In an essay published in the past few weeks in PLOS Medicine, the authors make four proposals for improving medical publications:

1. Introducing publications officers for universities and research institutions
2. Core competency training for medical editors
3. Training authors to write articles “fit for purpose”(in other words, the report is a complete and transparent account of what the researchers did and found, thus maximising the potential usefulness of the article to a broad range of readers)
4. Training for peer reviewers

Read the full article on PLOS Medicine, or download the pdf here