Pre- and Post-Course Assignments

Pre-course Assignment

Rationale

• Gauge the baseline peer review ability of participants
• Baseline ability can be used as a guide to help with assigning the workshop groups

Assignment description

We request four manuscripts from the partner journal that have passed the peer review stage, but have not yet been published from our journal partner. If not working without a journal partner, any published paper or pre-print would also be sufficient. In order to simulate a “real” peer review process, the participants are then asked to write a review for one of the four manuscripts as if they were getting the request directly from the journal. They then have two weeks to complete the review and are able to request an extension if needed.

Dear Reviewer, Recently, you agreed to review manuscript 03_BMJ-PEERSP-SS25 titled "P2Y12 Inhibitor or Aspirin After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of Randomised Trials.” This is a reminder that your review is due in three days on April 11, 2025 at 12:00 CEST. *Due to current circumstances we understand that you may need more time than usual to complete your review - please let us know if you need a 1-week extension by replying to this email* Sincerely, Claire Dickson-Burke The Peerspectives Team

Post-course Assignment

Rationale

• Assess participants' growth from the course

Assignment description

We use the same four manuscripts that were distributed as the pre-course assignment. For the post-course assignment, we recommend that each participant be assigned one of the four pre-course assignments that they have not previously reviewed.

The teaching team provides feedback on the post-course assignment following submission.

Ideally, based on the timeframe of the course, the manuscripts that the participants have reviewed for the pre and post course assignments will be published shortly after the completion of the course. This way the participants will be able to compare their own reviews to the published reviews for the papers (if partnering with an open review journal).