The Medical Student Research Journal is hosting a cover art competition for our Spring 2022 edition. This is a great opportunity to showcase your artwork and earn a citation that you can add to your CV!
Deadline: March 31, 2022
Theme: Medicine
How to compete? Please submit artwork in PDF or JPEF format to julia.pudar@msrj.chm.msu.edu.
Examples of prior published artwork can be found on our website linked here.
Please reach out to julia.pudar@msrj.chm.msu.edu with any questions.
The MSRJ is seeking out high quality manuscripts from medical students around the world. Our goal is to publish great work from aspiring students who want to improve their writing and critical thinking skills, and to gain experience in the field of academic medicine and publishing. The first author must be a medical student enrolled in an accredited medical college. View our journal guidelines here.
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.
The MSRJ is seeking out medical students to become reviewers for the journal. Medical students across the U.S. and the world are welcome to become reviewers for the journal. This will allow you to gain experience with the review process, how to effectively evaluate a scientific manuscript, and how to provide meaningful feedback to fellow students. Like the author requirements, students must be in good standing in an accredited medical college. Please visit our Become a Reviewer page for more instructions.
The Fall 2018 Issue (click for PDF) is finally here! A big thank you to our authors, and especially to our Junior and Senior student editors who made this edition possible:
Francesca Cazzulino MS4, Larissa Georgeon MS4, Marten Hawkins MS4, Mariam Khan MS4, Jessica Martín MS4, Rohit Nallani MS4, Monica Pomaville M.D., Caitlin McCarthy MS3, Genevieve Pourzan MS3, Aiden Tan MS5, Sara Rosenblum MS4, Amina Ramadan MS3, Kathleen Louis MS3, Kyle Hildebrandt MS4, Alex Chavez-Yenter M.D., Kevin Lutley M.D., Amanda Witte M.D., and Nadine Talia M.D.
*If you would like a print copy of the Fall 2018 edition, please inquire via email @: contact@msrj.org
Hello authors,
We at MSRJ are working hard to streamline the manuscript review process to reduce the time between submission date and when a decision is made on final publication. One of the numerous barriers to fast and efficient manuscript review is something that is under author control – the quality of the submitted manuscript. In this post, I will describe an indispensable tool all authors should use in preparing a manuscript for publication.
The resource I am referring to is the “Reporting Guideline”. A reporting guideline is a document that outlines the minimum required content for your manuscript. It is like a checklist of what information should be included in your manuscript. The purpose of a guideline is to ensure authors provide required information such that a reader knows exactly what you did in your study, and if so desired, they could repeat your study using only your manuscript as a guide. The goal is to ensure all published research papers have proper reporting of details to ensure they can be critically appraised, utilized in systematic reviews, or repeated.
Use of a reporting guideline when writing your manuscript will also help shorten the time it takes from manuscript submission to journal decision. One of the major delays in the review process occurs when submitted manuscripts have missing information. This requires the journal to request a resubmission of the manuscript with the missing information, often requiring a second review. To avoid such a needless delay, we strongly recommend using a reporting guideline when submitting a manuscript to MSRJ.
So what should MSRJ authors do?
(1) Go to The Equator Network website (http://www.equator-network.org/). The Equator Network hosts hundreds of reporting guidelines on many different study design types. There are reporting guidelines for randomized trials, observational studies, systematic reviews, qualitative research, and case reports, among many others.
(2) On the Equator Network website, find the guideline appropriate to your study type.
(3) Once you have found the appropriate guideline, use the associated checklists to ensure you report all required information.
(4) Finally, cite the guideline you used in your manuscript.
By utilizing the appropriate guideline and adhering to its recommendations, you will ensure a smooth initial review and help improve the quality of research reporting in general.
Sincerely,
Mark Trottier, Ph.D.
MSRJ Faculty Advisor
Last year, the editorial staff at MSRJ invited medical students to enter our submission contest. This contest was open to any medical student author who submitted during the contest dates. Authors had the chance to win a $300 scholarship in each of the following categories: Best Original Research, Best Review, Best Reflection, and Best Case Report. The response we received to this call was overwhelming. Our submission rate greatly increased during this contest time with amazing articles from around the globe. Throughout the year, our staff tirelessly reviewed these articles and after much deliberation, we are very pleased to announce the winners of this contest! Listed below are our winners in each category including a short biography of the research team.
MSRJ editors and staff recently attended the Pediatrics Research Day in East Lansing, Michigan on March 19, 2014. This event was sponsored by Michigan State University Department of Pediatrics and Human Development and the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
There were 60 poster presentations and 6 oral presentations by undergraduates, medical students, and pediatric residents during the event. Included in these poster presentations was one by our very own senior editors, Kailyne Van Stavern and Michelle Dwyer along with several of their colleagues. Their faculty advisor, Jonathon Gold, M.D., is also a faculty reviewer for the Medical Student Research Journal. They presented their research regarding screen time in pediatric patients and how it relates to their development, an important topic in this day’s technological world. This poster won one of five “Poster of Distinction” awards out of all the present undergraduates, medical students, and residents. We at the MSRJ are very proud of our staff members for this honor and their continual dedication to research.
MSRJ expands its profile at multi-institutional medical student conference sponsored by APAMSA in East Lansing, Michigan
It’s the first meeting and our “Introduction to MSRJ” Elective is off to a fast start!
MSRJ is known around the world. Authors from many different countries submit articles, check out where our authors are from!