title: The promotion of academic pediatric otolaryngology by journal peer review.
abstract: The professional journal promotes and sustains academic departments through several mechanisms that include peer review, editing, timing, and solicitation of works. The ways in which peer review strengthens and augments academic pediatric otolaryngology are through: the creation of new knowledge; knowledge transfer-teaching; the establishment and development of quality medical/surgical standards; scholarship; and the fostering of the development of the next generation of academic physicians is detailed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bronx, NY 10467-2490, USA. ruben@aecom.yu.edu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Ruben
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000193:education*; D010372:Pediatrics; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013663:Teaching