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Clinical Showcase

What is the formula for Clinical Showcase?

• Pick an interesting case of a patient you treated. This case should be well documented with photos and should have some teaching merit. Our aim is to have our readers learn something interesting from seeing the presentation.


• This case should not have been published previously.


• An introductory section tells our readers why we are showing this case and gives them some background about the patient or the particular condition (local or systemic) that makes the case interesting from a learning perspective.


• The case presentation itself uses approximately 20 illustrations to walk our readers through the procedure. The figure captions can tell much of the story. Text can tell readers about specifics of armamentarium or particular “tips or tricks” that you, the clinician, used for managing this case.


• Digital images need to have a high enough resolution for print publication. Photos must be at least 300 dpi when sized to 3.33” x 2.125” (or at least 1,000 pixels along the largest dimension). Only TIFF or JPG formats will be accepted.


• The case is finished off with a short “lessons to be learned” discussion.


• A few references may be inserted; however, this is not necessary since the focus is very much clinical and “how to”.


• Ideally, less than 1,000 words should be used to tell the story as we prefer our Clinical Showcase presentations to take no more than 3 pages of JCDA.


• An example of a Clinical Showcase can be found at: www.cda-adc.ca/jcda/vol-74/issue-4/345.pdf

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Point of Care

What is the formula for Point of Care?

• First, we need a focused clinical question — the type that dentists ask CE presenters during the coffee break at their presentation. A question must lend itself to a response of 700–800 words in length.


• Ideally, the response is based loosely on the format of a clinical practice guideline (although we have a disclaimer that indicates that these Point of Care Q&As are NOT clinical practice guidelines).


• The format we favour is a response in 2 sections. Many of the Q&A responses lend themselves to division into a “Background to the Issue” section and a “Management of the Issue” section. The former contains 2 or 3 paragraphs of the type of information that is usually found in the Introduction section of a review or research article. The latter section often outlines, in a recipe book format, what the respondent does to handle the particular situation under discussion, or else the section may set out (almost in algorithm form) the choices the clinician has when facing a particular situation.


• Up to 6 images can be used to illustrate the response. Digital images need to have a high enough resolution for print publication. Photos must be at least 300 dpi when sized to 3.33” x 2.125” (or at least 1,000 pixels along the largest dimension). Only TIFF or JPG formats will be accepted.


• The response can include a small number of references (often to review articles) to allow the curious reader to follow-up and get more information on the topic presented.


• An example of a Point of Care section can be found at: www.cda-adc.ca/jcda/vol-74/issue-2/147.pdf

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