Writing a clinical research paper

A well known unwritten law in institutions of higher learning is that of publish or perish. The duties of a university teacher in order of priority are teaching, research and service. Reasons for writing clinical research paper are to get promoted, to get research grants and to make known, one's findings in order to improve patients care. writing papers is also a means of delivering continuous education, therefore publication is essential for any one pursuing an academic career. Research papers can be in the form of case reports, retrospective studies, prospetive studes and laboratory or animal research. Two popular formats of writing papers are the vancouver style and the harvard system

Peer review and refereeing in medicine and medical sciences

Every academic scientist will come into contact with peer review process either as a reviewer of others' work or as an author whose work is being reviewed by others, or as an applicant for research grants. Historically peer review process came at various times to various journals for a variety of reasons in haphazard manner. Many forms of criticisms have been made against the process of peer review, and some critics do not believe that the process prevents the publication of flawed articles and fraudulent research. Despite the criticisms, there are advantages of peer review. At present in medical journalism peer review process is an indispensable entity for assessing manuscripts intended for publication