{"id":40066,"date":"2013-11-17T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T02:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&#038;p=40066"},"modified":"2013-11-18T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:42:58","slug":"brainstorming-the-abstracts-submission-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/11\/17\/brainstorming-the-abstracts-submission-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming the Abstracts Submission Process at AHA.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.13 in Dallas this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/vimalramjee125\/\"><strong>Vimal Ramjee<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/siqinye876\/\"><strong>Siqin Ye<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sethmartin189\/\"><strong>Seth Martin<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/revathibalakrishnan378\/\"><strong>Reva Balakrishnan<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sauravchatterjee996\/\"><strong>Saurav Chatterjee<\/strong><\/a>. You can find the previous post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/clinical-lipidology-becomes-a-controversial-field\/\">here<\/a>. For more of our AHA.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/voices\/aha-13-headquarters\/\">AHA.13 Headquarters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the less-known and advertised meeting\/sessions at AHA.13, held in one of the smaller rooms, turned out to be an intriguing and provocative gathering.<\/p>\n<p>A few of us were invited to discuss the possibility of improving the abstracts submission process. Some ways that might expedite or improve the process and make submissions an easier endeavor seemed pretty obvious.\u00a0At the top of the list were things like reducing or eliminating submission fees for early-career individuals and making the submissions website more user-friendly and intuitive. Another idea was to upgrade the submissions website to give details of the requirements more in the tune of &#8220;instructions to authors&#8221; from the front-tier journals (which could better guide the initial submissions for the &#8220;newbies&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Other ideas were bounced around &#8212; having a rewards system for earlier submissions, providing feedback\/peer review for subsequently rejected pieces, and ways to ensure that abstracts reflected the final content of the subsequent complete manuscript at publication. Finally, wider attention for interesting sessions\u00a0or presentations of early career individuals could enhance the current submissions process.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any insights about these ideas? Do you have other ideas to improve the abstracts submission process?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow discusses many of the ideas arising from a small but provocative gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,1306,1187,195],"class_list":["post-40066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aha","tag-american-heart-association","tag-cardiology-conferences","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}