Alpha omega alpha election and medical school thesis publication: relationship to subsequent publication rate over a twenty-year period.

Low birth weight in Iran: Implications from a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis in the period 1999-2017

Background: Low birth weight (LBW), a crucial determinant of neonatal complications, represents a major public health concern worldwide. Epidemiological research is of crucial importance for designing and implementing ad hoc interventions for this issue, helping and guiding decision- and policy-makers in each country to prevent the increased prevalence of LBW in infants through estimating the p...

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...

Gout, an American Revolutionary War statesman, and the Tower of London.

Martin Duke, MD The author is retired from private practice in cardiology. He was formerly director of Medical Education and chief of Cardiology at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Connecticut, and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. He has published The Development of Medical Techniques and Tre...

Association between the Medical College Admission Test scores and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society membership

INTRODUCTION Medical schools worldwide are faced with the challenge of selecting from among many qualified applicants. One factor that might help admissions committees identify future exceptional medical students is scores on standardized entrance exams. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between scores on the most commonly used standardized medical school entrance exam ...

Training surgery residents to write for publication.