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An Online Training Program Based on International Electronic Medical Journals Criteria to Develop Egyptian Physicians' Academic English Writing Skills

Abstract: T his study explores the learning experiences of 30 non-native English-speaking physicians who participated in an online training program for academic writing and publication skills which consisted of 2 monthly with 2 hours per sessions. Participants identified barriers to writing, had time to write, and completed at least one research article. Participants provided written responses to questionnaire questions about their learning experience, and at the end of the program, participants identified manuscripts submitted for publication, and completed an evaluation rubric. The result shows that this academic writing program facilitated the knowledge, and support needed skills to foster writing productivity. All participants completed at least one research article by the end of the program and 67% were able to publish their research articles in high-impact journals. It is suggested the physicians' academic writing and publication's productivity requires continued follow-up.

Resident attendance at weekly conferences after implementation of an optional asynchronous learning curriculum.

Asynchronous learning (ASL) is a student-centered method of teaching utilizing online learning resources to overcome time and space constraints to facilitate information sharing and interaction amongst learners.1 Studies show it to be a valued and effective method of learning.2 As the availability of online educational resources for physicians has increased in recent years,3 Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) has become a familiar term to many. Some have suggested that ASL via FOAM can be a more flexible and cost-effective teaching method compared to conventional methods.4 In fact, FOAM may be preferred by the current generation of ‘millennial’ learners.5,6 Despite its increasing prevalence and utilization, FOAM is not a panacea. Educators who support a constructivist epistemology for education argue that the inherent isolation of ASL (studying alone at a private computer workstation) is a detriment. In addition, ASL can decrease learner satisfaction by diminishing a student’s sense of connection to peer learners.7 As such, blended learning, a hybrid combining classroom and online learning, creates a stronger sense of community amongst learners than either traditional or online courses alone.8 The Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Review Committee (RRC) encourages programs to supplement the weekly educational conference curriculum with ASL in the form of “Individualized Interactive Instruction (III)”.9 In response, our EM residency program devised and implemented an optional, Web-based, asynchronous learning curriculum (ASYNC) to supplement our traditional planned weekly residency educational conferences, in essence creating an optional ”blended curriculum”. Consistent with RRC recommendations, we permitted residents to utilize ASYNC to obtain up to 20% of required residency educational conference attendance as extra credit (the equivalent of one hour out of the five offered each week within the extant didactic curriculum). The American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-mandated 70% conference attendance rate served as an inherent incentive to participate in ASYNC.9 There is no existing evidence to inform whether introducing an asynchronous learning curriculum will have unintended consequences such as lowering attendance to planned educational activities. Considering the current generation of ‘millennial’ learners’ preference for FOAM,5 it is conceivable that implementation of ASYNC would be associated with a reduction in attendance rates within the EM didactic curriculum. Such experiences may give educators and program directors pause before implementing an analogous curriculum. ASYNC Design and Implementation We implemented ASYNC in February 2015 at an urban, academic medical center which hosts a postgraduate year (PGY) 1-4 EM training program of 48 residents. ASYNC consists of two components, devised and supervised by residency program directors. The first portion incorporates Academic Life in Emergency Medicine’s (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) series.10 Since most of the curated FOAM content from AIR comprises of high-yield evidence-based summaries of medical literature, we developed the second part of ASYNC to encourage the primary appraisal of the literature to promote self-directed assessment seeking and reflection. This second component of ASYNC consists of two monthly high-impact journal articles, selected by faculty. Learners are expected to read the articles and contribute to an online discussion board designed to encourage interaction amongst residents and faculty regarding if and how the literature can be translated into clinical practice.

