Re: We need to investigate whether racial discrimination explains differences in MRCGP exam results
I thank Dr Ilangaratne for the chance to clarify our process for selecting letters.
Every week on a Thursday we read through the rapid responses that have been posted to the articles included in the print issue published the Saturday before. In other words, we select letters from the rapid responses to articles posted since their online publication up to the first 12 days after print publication. The ideal is that we publish correspondence to any print article in three weeks.
Every week we also look at responses posted to earlier print issues than the week we are considering--the so called "late" and "out of the blue" letters.
In the case cited by Dr Ilangaratne, we selected the correspondence for the article in the usual way but publication was delayed for a week while several authors shortened their responses to letters. During this time Professor Bhopal submitted his rapid response; we liked it as a late letter and had time to join it up with the others.
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Re: We need to investigate whether racial discrimination explains differences in MRCGP exam results
I thank Dr Ilangaratne for the chance to clarify our process for selecting letters.
Every week on a Thursday we read through the rapid responses that have been posted to the articles included in the print issue published the Saturday before. In other words, we select letters from the rapid responses to articles posted since their online publication up to the first 12 days after print publication. The ideal is that we publish correspondence to any print article in three weeks.
Every week we also look at responses posted to earlier print issues than the week we are considering--the so called "late" and "out of the blue" letters.
In the case cited by Dr Ilangaratne, we selected the correspondence for the article in the usual way but publication was delayed for a week while several authors shortened their responses to letters. During this time Professor Bhopal submitted his rapid response; we liked it as a late letter and had time to join it up with the others.
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