The Road to Publication Simplified: Grow Thick Skin

Show Notes

Today’s Guest: Kevin Brueilly, PT, PhD Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy

Linkedin: kevin-e-b-27711920

Episode Takeaways

Acute Care is Sales
It is very normal for journal reviewers to request revisions and corrections on article submissions; thus the need for thick skin!
Mentoring is Key
“Just because someone doesn’t accept your paper or wanna move it forward doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable.” Kevin
Increased rejections are actually good for the journal and the profession >a sign of increased quality of work produced.

Three Questions

Why Acute Care?
1. “It felt good to me simply because I enjoyed the pace, number one of having a fast environment really. I mean, you’re in charge of your own schedule. But when they put 12 or 14 cases on your, on your schedule during the day you, you. Spend an hour with every person, obviously, or you wouldn’t go home at night. But it allowed me the opportunity to have new diagnoses every day, new comorbidities, new challenges to use my anatomy and physiology every day in the knowledge that I had. And I really enjoyed being around other healthcare workers…And I learned so much every day that I went to work. I’d never came home that I hadn’t learned something that day. So it was very rewarding to me.”
What advice would you give to a clinician that has some clinical questions that they would want to investigate at their hospital?
1. “I would say find someone who has some background in doing it and partner with them first. Cuz the person who’s most dangerous in any patient care activity is the one who doesn’t know what they don’t know. So find somebody that at least can steer you and help guide you and, and walk you through the process. You really need somebody to help you with the guiding questions and in the process of how to do it… but if you had a clinical question that you were trying to answer and you believed that it was worthy of research, then the first step is that you have to have data collection. And that data collection can’t just be something that you decide you’re gonna go to. Because if you’re gonna publish it, one of the first things that, as an editor that I look for in any manuscript that’s submitted with original research is a statement from the IRB.”
What do you foresee for the future of the for the journal, especially as it relates to supporting the mission for the Academy of Acute Care physical ?
1. “The primary source of scientific resources for advancing the practice of acute care, physical therapy among clinicians and promoting physical therapy as an integral part of acute care practice. And so what that means to me is as editor and what I have, have proposed to the board of directors of the, of the academy is one of my main goals in the next three to five years is to get the journal indexed in Medline. And what that means is that it would be searchable and included in any kind of search you would do on PubMed with the National Institute of Health.”