Joseph (Josy) M. Bové Dedication

5th International Research Conference on Huanglongbing, Florida, 2017 Joseph (Josy) M. Bove dedication J Ayres 1 , LW Timmer 2 , and T Gottwald 3 Fundecitrus, SP, Brazil; 2 University of Florida, FL, USA; 3 USDA, FL, USA. Citation: Ayres J, Timmer LW, Gottwald T. 2017. Joseph (Josy) M. Bove dedication. J Cit Pathol. iocv_journalcitruspathology_34815. Joseph (Josy) M. Bove was a consummate professional who made many important discoveries that have had a significant effect on plant pathology and on citrus industries worldwide. He was born in Luxemburg, in 1929, moved to France as a boy and became a French citizen in 1968. He did his doctoral work on the in vitro synthesis of plant viral RNA under Jacques Monod at the Pasteur Institute, but most of his career was dedicated to the investigation of systemic prokaryotes infecting citrus. He was Researcher at the French Institute for Citrus and Tropical Fruit Research at Versailles, France (1959-1970); iocv_journalcitruspathology_34815 Director of Research at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) campus of Bordeaux, France (1971-1975) and professor of microbiology at the University of Bordeaux (1976-1997), Head of Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Plant Biology (1974-1994) and President of INRA-Bordeaux (1984-1994). Two of his most important discoveries were that the agent of citrus stubborn disease was not a virus as thought previously, but a bacterium and, more precisely, a helical mycoplasma to be named Spiroplasma citri. Similarly, the agent of citrus greening disease was not a virus, but also a bacterium, to be named Candidatus Liberibacter africanus for the disease in Africa and Ca. L. asiaticus for the disease in Asia. His group used antibiotic therapy and electron microscopy to demonstrate that the pathogen was a gram-negative bacterium. He also found that witches’ broom disease of lime, a disease that was devastating lime production in the Middle East, was associated with a mycoplasma Ca. Phytoplasma aurantifolia and transmitted by a leafhopper. Many colleagues and students were initially intimidated by his strong personality and his self- confidence, and he was often critical of weak papers and statements not supported with good data. But, he was always helpful to all, provided valuable suggestions, and was willing to share his knowledge and undertake projects of international cooperation. One of his major and unusual strengths was his ability to link the latest scientific findings with solutions to agricultural problems in the field. During his academic career, Bove published over 300 scientific articles in high impact journals. He served as Chairman of the International Organization of Citrus Virology and the International Organization of Mycoplasmology. He organized many scientific meetings and hosted numerous scientists and trainees in his lab and at his home with his wife Collette, who was a great scientist in her own right. Josy was a consultant for FAO on citrus diseases and traveled extensively. He was widely known everywhere and greatly respected for his insight into all types of problems. His list of countries visited was much longer than the ones he missed.

The visible hand of research performance assessment

Far from allowing a governance of universities by the invisible hand of market forces, research performance assessments do not just measure differences in research quality, but yield themselves visible symptoms in terms of a stratification and standardization of disciplines. The article illustrates this with a case study of UK history departments and their assessment by the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF), drawing on data from the three most recent assessments (RAE 2001, 2008, REF 2014). Symptoms of stratification are documented by the distribution of memberships in assessment panels, of research active staff, and of external research grants. Symptoms of a standardization are documented by the publications submitted to the assessments. The main finding is that the RAEs/REF and the selective allocation of funds they inform consecrate and reproduce a disciplinary center that, in contrast to the periphery, is well-endowed with grants and research staff, decides in panels over the quality standards of the field, and publishes a high number of articles in high-impact journals. This selectivity is oriented toward previous distributions of resources and a standardized notion of “excellence” rather than research performance.

Determinants of success for biomedical researchers: a perception-based study in a health science research environment

New institutions are coming to the fore as stakeholders in research, particularly hospitals and clinical departments involved in providing health care. As a result, new environments for research are gaining importance. This study aims to investigate how different individual characteristics, together with collective and contextual factors, affect the activity and performance of researchers in the particular setting of hospitals and research centres affiliated with the Spanish National Health System (NHS). We used a combination of quantitative science indicators and perception-based data obtained through a survey of researchers working at NHS hospitals and research centres. Inbreeding and involvement in clinical research is the combination of factors with the greatest influence on scientific productivity, because these factors are associated with increased scientific output both overall as well as in high-impact journals. Ultimately, however, satisfaction with human resources in research group combined with gender (linked in turn to leadership) is the combination of factors associated most clearly with the most relevant indicator of productivity success, i.e. the number of articles in high-impact journals as principal author. Researchers’ competitiveness in obtaining research funding as principal investigator is associated with a combination of satisfaction with research autonomy and involvement in clinical research. Researchers’ success is not significantly related with their age, seniority and international experience. The way health care institutions manage and combine the factors likely to influence research may be critical for the development and maintenance of research-conducive environments, and ultimately for the success of research carried out in hospitals and other settings within the national public health system.

