A String of Pearls: Lessons for Medical Writing and Submitting for Publication

摘要

In family medicine, we talk about clinical pearls—clinically-relevant lessons we learn through experience or observation. Clinical pearls are small bits of information that are freestanding and self-contained. That concept also translates to medical writing and publishing. The primary objective of publishing research is to share your findings with the scientific community—your peers. Sharing your work, whether it was a successful patient intervention or you disproved a clinical hypothesis, is an important step in building the evidence base. Through publication, you help your peers see what has already been discovered or tried; it enables them to take the next step or to know what not to do in their own work. The submission and review process also enables continuous improvement of research quality as you receive critical feedback from your peers.