Hear ye! Hear ye! A proclamation of deadlines and deeds done well
Abstract
The Editor-in-chief shares the tremendous news of this year's award winners (and a final warning about the looming Medical Education Unleashed deadline).
If you read this soon upon its release, it will almost be too late.
This is, after all, our last chance to spread the word about the September 30th, 2024 deadline for the second edition of Medical Education Unleashed.1 In a nutshell, we are looking for papers aimed at advancing thinking and practice in health professional education that are as amusing as they are important. For elaboration, review the details at mededuc.com and examples in the December issue of our 50th volume.2 Simultaneously, we are busily forming a team of reviewers dedicated to facilitating the curation of this special issue—if you or someone you know would like to be involved, please tell us by emailing [email protected] before the same September 30th deadline.
In the meantime, I will also use this as an opportunity to appreciate and commend the efforts of those whose contributions to the journal in the past year have gone above and beyond the norm.
On the author side, we celebrate the two papers that were most downloaded in 2023. The Silver Quill Award, for the most downloaded article, was awarded to Sebastian Shaw, Mary Dohert and John Anderson for their paper entitled The experiences of autistic medical students: A phenomenological study.3 The Henry Walton Prize, for the most downloaded Really Good Stuff publication, went to Enjy Abouzeid and Patricia Harris for their work entitled Using AI to produce problem-based learning cases.4
Helping us to recognise and refine the value of those contributions, and a great many other articles, was a large group of talented and insightful peer reviewers.5, 6 We recently updated the Peer Reviewer Hall of Fame at mededuc.com to reflect those who have made substantial lifetime contributions. For 2023, we offer Choice Critics Awards to those whose efforts were particular extensive and strong that calendar year. The winners are Diane Magrane (Drexel University, USA), Lynelle Govender (University of South Africa, South Africa), Maria Chun (University of Hawaii, USA), Nancy Sturman (University of Queensland, Australia) and Thomas Champney (University of Miami, USA).
Ready to follow in their footsteps, we have now identified our 12th cohort of editorial interns and will seek to support them to develop their own skill in reviewing, editing and understanding journal operations. The 2024–2025 group is comprised of Kirsty Alexander (University of Dundee, Scotland), Louise Allen (University Melbourne, Australia) and Yuka Miyachi (Nagoya University, Japan). We had a record number of applicants this year for those three positions, so I encourage anyone who is interested in participating in the internship in the future to begin thinking early about how to write a strong application (keeping the deadline of early 2025 in mind, as will be posted on the website soon).
New this year is a training program for health professional students who have joined our International Editorial Advisory Board. The first into those positions are Sruthi Saravanan (Nottingham University, England) and Jonathan Liang Zhen (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore).
Congratulations and thanks to each individual listed as well as the mentors, deputy editors, and leaders who supported them.
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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
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