El concepto de consumo socialmente responsable y su medición. Una revisión de la literatura

The concept of Socially Responsible Consumption (SRC) has an important tradition in the marketing literature, and recently in the corporate social responsibility. However, the complex and dynamic nature of the concept makes its measurement a topic for discussion. This article provides a review of the literature on SRC, comprehensively guided by the question of measurement. The methodology used from the review of the seminal articles to gradually limit the search to articles in high impact journals. We identified different stages in the measurement models, and highlight current debates on the role of corporate social responsibility, and the impact of socio-economic and cultural concepts on consumption.

Research literature clustering using diffusion maps

We apply the knowledge discovery process to the mapping of current topics in a particular field of science. We are interested in how articles form clusters and what are the contents of the found clusters. A framework involving web scraping, keyword extraction, dimensionality reduction and clustering using the diffusion map algorithm is presented. We use publicly available information about articles in high-impact journals. The method should be of use to practitioners or scientists who want to overview recent research in a field of science. As a case study, we map the topics in data mining literature in the year 2011.

Introducing Journal of Medical Case Reports

A case report provides important and detailed information about an individual, which is often lost in larger studies. Moreover, case reports can serve as an early warning signal for the adverse effects of new medications, or the presentations of new and emerging diseases. Although a number of medical journals publish case reports, these articles are underrepresented in the literature, and there has not been a journal specifically devoted to these valuable reports. Journal of Medical Case Reports fills this void. It is an online, open access journal dedicated to the publication of high quality case reports, and aims to contribute to the expansion of current medical knowledge. Since antiquity, clinicians have learnt from their more experienced peers as well as from their own work with their individual patients [1]. Accurate recounting of clinical experience continues to be essential to the progress of medicine. In recent years, however, case reports have become a casualty of the pursuit of the impact factor. Case reports tend to have low citation value and therefore can negatively affect a journal's impact factor, and prevalence of these articles in high impact journals has been reported as being in decline [2]. With Journal of Medical Case Reports we intend to create a dedicated home for these articles, which have the potential to contribute to and change clinical practice. All content in Journal of Medical Case Reports is open access, and therefore articles are freely and immediately available online, making this journal an important global resource. In line with our open access policy, authors retain the copyright of their work, allowing them to distribute their article as they please. In addition, all articles are archived in PubMed, PubMed Central, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. As the cost of publishing, maintaining and archiving research articles is not recouped through subscription charges, a standard article-processing charge (APC) is levied on articles that are accepted for publication. The APC is a flat charge, and no additional costs are incurred, for example, by the inclusion of colour figures. All case reports published in Journal of Medical Case Reports will be aggregated into a structured case reports database in due course. The case reports database, currently in development, will also draw content from other sources, making it possible to search for patterns of drug reactions, or demographic data and disease information, across multiple case reports. We believe the database will become an important resource for clinicians, as well as academic, commercial and legislative organisations that monitor medication side effects, new and emerging diseases and changes in patterns of known diseases. Journal of Medical Case Reports invites submission of original case reports that expand the field of general medical knowledge. Case reports should be short (no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 10 references and 3 figures). We invite concise articles that fall into one of the following seven categories: 1. Unreported or unusual side effects or adverse interactions involving medications 2. Unexpected or unusual presentations of a disease 3. New associations or variations in disease processes 4. Presentations, diagnoses and/or management of new and emerging diseases 5. An unexpected association between diseases or symptoms 6. An unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient 7. Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Medical Case Reports will be subject to immediate screening by the in-house editorial team, and appropriate manuscripts will be sent for peer review. Accepted articles will be published online and indexed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance. For more information on the journal policies, please refer to the journal website [3]. We hope you will join us in this exciting, new venture, and submit your next case report to Journal of Medical Case Reports.

Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet

Objectives To determine how often reprints of scientific publications are shared online, whether journal readership level is a predictor, how the amount of file sharing changes with the age of...