All that Glitters: A Perspective on Peer Reviewed Publications
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https://doi.org/10.65539/4yj42w18Keywords:
peer review, academic medicine, scholarly publication, medical education, productivityAbstract
As trainees and even as established clinicians, we are often gifted the following wisdom: pursue your passions, but make sure your passions are productive. The hidden meaning embedded in this term "productive" is that these passions should culminate in not just any form of scholarly material, but a peer reviewed paper. In an exploration of the origins and present state of peer review and its role for both the individual clinician and academic medicine at large, what follows is a discussion of the peer-reviewed publication as the "gold standard" of productivity, and what alternatives might be considered.
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