Authors

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Bob Bing-You, MD, MEd, MBA
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Maine Medical Center

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Vicki Hayes, MD
Associate Editor, Journal of Maine Medical Center
Department of Family Medicine, Maine Medical Center

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Wendy Craig, PhD
Research Navigator, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Learning Objectives

Explain the role of peer reviews in biomedical journals.
Describe best practices for peer reviewing manuscripts.
Apply available Health Research Reporting Guidelines (i.e., EQUATOR network) in the critique of manuscript examples.
Discuss the current challenges in peer reviewing, and review an actual manuscript submitted to the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Modules

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