Michigan students launch peer-reviewed medical journal

A University of Michigan Medical School student, Sagar Deshpande, noticed a trend emerging in the student experience. He heard colleagues repeatedly voicing frustration at having spent time on methodologically sound research without getting their work published because their results were not what principal investigators had expected. So he had an idea: Why not start a medical journal run by students, for students ’ own research? Deshpande shared the idea with a fellow student, Spencer Lewis, and in 2014 the two approached a faculty member, Mike Englesbe, MD, in the Department of Surgery.“I immediately appreciated how well it fit into a lot of the broader goals we’re trying to achieve with our new medical school curriculum, including fostering leadership and autonomy in students,” Dr. Englesbe said. University of Michigan is one of 32 member schools in the AMA’sAccelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. “One of the keys was that early on we got aggressive buy-in from higher-level folks in the institution, especially my boss, who said, ‘Whatever it costs, we can cover it.’”Making better scientists Dr. Englesbe realized the journal could also provide opportunities for students to learn how to write, edit and talk like scientists. Previously, there were few specific opportunities for this kind of learning in medical school. Most of it came later, on the job, with no formal structure. He contacted a colleague in the medical school, Jasna Markovac, Ph...
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