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- Correspondence to: Dr John Mayberry, Editor, Leicester General Hospital; pmj{at}btinternet.com
What do the editorial board and referees look for in papers submitted to the Postgraduate Medical Journal?
The Postgraduate Medical Journal is committed to ongoing medical education across the whole range of specialties and in many different countries. Clearly the requirements of clinicians vary with different settings. Will an epidemiologist in South East Asia have the same requirements as a North American internist? The answer, clearly, is no. However, a major purpose of the journal is to keep doctors up-to-date with specialties outside their own area of practice. It is the principle which underlies the future planning of the journal and guides referees in making their judgments on whether papers submitted to the journal should be accepted or rejected.
What are the editorial board and referees looking for when they consider a paper for publication in the Postgraduate Medical Journal? The criteria depends to some extent on the nature of the paper.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Review articles need to be up-to-date and provide practical and clear guidance where possible for the clinician. Areas of uncertainty need to be documented and referenced. The views expressed in favour …
