By Wolfgang Grisold, MD, Walter Struhal, MD, and Steven L. Lewis, MD
World Neurology is planning a column in each issue devoted to neurological education. This new feature will help promote educational concepts and also will serve as a platform for new educational ideas and structures.
Neurologic education and education research are of crucial interest to promote high quality neurologic care throughout the world, and is one of the critical roles of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN).
For example, within the current issue and the previous issue, World Neurology has covered “training stories”— individual experiences reflecting an exchange program or a national curriculum. These and similar articles are important contributions for our global readers.
In future issues, we plan to implement a regular column on neurologic education and educational concepts and ideas. We encourage submissions on educational topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Post-graduate neurologic education
- Continuing medical education
- Quality assurance on a national or international level
- Assessment techniques
- International harmonization of training projects
- Advocacy activities to promote neurologic education nationally or internationally
- Patient education
- Caregiver education
- Public education
World Neurology encourages the submission of short articles with a maximum of 750 words, a short summary, a maximum up to five key references, and up to one figure and one table.
World Neurology appears six times a year, is free, and reaches approximately 18,000 readers. Your contribution will have an impact worldwide.
Wolfgang Grisold, Walter Struhal, and Steven L. Lewis will edit this new initiative. We look forward to reviewing your submissions. Submissions should be sent to traininginneurology@wfneurology.org.
World Neurology is encouraging submissions on a variety of topics related to neurologic education, including, but not limited, to education of neurologic trainees, continuing education, and education of the public. Clockwise top, from left to right. Figure 1 shows neurologists in training in Vienna, Austria, figure 2 shows neurologists attending a continuing neurologic education symposium in Almaty, Kazakhstan in August 2015, and figure 3 shows Patient Day at the World Congress of Neurology in Santiago Chile, October 31, 2015.
