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EDITORIALS

SITTING IN THE CATBIRD SEAT

Advances in Physiology Education; June 2001, Volume 25

I feel as if I’ve been sitting in the catbird seat during my 9-year tenure as editor of Advances in Physiology Education. From my viewpoint in this advantageous position, I’ve witnessed a distinct increase in the scholarliness with which physiologists fulfill their roles as educators. Many physiologists are now planning and evaluating their teaching in ways that are as informed, disciplined, and creative as those they use to do bench research–that is, they are becoming scholars in both of these academic roles. They’re learning how to use qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate how students learn best and then how to incorporate their findings into teaching and learning strategies. A review of the papers published in Advances during the 1990s provides evidence for this heartening increase of sophistication in educational research and development.

Sitting in the catbird seat has also revealed to me that publication of this journal is a true partnership among authors, reviewers, and editors. The process is educational for all three groups, not only with respect to the content of manuscripts. During the interaction required to improve manuscripts, each person also learns to express ideas more clearly and gracefully, to write descriptions of innovations more accurately, and to explain and argue points more persuasively. Our editorial policy has favored this kind of fruitful collaboration. Editors and reviewers have often worked with authors through extensive revisions to bring manuscripts up to the high standards of American Physiological Society (APS) journals.

I am gratified that the Publications Committee of the APS decided to make Advances available online to everyone without charge. The journal received over 60,000 hits during the year 2000. Because Advances is online, readers will soon start to join the community of authors, reviewers, and editors who interact to disseminate innovations and research findings on physiology education. Readers will be able to comment on published articles at an online bulletin board. They’ll have the opportunity to extend and enhance the impact of authors’ reports by relating their experience as they try out innovations and apply research findings in their own classrooms.

I leave the editorship with a sincere thank you to everyone I’ve worked with: authors, reviewers, editors, and staff at the APS Editorial Office. I am delighted to welcome Dr. Dee Silverthorn as the incoming occupant of this catbird seat: may she experience the advantage I’ve had of watching over the continued development of the journal in particular, and of physiology education in general.

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