Welcome to this page where you will find information about the process of registering, conducting and writing up a BEME review.

You can discuss your ideas for a review topic and how to find others interested in joining you in this work with Dr Marilyn Hammick, the BEME Consultant at beme.collaboration@warwick.ac.uk.

Once you have identified a topic and have found others to work with you, you need to complete a BEME protocol. This is a brief summary of what you plan to do: including the review question, team of reviewers and a brief overview of how to plan to conduct the review. It should be no more than 2 pages and examples of protocols for reviews currently in progress are available on the website.

Once the protocol has been peer reviewed and accepted it will be posted on the BEME website. We also ask for annual updates on the progress of your review and many review groups present their work-in-progress at AMEE annual conferences.

BEME Guide 13 is available to assist review groups as well as email/telephone support. Some review groups have identified funding for training and details of this are available from Marilyn.

Some general guidelines on writing up are available and you are welcome to discuss the issues related to writing up a systemic review with Marilyn. Following peer review BEME reviews are published in Medical Teacher and as individual BEME Guides. All reviews appear in full on the BEME website with a Spotlight (a short paper with the review’s key messages) and links to other resources related to the review topic. Sessions at the AMEE annual conference are set aside for reviewers to present and discuss completed reviews.

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