Instructions for Writing Your Chapter
Dear Meet the Professor Faculty:
We look forward to your participation in the upcoming Meet the Professor (MTP) session at the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting, ENDO 2024, June 1-4, 2024, in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to the interactive, case-based session at the meeting, you will be writing a chapter that will be included in the MTP book. This publication is intended to be a written companion for the live sessions, but also a standalone, independent educational resource. MTP serves as a platform for you, the expert, to impart nuances of clinical management that may not be found in guidelines. Readers look forward to learning clinical pearls from leaders in the field.
This document is a guide for writing your chapter.
| December 11, 2023 | MTP Discussion Chapter due |
| Late December 2023 – Early January 2024 | ENDO staff quality assurance check and permissions review. Peer Review with ENDO 2024 Annual Meeting Steering Committee (AMSC). |
| January – Early March 2024 | Review and copy editing by medical editor. |
| March – May 2024 | Print and ePub layout and formatting. |
| May 22, 2024 | MTP books ship to convention center. |
| June 1 – 4, 2024 | ENDO 2024 in Boston, MA. |
For returning MTP contributors, please note the formatting guidelines have changed from previous years. This is to provide greater consistency across the book chapters and other similar Endocrine Society products. If your submitted chapter does not follow the below guidelines (such as going over the page count), you may be asked to make revisions.
Your chapter (including references) should be:
Your chapter should include no more than 10 “Assets” such as images, tables, graphs, boxes, etc.
Assets should be provided in a separate document as a .EPS, .TIF, PDF, Power Point, or Word file. For best image quality, Assets should be provided in one of the following sizes and pixel quality at least 300 dpi:
Figure Size
Table Size
Box Size
Color images will be converted to grayscale within the text of the physical book but will be available in full color in the ePUB and PDF versions.
Please indicate if an image or table is:
If a patient can self-identify in a photograph or image, signed consent must be available.
Laboratory Units
More than 40% of learners who reference the Endocrine Case Management book are not from the United States. Please incorporate both conventional and SI units when presenting laboratory data. Click to download a simple SI Unit Converter Tool.
The Endocrine Society will copyright the MTP book and may use or adapt it for educational materials targeted at a broader audience of clinicians.
Title:
[Insert title]
Author(s):
[Insert Author Name and Earned Degrees, Author Affiliation (Department, Institution, City, State, Country), Author E-mail]
Learning Objectives
[Draft 2 to 3 learning objectives, using verbs such as: “Illustrate, Recommend, Identify, Manage, Diagnose, Explain, etc.]
After reviewing this chapter, learners should be able to:
Significance of the Clinical Problem
[In 1 to 3 paragraphs, provide an introduction and relevant background information about your topic.]
Practice Gaps
[In bulleted format, list 2 or more gaps in knowledge, skill, or practice related to physician competence and patient outcomes.]
Discussion
[Write a 1- to 2-page didactic discussion that illustrates the important concepts of your presentation. You may include headings to organize the text.]
Clinical Case Vignettes
[Write 3 clinical case vignettes that illustrate the main points of your MTP presentation. The vignettes should adhere to the Vignette-Writing Guidelines (at the bottom of this document), which are NEW this year. Consider designing vignettes that have multiple questions, each addressing a different aspect of the patient’s care (eg, diagnosis, treatment, management). For example, the first question following a clinical vignette might ask about screening or diagnosis, while the second question might pose a query about treatment.]
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Key Learning Points
[In bulleted format, summarize the main points of your chapter. Aim for 3 to 6 takeaways.]
References
[List 15 or fewer references. Aim to use peer-reviewed articles cited in PubMed. Avoid including textbooks or online sources such as UpToDate or EndoText. References should be cited consecutively (numerical order) in the chapter.]
Stem
Write a brief clinical vignette (<200 words) to set the stage for the question and to provide clinical context. Only include relevant information necessary to answer the question.
Question
Avoid these structural flaws when writing questions:
Answer Options
Discussion/Rationale
Briefly address the correct answer and each distracter (1 – 2 sentences).