Your success in publishing your medical research paper will largely depend on how well you follow these ten key principles. Study these points before moving on to the more detailed principles and periodically review key principles during your research project.To shou that your findings can be applied to larger popilations,clearly describe your sample and study and study design.Readers and reviewers will scrutinize your methods before they accept your conclusions. "Worship the spirit of criticism,"Pasteur advised his fellow scientists.Today ,most scientists recognize the importance of this advice,but nearly all prefer the spirit of praise from one particular group:peer reviewers.The bad news is that each year reviewers reject hundreds of thousands of medical manuscripts.The good news is that many are rejected for common flaws that can be avoided.Several books have described how to write a scientific paper,notably those by Robert Day(1994),Edward Huth(1990),and George Hall(1994).My goal in writing Publishing Your Medical Research Paper.What They Don't Teach in Medical Shool was to exserach study and writing a publishable paper.