Responsible Conduct of Research: online courses

  
This series of free online courses from Columbia University promote RCR education as a central responsibility for any institution involved in research. There are six courses:
COURSE 1: Conflicts of Interest   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 2: Mentoring    [Foundation Text]
COURSE 3: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review  [Foundation Text]
COURSE 4: Research Misconduct   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 5: Collaborative Science   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 6: [...]

Blogs and Listservs in Medical Education

  If you are interested in keeping up with what people are talking about in medical education, here is a selection of blogs and listservs to which you may wish to subscribe:

Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Mailing Lists

The big medical news archive

The Carlat Psychiatry Blog: Supporting the Search for Honesty in Medical Education

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CE_Current_Awareness    [Don't you love [...]

Plagiarism and punishment

  The following editorial and commentary were published in the November 10 issue of BMJ. [Full text is available free online.] (I can never hear the word plagiarize without thinking of Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.)
See also Writing & Publishing: all posts
Godlee F. Plagiarism and punishment [editorial]. BMJ  2007;335
Extract: Plagiarism is one of the three high crimes of [...]

10 Simple Rules (for research scientists) Collection (PLoS)

  From Philip E. Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology, here is a collection of editorials intended to provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers. All PLoS (Public Library of Science) journals are Open Access journals. This page updated December 10, 2007.

Erren TC, Cullen P, [...]

Writing for Chiropractic Journals

  Here is a selection of articles on writing, taken from the chiropractic literature. Included are links to the Index to Chiropractic Literature, as well as links to PubMed, journal records or DOIs.  See also Where should I publish my article?
Green BN, Johnson CD. How to write a case report for publication. J Chiropr Med 2006; [...]

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

  Many will agree that The Chicago Manual of Style, now  in its 17th edition, is indeed the bible of the publishing and research community, as it is described on the Web site of The Chicago Manual of Style Online.  I just discovered this Web site, and, although it is a subscription service, you can [...]

Ghost authorship in industry-initiated randomised trials

  Published recently in PLoS Medicine, an Open Access journal. (Note: The authors limited their study to trials approved in 1994-1995. It would be interesting to know what the results would be for such a study of current trials.) 
Commentary: Authors, ghosts, damned lies, and statisticians    More reaction to this article
Gotzsche PC, Hrobjartsson A, Johansen HK, Haahr MT, [...]

Jargon generators

 The other day I read about the MWLS Random Business Jargon Generator. Just click on <Generate> and see the strange (but somehow familiar) phrases that appear.
I figured there were probably some other jargon generators out there, so I went looking, and here is what I found.

Jargon-o-Matic (pictured above): This startling innovation puts the power of plausible [...]

How to write a case report for publication

  This helpful article was published in the Summer 2006 issue of the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine. See also Writing for Chiropractic Journals
Green BN, Johnson C. How to write a case report for publication. J Chiropr Med 2006; 5(2):72-82.
Objective: This paper describes how and why to write a case report for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Methods: PubMed, the Cumulative [...]

Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: secrets of the trade

  This article appears in the Fall 2006 issue of the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine. It was originally published in the Journal of Sports Chiropractic & Rehabilitation in 2001, and is reprinted with permission. (JSCR is indexed in the Index to Chiropractic Literature.)
Green BN, Johnson CD, Adams A. Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: [...]