The Endocrine Society Manuscript Reviewer CME Credit Guidelines

Thank you for agreeing to review this manuscript. You are to grade its merits using the scales provided in the Rapid Review form. These scales are intended to help you rate the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript. You will need to tailor your judgments to the type of manuscript under consideration.

Please visit our website at http://jcem.endojournals.org/misc/endoethics.shtml for further details on guidelines and faculty disclosures of potential conflicts of interest.

The Endocrine Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Endocrine Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

To claim CME credit, you must first review the disclosure information for the appropriate journal's Editor in Chief and Associate Editors: 

• JCEM
• Endocrinology
• Molecular Endocrinology
• Endocrine Reviews
  

Then complete the CME Self-Assessment and Evaluation Questions for Reviewers when completing your review online.

Purpose/Need

Clinical Endocrinologists serve a unique and essential role as an integrative force in medical practice. To that end, they must maintain a thorough knowledge and understanding of the most recent issues and developments in the field of endocrinology, to ensure the highest standard of care for patients with endocrine disorders. One means of providing that knowledge and understanding is the process of manuscript review. Review of manuscripts being considered for publication in The Endocrine Society's journals, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology, and Endocrine Reviews, provides a format for learning, helps reviewers to improve their skills in performing critical analysis of the medical literature, and ultimately improves the quality of the resulting publications. 

Clinical and basic investigators and clinicians in endocrinology and metabolism

• Improve their skills in performing critical analyses of the medical literature.
• Improve their knowledge of current issues and developments in the field of endocrinology and allied sciences.
• Improve their behavior and performance in practice.

We thank you for your time and cooperation.