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Tomorrow’s Cure: Mayo Clinic Proceedings
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This episode of "Tomorrow's Cure" explores the importance of shepherding discovery through one of the most prominent journals in the field, Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Listen as Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a Mayo Clinic hematologist and oncologist and an associate editor for the journal, and Dr. Karl Nath, a Mayo Clinic nephrologist and current editor, as they talk about the journal's 100 years of history and its future.
Prior to its early format as an internal newsletter, the Mayo brothers hired Maud Mellish Wilson to serve as librarian and organizer of editorial materials in 1907. Around 1919, she began taking notes at a recurring weekly meeting to discuss discoveries. That meeting grew with the clinic, and consultants began to travel to other places to learn and discuss medicine. As faculty grew, the inability to gather them all in one meeting sparked the development of the Bulletin of the Mayo Foundation, which evolved into a full-fledged journal in 1926.
The editors talk with host Cathy Wurzer about the value of peer-reviewed research and experts in a field gathering to encourage and debate scientific progress. "We have to take ourselves with a lot of caution and seriousness because once it's published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings with the Mayo brand, it carries a certain level of trust," says Dr. Rajkumar.
The podcast also explores what future iterations of scientific journals could look like and how they engage social media, including a new Fellowship in Training Editors program the group could introduce as early as this year. Advances in AI, digital health and more will continue to change the mechanics of journals. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is already using YouTube to its advantage. "(Social media) is a roadmap for communication for humanity in whatever form or setting," says Dr. Nath.
In this conversation, the editors also talk about the breakthrough research first published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings from using viruses to treat cancer to a platelet-derived exosome product that affects tissues and promotes healing. These wide-reaching discoveries and more were first published in the journal and continue to influence their fields.
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