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Note From the Editor John B Bodensteiner M.D.
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www.elsevier.com/locate/enganabound S1071-9091(14)00054-0 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spen.2014.06.003 YSPEN501
To appear in: Semin Pediatr Neurol
Cite this article as: John B Bodensteiner M.D., Note From the Editor, Semin Pediatr Neurol , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spen.2014.06.003 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
Note From the Editor: The publication of case studies in one form or another is a time-honored tradition in Medical Education. Much of clinical medicine is taught through the use of this format. Still, there are few journals which can spare space for case studies and even fewer that can devote an entire issue to a collection of case studies. The Seminars has published four case studies issues in the last 20 years and they have all been quite popular among our readership. This issue will be the fifth and last of the case studies issues during my tenure as EIC of the Seminars. Looking back at the earlier case studies issues, it is somewhat unsettling to see the way our diagnostic approach has changed along with the tools we use to make these diagnoses while the nature of the complaints that present us with these most challenging diagnostic dilemmas has not changed so much. It is also rewarding for me to be reminded of the number of colleagues and friends who have contributed interesting and challenging cases to the issues. The cases that make good material for a case studies issue are often those that are unusual or even unique so that the discussion can expand on the generally accepted range of clinical manifestations of a given condition. Also quite helpful are cases that represent fairly typical examples of a condition with something to teach the reader about the condition in question or the approach to the evaluation of the patient with a common complaint. It also works best if the case presentation is done so as to not reveal the entire purpose of the case in the title or abstract although key words should include the critical words so the indexing of the paper will properly identify the topic. Images often add to the appeal of the cases but just as frequently, the images are really superfluous.
I have attempted to include brief editorial comments after most of the cases. The goal of these editorial comments is to place the issues represented by the case into the context of the general practice of our specialty as it exists today and help the reader appreciate the take home message. In order to do this I have sometimes taken my editorial privileges to the limit and I have also asked several expert colleagues to editorialize on subjects where even my most profound ranting’s may be off the point. I hope the readers will find the cases as instructive and entertaining as I have. With the conclusion of the current volume of Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, there will be a change in the leadership of the journal. When the Seminars started in 1993, I was just about as green as one could be with respect to the business of publishing a journal. Over the 20+ years that I have been the EIC of the Seminars I have learned a great deal and I am grateful to the various editors who have worked patiently with me over the last two decades. Most notable among these is Virginia Prada-Lopez who has been most patient and most instructive during these last few years and without whose help the continued publication of the Seminars would not have been possible. Dr. Agustin Legido will be the Editor In Chief of the Seminars starting in 2015 and this year we are sharing the editing duties. Dr. Legido is an energetic, and very well respected young man with a wide range of knowledge and interests. Not only is he very accomplished personally, but also he has a large circle of acquaintances in a variety of subspecialties from all over the world. I think the range of topics and variety of issues appearing in the next few years in the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology will demonstrate this range of interests fully.
Over the years I have had to explain on many occasions, to a variety of different audiences, that the Seminars is not a peer reviewed publication but a collection of focused reviews of topics that are hopefully of interest to child neurologists worldwide. I have had the gratifying experience of being told that the publication is useful in the training and education of residents and students by colleagues in the US. Perhaps somewhat surprising but even more gratifying is the fact that I have also had that experience in places such as Belgium, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Greece and Turkey. If this is true, I will certainly be content that the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology has become all I could have hoped for when the enterprise began. I will continue with the Journal as a member of the Editorial Board and advisor to Dr. Legido though he already is more facile as the EIC than I ever was.
John B Bodensteiner, M.D. Founding Editor, Seminars in Pediatric Neurology Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905 [email protected]
Note From the Editor John B Bodensteiner M.D.
PII: DOI: Reference:
www.elsevier.com/locate/enganabound S1071-9091(14)00054-0 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spen.2014.06.003 YSPEN501
To appear in: Semin Pediatr Neurol
Cite this article as: John B Bodensteiner M.D., Note From the Editor, Semin Pediatr Neurol , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spen.2014.06.003 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
Note From the Editor: The publication of case studies in one form or another is a time-honored tradition in Medical Education. Much of clinical medicine is taught through the use of this format. Still, there are few journals which can spare space for case studies and even fewer that can devote an entire issue to a collection of case studies. The Seminars has published four case studies issues in the last 20 years and they have all been quite popular among our readership. This issue will be the fifth and last of the case studies issues during my tenure as EIC of the Seminars. Looking back at the earlier case studies issues, it is somewhat unsettling to see the way our diagnostic approach has changed along with the tools we use to make these diagnoses while the nature of the complaints that present us with these most challenging diagnostic dilemmas has not changed so much. It is also rewarding for me to be reminded of the number of colleagues and friends who have contributed interesting and challenging cases to the issues. The cases that make good material for a case studies issue are often those that are unusual or even unique so that the discussion can expand on the generally accepted range of clinical manifestations of a given condition. Also quite helpful are cases that represent fairly typical examples of a condition with something to teach the reader about the condition in question or the approach to the evaluation of the patient with a common complaint. It also works best if the case presentation is done so as to not reveal the entire purpose of the case in the title or abstract although key words should include the critical words so the indexing of the paper will properly identify the topic. Images often add to the appeal of the cases but just as frequently, the images are really superfluous.
I have attempted to include brief editorial comments after most of the cases. The goal of these editorial comments is to place the issues represented by the case into the context of the general practice of our specialty as it exists today and help the reader appreciate the take home message. In order to do this I have sometimes taken my editorial privileges to the limit and I have also asked several expert colleagues to editorialize on subjects where even my most profound ranting’s may be off the point. I hope the readers will find the cases as instructive and entertaining as I have. With the conclusion of the current volume of Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, there will be a change in the leadership of the journal. When the Seminars started in 1993, I was just about as green as one could be with respect to the business of publishing a journal. Over the 20+ years that I have been the EIC of the Seminars I have learned a great deal and I am grateful to the various editors who have worked patiently with me over the last two decades. Most notable among these is Virginia Prada-Lopez who has been most patient and most instructive during these last few years and without whose help the continued publication of the Seminars would not have been possible. Dr. Agustin Legido will be the Editor In Chief of the Seminars starting in 2015 and this year we are sharing the editing duties. Dr. Legido is an energetic, and very well respected young man with a wide range of knowledge and interests. Not only is he very accomplished personally, but also he has a large circle of acquaintances in a variety of subspecialties from all over the world. I think the range of topics and variety of issues appearing in the next few years in the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology will demonstrate this range of interests fully.
Over the years I have had to explain on many occasions, to a variety of different audiences, that the Seminars is not a peer reviewed publication but a collection of focused reviews of topics that are hopefully of interest to child neurologists worldwide. I have had the gratifying experience of being told that the publication is useful in the training and education of residents and students by colleagues in the US. Perhaps somewhat surprising but even more gratifying is the fact that I have also had that experience in places such as Belgium, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Greece and Turkey. If this is true, I will certainly be content that the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology has become all I could have hoped for when the enterprise began. I will continue with the Journal as a member of the Editorial Board and advisor to Dr. Legido though he already is more facile as the EIC than I ever was.
John B Bodensteiner, M.D. Founding Editor, Seminars in Pediatric Neurology Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905 [email protected]
