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2009 Conference on Research in Medical Education
Call for Submissions: Research Paper Submission Requirements and Forms
Structure
Research papers should report completed investigations that contribute
to medical education research and practice. The submitted research paper
must not have been accepted or be under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Paper submission must include:
- Purpose of the research and a brief review of literature;
- Methods;
- Results;
- Discussion
- Conclusion, and Implications; and,
- If a paper reports a study using human subjects, authors must state
in their paper whether they received human subjects approval, and if
not, why not.
- A structured abstract, limited to 150 words, is required. This
abstract is used for the RIME CD and the Proceedings and will allow
for retrieval from electronic bibliographic databases. The structured
abstract must include the title of the research paper, the author's
full first and last name(s) and degrees, and affiliation(s) and the
following components:
- Problem Statement and Background;
- Methods;
- Results;
- Conclusions.
Formatting
Accepted papers will be published in the October 2009 Academic Medicine
supplement. All accepted papers are subject to editing. Papers that do
not meet the format requirements will be omitted from the Academic Medicine
Supplement.
The formatting guidelines below should be easy to achieve using the standard
formatting features of your word processing program. We strongly recommend
using Microsoft Word. Examples of the correct formatting appear in boxes.
For further examples, consult a previous edition of the RIME supplement.
- Research Papers must be no more than 3,000 words, if there are no
figures or tables.
- For Research papers that include one average-size table or figure,
the maximum length is 2,600 words.
- For Research papers that include two tables or figures, the maximum
length is 2,200 words.
- Please paginate your paper. The word count includes all references.
- The word count DOES NOT INCLUDE the title, authors' names, or the
abstract.
Please note: An average-size table or figure requires space equivalent to
400 words. No more than two tables or figures are permitted.
- All manuscripts must be double-spaced.
- Any tables or figures should appear at the end of the text, after
the reference list. Be consistent with language or style choices throughout
the text.
- Use common abbreviations (e.g., p, r, SD, R2) when values are given,
but spell them out in the description of the statistical method. P values
should be expressed as p = .05 (lower-case p, spaces on either side
of sign, no 0 to left of decimal point). If in doubt, refer to the AMA
Manual of Style 9th Edition for a complete list of statistical symbols
or abbreviations and their proper format.
- Use first- or third-person, but use your choice consistently.
Information about the front matter is presented here in the order that
the front matter should appear in the manuscript.
- The title should come first, followed by the authors' names.
- Please be sure that the manuscript has a title and that all
authors' names are listed in the author line.
- Titles should be centered with title-style capitalization.
- Authors' names should be written as author's first name,
middle initial (if possible), and last name. Do not provide titles or
degrees. Authors' names should be separated with a comma, and the last
author should be preceded with "and." The author list should be centered
beneath the title in all-caps.
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For example:
Gauging Interest in Community Service: A Retrospective of Admission
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CAROL L. ELAM, TERRY D. STRATTON, JOHN S. WIGGS,
DEXTER F. SPECK, SIRAJ A. SAYEED, and NORMAN L. GOODMAN
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- We use five primary headings, Purpose, Methods, Results, Discussion,
and Conclusion. These headings should be flush with
the left margin and bold.
- Subheadings in the Methods, Results, Discussion sections (if
any) should be left justified and use title-style capitalization. We
recommend not using these subheadings if possible.
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For example:
Methods
With institutional review board approval, the study utilized a
retrospective review of admission file materials drawn from the
medical school applications...
or:
Methods
Method The IRB at our institution approved the following research
design.
Study Sample
The random sample was drawn from all internal medicine residents
who had purchased a laptop computer...
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Information about the end matter is presented here in the order that
the end matter should appear in the manuscript.
- Acknowledgements (if any) should be written in a separate paragraph
at the end of the body of the report but before the corresponding author's
contact information.
- The corresponding author's contact information should come
at the end of the report, before the reference list. Its specific format
should read "Correspondence: Author's name, degree, address; e-mail:
. Please ensure that this information is given in its
entirety.
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For example:
Correspondence: Hermione Flagstaff-Bloggs, PhD, 289 Sleater-Kinney
Road, NW, Lacey, WA, 90004; e-mail: <flagstaff-bloggs@krs.org>.
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- Use numbered citations within the body of the text and a numbered
reference list at the end of the text, before any tables or figures.
It is essential that all references contain complete information. Do
not use footnotes, endnotes, or a bibliographic compiler to create references.
The reference list should follow Academic Medicine format described
in the complete instructions for authors on the journal's Web site:
www.academicmedicine.org.
Tables and Figures
- Unlike their counterparts in regular issues of Academic Medicine,
tables and figures do not have to be independent of the text, so shorter
titles and missing explanatory footnotes are okay. This is not to say
that they should be so obscure as to be useless. Titles and footnotes
that help readers understand a table are preferable.
Footnotes to tables need not spell out common abbreviations (MCAT,
NBME, UCLA, PBL, etc.) if those terms have been spelled out in the text.
Less common abbreviations should be spelled out. Footnotes are marked
as: *, , ‡, §, , ** , ††, etc.
Criteria For Selection
- Relevance to RIME
- Problem statement, conceptual framework, research question
- Reference to literature and documentation
- Research design
- Instrumentation, data collection, quality control
- Population, sample " Data analysis, statistics
- Reporting of statistical analyses
- Presentation of results
- Interpretation, discussion and conclusion
- Overall presentation, documentation
Submission Deadline
All submissions must be received at the AAMC offices on
or before February 20, 2009. Fax submissions are not acceptable.
If you have not received information regarding the disposition of your
submission by May 31, 2009, please contact ccoleman@aamc.org.
2009 RIME Electronic Manuscript Submission Form
Please list each author's complete name, credentials, and affiliation
in the space provided on the submission form.
Submit your manuscript online
using the RIME Electronic Manuscript Submission Form.
Research Paper Checklist:
__ Complete and submit the Paper Submission Cover Sheet
__ Submit an electronic copy of the Research Paper.
__ Research Papers must be no more than 3,000 words. Must meet
the specifications. See Requirements highlight.
Word count including references is:___________. Number of tables/figures:___________.
__ Papers, including references, should be double-spaced and printed
in 10 or 12 point font.
__ Structured Abstract of no more than 150 words including: authors
and affiliations, title, Problem Statement and Background, Methods,
Results, and Conclusions. (See Research Paper requirements)
__ If a paper reports a study using human subjects, authors must
state in their paper whether they received humans subjects approval,
and if not, why not.
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