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Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research
By Warren S. Browner, 2nd ed, 212 pp, $69.95.
Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9506-7.
JAMA. 2007;297:893-894.
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When I began my 5-year residency in internal medicine in 1985, it took me only a short time to realize that reporting clinical research would be a fundamental goal of my training at a university hospital. Indeed, Joan Rodés, MD, the hospital director at the time, advised that new residents pay special attention to publishing as an essential tool to advance their future academic careers. Yet he also warned against "publicitis" and the potential perils of "overpublishing" to the detriment of health care.
Encouraged by his comments and the favorable atmosphere I found in my first hospital ward, I began to devour papers published in English-language general medicine journals as an effective way of both keeping up-to-date with the latest advances and familiarizing myself with medical English. As a native Catalan and Spanish speaker, the second objective would later become decisive in daring to write my first manuscript (an anecdotal . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Xavier Bosch, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Hospital Clínic
University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
xavbosch@ub.edu
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