Croatian medical journal
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Academic medicine consists of three vocations: clinical care, research, and teaching. Many argue that academic medicine is undergoing a crisis. ⋯ The debate is to examine "the fundamental nature of academic medicine." The present editorial seeks to explore one problematic feature of academic medicine: the fact that it consists of three vocations. This problematic feature is fundamental to academic medicine.
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Croatian medical journal · Aug 2002
EditorialAiming for prevention: medical and public health approaches to small arms, gun violence, and injury.
The level of global small arms violence is enormous and the scale of human suffering it causes is immense, although poorly counted. It causes at least hundreds of thousands of deaths and more than a million injuries each year, as well as permanent physical and psychological damage, destruction of families, lost productivity, and diversion of resources from basic health services. ⋯ Policies and programs designed to reduce the human and social impacts of small arms should make use of public health knowledge and analysis of risk factors as a means of bringing increased focus and effectiveness to their objectives. At its international conference on small arms, gun violence, and injury, "Aiming for Prevention" in Helsinki in September 2001, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War called on health professionals as well as scientists, activists, humanitarian and development workers to contribute to an effective confrontation of the small arms pandemic.
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Croatian medical journal · Apr 2001
Editorial CommentGood editorial practice: editors as educators.
There may be valuable research going on in the developing and financially less-privileged countries, but it usually does not reach international visibility, in spite of a large number of scientific journals in these countries. Such journals are not only invisible but, by perpetuating a vicious circle of inadequacy, may be directly damaging to the local science and research culture. We call for an international action to help journal editors in less privileged countries. ⋯ Editors can teach the authors study design, statistical analysis, precision, punctuality, research integrity, style and format of writing, and other aspects of scientific communication. The editors of "big", mainstream scientific journals can act as global educators, teaching and providing guidance to editors of small journals. The editors from developed countries as leaders, and editors from less advantageous environments as teachers are the key figures in shaping research communication in less privileged scientific communities.