A quantitative study of letters to the editor by medical students in medical education journals.

ABSTRACT: Letters to the Editor offer ways for readers to engage with authors' publications. Letters are the shortest manuscript for medical students to publish and medical-education journals are best suited. The UK Foundation Programme rewards medical students achieving PubMed ID publications and we hypothesise that this is a main motivation for medical students to submit Letters to the Editor. A review of 15 medical-education journals with an impact factor was conducted to identify numbers and percentages of Letters to the Editor by medical students between July 2018 and June 2020. Affiliation of medical students was collected. Our results show over two years, 299 letters were published by medical students equating to 45.9% of total letters. There was a 60% overall increase in letters by medical s

SUBMITTER: Mukhammadaminov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057084 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature