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Video interview with Professor Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports
A video interview with
Professor Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports
has recently been posted on the journal's
website.
In the interview Michael Kidd describes the reasons for launching this exciting new journal; primarily to create a dedicated, open access home for case reports - articles which have often been overlooked by mainstream journals.
Professor Kidd extols the importance of case reports for communicating new and unusual clinical findings, including early reports of new and emerging diseases such as SARS and bird flu, and reports of rare side-effects of new medications. In due course, all case reports published in the journal will be aggregated into a structured case reports database. The database will also draw content from other sources, making it possible to search for example, for patterns of drug reactions, hopefully driving future research.
As case report articles are relatively short and simple to prepare, this new journal also provides a great opportunity for new authors to publish for the first time, sharing important lessons learnt from their clinical work.
Journal of Medical Case Reports was launched in February 2007 and has already published over 50 case reports. A list of the most viewed case reports is also available.
Posted by Elizabeth.Slade at 19:27 Comments (3)
Really you are doing wonderful work.The case reports published so far has been excellent and an journal of this type is much needed as big jounals reject case reports and are very picky.
Xrays & MRI pictures need bit more calarity to see the pathogies ,especially the spine ones.Keep it up.
God bless you Prof.
With warm regards and best wishes
Dr.R.P. Gupta
Abudhabi
UAE
Posted by Dr.Gupta on August 07, 2007 at 09:34 AM BST #
Prof Dr Mirjana Perisic
Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade
Medical Faculty Belgrade
Posted by 77.105.51.134 on September 22, 2007 at 07:39 PM BST #
I was goggling famous people and guess what, you appeared....great to read about your latest ventures....how is your mum? I often think of her. I was remembering how supportive you were when our daughter Lucy was born with paralised vocal cords. Cant believe time has flown since we left school...pass on my regards to your mum, Steve and Di
Lots of love Jen
Posted by Jennifer Lier (nee Combe) on November 19, 2008 at 05:05 AM GMT #