ChemRxiv – a Preprint Archive

ChemRxiv – a Preprint Archive

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free archive. One can search this archive to retrieve research on various categories of Chemistry research - including the areas of interest to health professionals. It also serves as a repository where one can submit,unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. https://chemrxiv.org/ Any preprint archive allows researchers to share results with colleagues in the same field, for the purpose of discussion and receiving comments. This not only helps he research move on in better directions, but also helps researchers get comments before they submit the paper for publication in a journal. Most importantly it establishes…
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Publishing an article on Health Professions Education

Publishing an article on Health Professions Education

Advice for authors from the editors of Perspectives on Medical Education : Getting your research published. Varpio L, Driessen E, Maggio L. Perspect Med Educ. 2018 Dec;7(6):343-347doi: 10.1007/s40037-018-0483-0 ; PMID: 30488264; PMCID: PMC6283776 Do you find doing a health professions education (HPE) research difficult? And getting the paper published even more difficult? The editors of "Perspectives on Medical Education" share some great advice to help you. Here are some of the key points for Authors to remember for getting their research published in journals given by editors of Perspectives on Medical Education Begin at the beginning: Know you target audience…
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Refreshed after a vacation

Refreshed after a vacation

I was on vacation from the 12th of June till the 17th of July. I had a lovely holiday filled with lots of walking and sight seeing (and some working of course - that is almost unavoidable). But once I was back, it took me a little over ten days to get back into the groove, partially due to the exhaustion of a hectic vacation. For a leader of an organization this can be a source of intense discomfort. Especially when the organization is small, very often scrounging for funds and now in a stage where we see big growth...…
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