Continued Growth and Success of the Journal
2005; Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions; Volume: 34; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0090-7421
Autores Tópico(s)Primary Care and Health Outcomes
ResumoTHE 2004-05 YEAR was the eighth full year that the Journal of Allied Health has been under the direction of Thomas Jefferson University and the 34th year that it has been the premier scholarly publication serving all of the allied health professions. In looking back, the year was another very productive one for the journal. Sixty-eight manuscripts were submitted, which is the highest total in the past 3 years. As of October, 31 manuscripts were out for review and 33 were awaiting publication. Although this is a relatively large backlog, it is probably not much different than that of other major journals. However, because many of the manuscripts contain somewhat timesensitive data, we are making another change to help reduce this backlog. As you know, during the past year, the features Potential Patterns, Allied Abstracts, and Book Reviews have been published in the online supplement. Beginning with the first issue of the new volume, we will now include Research Notes in the e-supplement. This should help alleviate the backlog, as a large number of Research Notes are ready in queue to be published. During the past year, we appointed 37 new peer-reviewers, which brings the total to 117. This talented group of individuals come from universities, professional associations, and the clinical community. They also represent many of the health professions served by the Journal, including nursing and chiropractic. A special thanks is in order to this group, as well as to the Editorial Board, for the outstanding work they do reviewing manuscripts. This year, we intensified our efforts to increase collaboration with our allied health colleagues in Europe. Dr. Laurie Sherwen continues to work with COHEHRE to generate special articles on health and policy issues in the European community. We also continue to receive a great many manuscripts from other countries as well, most notably Australia and Canada. Also, I am pleased to announce that we have appointed a second new Editorial Board member to fill one of the vacant slots. Dr. Gregory Frazer, Dean of the John G. Ranges Sr. School of Health Sciences at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, has agreed to serve. He joins Dr. KeIi Mu, from Creighton University, as the newest members of the Board. At this year's annual meeting, we presented the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award, for the best paper published during the past year, to Dr. Chad Cook from Duke University, along with his coauthors Lois Stickley, Kevin Ramey, and Valerie J. Knotts from Texas Tech University, for their article Variables Associated with Occupational and Physical Therapy Stroke Rehabilitation Utilization and Outcomes. The article was published in the Spring 2005 issue. Finally, on a more personal note, congratulations are in order for Jessica Marino, Assistant to the Editor, who was married just prior to the ASAHP meeting in October. Jessica and her new husband traveled to the Greek Islands and Paris on their honeymoon. We couldn't quite get her to postpone this trip so that she could spend time in Houston at the meeting. One potential solution to the pressures of cost containment and shortages of health professionals is to use multiskilled health care technicians. Although there exist educational programs designed to prepare multiskilled health professions, the approaches vary considerably. Drs. Sherill and Keels-Williams describe a project designed to standardize the training of these professionals. The Multiskilled Competence Development Project is a collaborative venture among the South Carolina State University, the South Carolina Technical College system, and Clemson University. They outline the steps taken to develop the list of competencies and present a competency grid that can guide development of a competency-based curriculum. Educating students to participate in interdisciplinary practice continues to be an important goal of many educational programs. …
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