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Instructions for Reviewers

Revised: 21 April 2012
Copyright: (c) 2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

We seek reviewers who genuinely care about providing updated and accurate information for the pathology community. Our website is visited 4 million times per year, so your contributions are important. Although we provide an honorarium, those looking solely for extra income should look elsewhere, because our rates are much less than a pathologist earns in clinical practice.

Specifically, we are looking for reviewers for each of the 7,000 topics in our textbook. We would like reviewers to:

(1) update the topic with new information and new references
(2) ensure that the topic contains material necessary for or interesting to practicing pathologists
(3) correct any substantive errors or text that is incomplete or difficult to understand
(4) add images (your own, or links to other free webpages) or diagrams as needed

Our goal is to make each topic better than it is now. Perfection is not attainable, as pathology information changes frequently. We will email you a link to the topic as it currently exists, and ask you to email us an itemized list of your suggested changes. After we have incorporated the changes, you will have another opportunity to review the topic, until you are satisfied. If you are deleting information, please tell us why.

Our online textbook is different than a written textbook. We have a standard format so visitors can find information quickly, and the topics are easy to read. For that reason, we have intentionally formatted our topics to be in “outline” format, with incomplete sentences. If you believe a sentence is ambiguous, please let us know, but your job is NOT to change the format to one you prefer.

We usually send out 3-4 topics initially. After you have edited those topics and returned them to us, we will make sure that your editing meets our expectations. If so, we will send you more topics to review in the same section. We would like you to finish within 3-4 weeks of receipt. If you need more time, please let us know. If you are unable to review as much as you thought, just let us know.

Each topic should be as complete as possible. If applicable, we would it to include updated clinical features, treatment, 1-2 case reports, gross, micro, cytology, molecular and EM descriptions and images, and positive and negative stains. Important references from PubMed should also be included (we will format them). In particular, we want relevant references from Am J Clin Pathol, Arch Pathol Lab Med, Am J Surg Pathol, Hum Pathol and Mod Pathol. Our other preference is for journals with free full text.

After completing the review, we will post your name on the topics reviewed. We will also post your name and contact information on our Reviewers/Authors page. We pay an honorarium to those who review at least 5 topics. The honorarium is $500 per chapter or pro-rated by the amount of topics in the chapter completed. Payment is by check or PayPal only. If you reside in the U.S. and receive $600 or more per year from us, we will issue you a 1099 form in February of the next year, and will need your social security number or tax identification number. We will contact you one year after the chapter with your topics was completed to see if you want to review the topic(s) again.

If you are interested in being a reviewer, please email your CV to Dr. Nat Pernick, 248/646-0325, NatPernick@Hotmail.com or NatPernick@gmail.com.