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Opportunities for students

Any NEOMED student is eligible to apply. Leadership positions extend for one year, starting and ending each spring. Applications will be sent out via NEOMED student email.

Executive board members may submit their work to the journal; however, they will not have the ability to act as the reviewer or editor for their submission.
Position descriptions

Roles of all Vice Presidents: to assist the president with journal duties (to lead meetings in the president’s absence, to assist the president with his/her duties), to review and provide feedback on articles, to assist with logistics of the journal regarding review, marketing, formatting, events and more.

Vice President of Operations: to oversee manuscript production workflow, to organize reviewer and editor training, to manage day to day operations for JMS, to serve as point person for OJS software.

Vice President of Production: to run all articles through the plagiarism software, to format all articles, to share all articles with the NEOMED Writing Center for feedback, to upload each article to the OJS and library websites.

Vice President of Education: to oversee Manuscript Writing Workshops (to lead the workshops, to determine presenters), to publicize workshops around campus (flyers, the Pulse, etc).

Vice President of Faculty Relations: to organize the members of the faculty compliance board, to share articles with the faculty compliance board, to locate faculty/affiliate reviewers for all articles and connect editors with determined reviewers.

Vice President of Marketing: to work with NEOMED marketing department, to publish information regarding the JMS on the Pulse, to compile the final issue into one complete and cohesive publication including all necessary components e.g, cover page, disclaimer, welcome note, table of contents, names of members, to prepare flyers, to update campus groups with workshop events, to update our website, to maintain social media including LinkedIn (and possibly expanding social media presence).

Secretary: to record all meeting minutes, to write correspondences on behalf of the journal, and to schedule meetings and workspaces on behalf of the journal.

Treasurer: to oversee the finances of the organization and to collect and distribute funds, including those needed for journal distribution and journal events.

Opportunities for faculty/affiliate members

Faculty/affiliate reviewer input is essential to the success of the NEOMED Journal of Medical Sciences. We so appreciate your interest in acting as a reviewer for the journal. Please reach out to Brook Wyers, [email protected], if you are interested, and she will detail the next steps in the process.

Each paper that the JMS receives gets one faculty reviewer as part of the process. They are the final step in the review process to determine if the paper is ready for publication or if it needs to be sent back to the authors for further review. They are assigned 1-2 papers a year for review, and their specialty of interest usually aligns with the paper’s topics.