This crucial book guides academics and researchers through the process of peer reviewing manuscript articles, outlining the methods and proficiencies required to write a high-quality review. Gloria Barczak and Abbie Griffin specifically highlight the importance of becoming a first-rate reviewer to early career scholars.

HCPro is pleased to introduce Effective Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Design, Second Edition, authored by The Greeley Company experts, Robert J. Marder, MD and Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS. Completely updated to help you: * Comply with The Joint Commission's 2007 standards * Deliver focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations * Evaluate physician core competencies * And much more! Peer review continues to rate as a top problematic issue and one you can't ignore. The pressure is driven by publicly available national data, The Joint Commission's 2007 standards expanding measurement of physician competence, and hospital boards' need to be assured that the peer review process is functioning effectively. Learn how to go beyond just satisfying a regulatory requirement to performing peer review that fosters true improvement within your facility. Although hospitals go through the motions of peer review, they are often unable to make it a meaningful process-one that results in true improvement in physician performance and meets The Joint Commission's standards. Transform your peer review process and meet external requirements with Effective Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Design, Second Edition. Get best practices to make peer review worthwhile Newly updated and in high demand, Effective Peer Review, Second Edition, outlines and provides advice about how to do physician peer review effectively. Authored by experts from The Greeley Company, this book and CD-ROM goes beyond just reviewing the Joint Commission standards. It puts the standards in context by emphasizing best practices you can implement in your peer review process. Plus, you'll receive thorough discussion about data analysis and collection, along with peer review scoring and rating systems. Critical information at your fingertips Offering step-by-step guidance to peer review, this book and CD-ROM will help you: * Streamline your exist

This is an open access book. The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially India) and why research and publications are important in these regions. It addresses budding but struggling academics in low and middle-income countries. It is written mainly by senior colleagues who have experienced and recognized the challenges with design, documentation, and publication of health research in the developing world. The book includes short chapters providing insight into planning research at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, issues related to research ethics, and conduct of clinical trials. It also serves as a guide towards establishing a research question and research methodology. It covers important concepts such as writing a paper, the submission process, dealing with rejection and revisions, and covers additional topics such as planning lectures and presentations. The book will be useful for graduates, postgraduates, teachers as well as physicians and practitioners all over the developing world who are interested in academic medicine and wish to do medical research.

This practical introduction to peer reviews covers different methods of peer review, from the formal method of inspection to other less formal methods, and addresses the cultural and practical aspects of both.

This book has established itself as the authoritative text on health sciences peer review. Contributions from the world's leading figures discuss the state of peer review, question its role in the currently changing world of electronic journal publishing, and debate where it should go from here. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and new chapters added on qualitative peer review, training, consumers and innovation.

This book provides you with all the tools you need to write an excellent academic article and get it published.

Peer Review in Nursing: Principles for a Successful Practice is the first nursing publication that approaches the definition and implementation strategies for peer review within an organizational setting. Using a professional model, with shared governance as a framework, the authors discuss the difference between manger initiated staff performance evaluation of the past and the true peer review aspects of professional practice for the future. This text follows in line with the Magnet program requiremet “that nurses at all levels use self appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal settings, for the assurance of competence and professional development” page 30 of the 2008 Magnet manual. This unique text teaches nurses the skills they need to demonstrate organizational processes, structures, and outcomes that help insure accountability, competence and autonomy.

This title presents a theorized approach to writing that is crucially combined with strategies designed to assist the writer, guiding them through the various intellectual and practical phases of writing a journal article.

Peer learning allows a positive use of differences between pupils, turning them into learning opportunities. Yet education professionals often remain unfamiliar with the principles necessary to guarantee its effectiveness. The aim of this book is to help practitioners establish well-structured and effective peer learning projects using a variety of methods. It introduces and defines cooperative learning (mutual peer interaction) and peer tutoring (directional peer interaction) – outlining general organisational principles that will help practitioners implement peer learning in either of these forms. The authors consider how to prepare and train learners to undertake their roles effectively, and how to organise and monitor the process of interaction as it is happening. They then look at how these systems actually operate in the classroom, exploring how the organisational principles work in practice and giving many practical examples. Subsequently three successive chapters consider how to structure peer interactions in cooperative learning, same-age peer tutoring and cross-age peer tutoring. Finally, the advantages and problems, and the potential and challenges, of peer learning are examined. The book should be read in stages, with each part being able to be read on its own – thus providing time for reflection. Within each part, readers can choose to focus on cooperative learning or peer tutoring. The successive focuses on definitions, general principles of implementation and practical issues of implementation should help practitioners build their skills and confidence. Many choices between methods are described, and when teachers are confident in one method they may then consider trying a new method. It is the authors' hope that the book will become a model for peer learning by sharing with readers the skills of other practitioners, and thereby helping all children to develop to their full potential.