In this week's edition
P'Fella explores an increasing trend of scientific fraud, explains burn fluid resuscitation, shows off a new search function, and deep-dives an important publication in Plastic Surgery.
- ✍️ Letter from P'Fella
Scientific Fraud on Facebook. - 🤓 Study on Sunday + Weekly Quiz
How to calculate burns fluid resuscitation. - 🎭 Upcoming Events
12 upcoming events for you. - 🐣 Tweets of the Week
Memes, viral tweets & educational threads. - 🚀 New Features
New search function & progress bars - 📝 Articles of the Week
3 must-read, 1 deep-dive for thePlasticsPro
You can check it out for yourself here.
To summarise it for you, a guy was happy to put people as authors on upcoming publications if they paid him. Preying on the anxiety of publications leading up to career applications. Essentially, taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable.
In P'Fella's opinion, this is pretty shocking. On so many levels. It brings us back to a big problem in currently in research - scientific fraud.
Chop et al describe scientific fraud as "an act of deception or misrepresentation of one's own work, violates these ethical standards. It can take the form of plagiarism, falsification of data, and irresponsible authorship".
So how prevalent is scientific fraud? Here are some stats on the number of retractions from PubMed. 67.4% of retractions were due to misconduct and 21.3% were due to a genuine mistake. This misconduct ranged from:
- fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%)
- duplicate publication (14.2%)
- plagiarism (9.8%)
The authors of this article state this is a 10x increase in fraud since the 1970s.
Check out the diagram below that gives you a breakdown
Weekly Quiz
Each week, P'Fella asks you one question to test your knowledge. You can now see how others have answered too!
- Australian ASPS Congress - Goldcoast, June 2022
- Aesthetics In-Service Exam - Virtual, June 2022
- PLASTA x RSM Summer Congress 2022 - July 9th
- ISAPS World Congress - Istanbul, July 2022
- ICCPCA Cleft Congress - Edinburgh, July 2022
- ASSH Annual Meeting - Boston, September 2022.
- BAAPS Annual Conference 2022 - London, September 2022.
- European Society of Craniofacial Surgery - September 2022.
- BAPRAS Celtic Meeting - Dunblane, Scotland, September 2022
- Plastic Surgery, The Meeting - Boston, October 2022.
- AEC Limb Reconstruction - Virtual, October 2022
- BAPRAS 2022 Congress - November 2022.
Proyecciones en superficie los músculos en la cara medial del muslo
— Pasión por la Anatomía (@PasionAnatomia) June 22, 2022
📌 AdL: m. aductor largo
📌 AdM: m. aductor mayor
📌 Gr: m. grácil
📌 Rf: m. recto femoral
📌 Sar: m. sartorio
📌 Sem: m. semimembranoso
📌 Set: m. semitendinoso
📌 VMed: m. vasto medial pic.twitter.com/PCuJyJJ734
Becareful with anatomical variations in hand surgery
— HOMID FAHANDEZH (@HOMIDFAHANDEZH) June 21, 2022
Look this distal median and ulnar nerve conection in a patient operated of a thenar motor nerve entrapment pic.twitter.com/AfLeVlC51v
I like this brachial plexus drawing because it is anatomically correct, demonstrates the relevant adjacent anatomy like the clavicle, and you can color it in as you’d like. pic.twitter.com/e42gsJvw1D
— Oren Gottfried, MD (@OGdukeneurosurg) June 20, 2022
P'Fella has improved the way you can SEARCH.
You can now search the topic titles AND the content in that article. Let's say you're trying to find something quite specific. It could be a sentence, paragraph or subheading. Now you can do that.
Check out the video as an example of finding a niche topic: lightning strikes.
3 Top Picks
- Skoff et al. The Psychological and Somatic Consequences of Digital Amputation, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open: June 2022 - Volume 10 - Issue 6 - p e4387
- Jerome et al. Fingertip Injuries Outcome Score, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open: June 2022 - Volume 10 - Issue 6 - p e4386
- Broekstra et al. Disease Course of Primary Dupuytren Disease: 5-Year Results of a Prospective Cohort Study, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: June 2022 - Volume 149 - Issue 6 - p 1371-1378
This Week's Deep Dive.
This is currently under renovation.
As you can prob tell by now, P'Fella is always building and improving. And this section can be better. It is going to be more focused on a "journal club style", maybe even slides for you to present at your own journal club!
Check back next week to see the changes!
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