Research
and Treatment Bulletin (RTB)
Co-ordinator: Paul Blanchard
(p.blanchard@bso.ac.uk)
RTB is a not-for-profit publication
that aims to provide a review of the most important
advances related to
clinical osteopathic management and research.
The BSO has successfully published an in-house journal,
the Osteopathic Research and Treatment Bulletin (ORTB),
since the beginning of 2001. Following negotiations
in 2007 with the leading journal in the field of osteopathy
this initiative evolved into a subsection of The International
Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (IJOM) and is now published
as the Research and Treatment Bulletin (RTB). This
joint venture sees the BSO acting as subsection coordinator,
with the publishing now handled by Elsevier - the world’s
leading publisher of science and health information.
An RTB subsection has been incorporated into IJOM
throughout 2008 with an expanding pool of contributors
from osteopathic educational institutions as well as
private practitioners internationally. Although the
RTB now reaches a far wider audience, it remains an
integral part of the research and scholarship strategy
at the BSO. As a review of recent publications and
conference reports with relevance to the field of osteopathy,
it keeps staff informed and up-to-date. Encouraging
academic staff to review papers and write reports on
meetings also provides opportunities for the development
of key skills in critical reading and writing.
An expanded edition, to run alongside the IJOM supplement,
is scheduled for in-house publication in 2009. In addition
to the IJOM materials this will give additional space
and scope for a larger number of articles generated
by the BSO faculty. It will also contain a directory
of continuing professional development (CPD) activities
and relevant upcoming meetings. The longer-term vision
is to use RTB as a vehicle for the targeted dissemination
of peer-reviewed published papers to the BSO faculty
in their self-declared areas of interest. Critical
reading and review for RTB provides continuing professional
development opportunities for staff. These elements
contribute to our aim to see our research ethos evolve
and raise standards of scholarship throughout the BSO.
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