Your Paper–Increasing the Odds of Its Acceptance at a High Impact Journal

Provided by: Mass General Brigham and MGH Center for Faculty Development

Finding the funding, mentorship and milieu to do the research that results in writing a manuscript is difficult. Once it is written, you want to enhance the chance that it will be accepted into a journal and a well-regarded one at that. In this session, Dr. Ingelfinger talked about optimizing your chances of acceptance into a high impact journal.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants learned to:
• Craft a workable outline for his/her report of clinical or basic research.
• Determine his/her next steps in writing a manuscript to submit to a high impact journal.
• Complete the necessary steps to complete the submission process.

Target Audience: This activity was intended for faculty and faculty trainees.
Course Director: Miriam A. Bredella, MD

Presenter: Julie Ingelfinger, MD, a long-time Deputy Editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Consultant, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, MassGeneral for Children at MGH.

ACCREDITATION
Mass General Brigham is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.