Together with our publisher, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, I am pleased to announce our annual competition to recognize the top Resident paper for the academic year 2010. The winning paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. In addition, the primary Resident author will be invited to serve a 1-year term during 2011 as a special Resident representative on the Editorial Board of the journal and will be invited to attend the Editorial Board Meeting during the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. (If the winning resident cannot attend the meeting, he or she will receive a $500 voucher, good towards the purchase of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins books and journals.) The winner will also receive a certificate from the Journal of Psychiatric Practice in recognition of this achievement.
When selecting the winning paper, the following criteria will be used: Originality, clinical relevance, scholarship, readability, overall value to the field of psychiatry.
The goal of the competition is to help residents improve their writing and research skills and gain expertise in preparing quality articles for publication. The judges for the competition, selected on a revolving basis from our Editorial Board, serve as peer reviewers for the residents’ articles, providing valuable comments and suggestions. Our editorial staff then works very closely with the resident authors to help them revise their papers in preparation for publication.
To participate in this competition, papers must be received by October 31, 2010. Papers based on original clinical research or review articles, whose primary author is a resident, will qualify for the award. Submit all manuscripts to Journal of Psychiatric Practice, Resident Paper Award 2010, c/o Ruth Ross, Managing Editor, 228 Black Rock Mountain Lane, Independence, VA 24348, ross@ls.net.
We encourage all Residents to participate. All submitted papers will be considered for publication.
For instructions on preparing and submitting manuscripts, see our Information for Authors.
Read winning papers from the past five years.