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October 26, 2004
New issue of Medical Education
Much of interest in the new issue of Medical Education : several pieces on intercalated degrees and some on graduate enrty schemes as well
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October 19, 2004
PLoS Medicine is live
The new open access journal PLoS Medicine is live
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October 15, 2004
Impact factors in BMJ
This week's BMJ editorial discusses impact factors and their abuse, and there are some rapid responses as well.
Note also the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's discussion of impact factors as a part of their report on scientific journals and more recently in their report on the RAE , in which they say: "It is not acceptable for peer review panels to rely on the place of publication as a guarantee of quality. We recommend that HEFCE to instruct panels to desist from this practice for RAE 2008 and ensure that panels are sufficiently large and well staffed to make informed judgements of the quality of the submissions."
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October 14, 2004
House of Commons Science & Technology Committee report on RAE
The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has published its report on the RAE
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October 08, 2004
Learning from early experience in medical education
In this week's BMJ:
Dornan T, Bundy C. What can experience add to early medical education? Consensus survey BMJ 2004;329:834 (9 October)
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BMJ position statment on open access
The editor of the BMJ gives a statement of their position on open access:
Abbasi K A hybrid for open access BMJ 2004;329 On the same day, disappointing news of the failure of an attempt at joint procurement of BMJ.com between higher education and the NHS
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BMJ: latest what the educators are saying feature
Cantillon P What the educators are saying BMJ 2004;329:838 (9 October)
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October 07, 2004
Theme issue of BMJ on academic medicine
The BMJ have published a theme issue on academic medicine. Contents include:
Clark J,Tugwell P Who cares about academic medicine? BMJ 2004;329:751752
Sewankambo N Academic medicine and global health responsibilities BMJ 2004;329:752753
Schmidt MI, Duncan BB. Academic medicine as a resource for global health: the case of Brazil. BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):7534.
Lempp H, Seale C. The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students' perceptions of teaching.
BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):7703.
International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine. Academic medicine: the evidence base. BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):78992.
International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine.ICRAM (the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine): agenda setting.
BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):7879.
Reichenbach L, Brown H. Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce. BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):7925.
Wright JG, Wedge JH. Clinicians and patients' welfare: where does academic freedom fit in? BMJ. 2004 Oct 2;329(7469):7956.
and a number of letters on themes such as the governance of academic medicine, the reform of undergraduate teaching and problembased learning
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