"Forward" Commentary

Commentary: Moving The Journal forward.

Breaches of ethics are prevalent in biomedical publishing. Kapoor and colleagues identify several of the practical and ethics dilemmas that they have encountered in editing The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Biomedical publishing ethics is continually evolving, with discrepant practice among different publications. Publication ethics apply to authors, editors, peer r...

Team-based learning: moving forward in curriculum innovation: a commentary.

Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy developed by Professor Larry Michaelsen at the University of Oklahoma’s Business School, USA, in the early 1990s. He developed it because his class enrollments were increasing, he questioned the effectiveness of lectures, and he wanted to use classroom time for students to solve the kinds of problems they would face in the business world. P...

Commentary on Websdale: lethality assessment approaches: reflections on their use and ways forward.

As we go into the 21st century, we can look at the past 30 years of domestic violence advocacy and research and remark proudly on how far we have come. The accumulated scientific knowledge, practitioner wisdom, policy changes, and public opinion changes are all remarkable (Klein, Campbell, Soler, & Ghez, 1997). What is even more exciting is that it looks like all that work has achieved at least...

Commentary Methods for health surveys in difficult settings : charting progress , moving forward

Health surveys are a very important component of the epidemiology toolbox, and play a critical role in gauging population health, especially in developing countries. Research on health survey methods, however, is sparse. In particular, current sampling methods are not well adapted for certain 'difficult' settings, such as emergencies, remote regions without easily available sampling frames, hid...

Commentary: From Mental Health to Mental Wealth in Athletes: Looking Back and Moving Forward