Become an Excellent Peer Reviewer

In addition to providing an overview of peer review, this workshop teaches how to perform excellent peer reviews through an exercise to enhance basic critical appraisal skills. Participants will divide into small groups to review three medical research studies (one publishable, one that can be improved and one that is clearly not publishable). Each small group will select specific items that can be modified to improve each study and make them acceptable for publication. Following successful completion, participants will be paired with faculty mentors to improve their individual performance of peer reviews.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Describe the journal editorial process

• Describe a peer reviewer’s duties and the process of reviewing a prepublication research paper

• List potential issues that should be reviewed in each section of a paper

• Apply the critical appraisal framework to the review of a manuscript