Urging medical students to publish: Advantages, disadvantages and new challenges Gaëlle Rached, Charbel Hobeika, Elias Karam, "Hampig Raphael Kourié, Joseph Kattan Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Medicine, Oncology Department, Beirut, Lebanon Correspondence: Hampig Raphael Kourié, Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Medicine, Oncology Department, Beirut, Lebanon. hampig.kourie@hotmail.com Introduction Throughout history, highly successful physicians have always been defined by their medical knowledge, reasoning skills and ability to communicate properly with their patients. A new factor has recently been added to that list: a physician's publication record. The rapidly expanding numbers of indexed new articles every year demonstrate the growing attention physicians have for academic publications [1]. The main aim is to urge medical students to publish, all the while highlighting advantages alongside the disadvantages publications present. Also, we aim to expose the newest challenges we face in adopting new models for publication. Keywords Publish Medical students Challenges Limitations Advantages Summary As soon as they get accepted into medical school, students find themselves facing numerous expectations: coping with tremendous study burden, competing with others for the best rank, completing internships and participating in the race for publishing are only to name a few. This big juggle makes it hard for the medical student to focus on research. It is often easier to postpone publication and involvement in research to "later''. In fact there are many advantages to publishing in the current publication system but there are many disadvantages as well. With the widespread of social media and open access systems, new challenges have arisen. The aim of this paper is to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of publishing in the current system while highlighting the new challenges that the students might need to overcome. Its aim is to provide medical students with information to enhance their understanding of the current publication system and thus most importantly, probe their desire to publish. Available online: 23 May 2018 tome 105 > n86 > juin 2018 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bulcan.2018.04.005 © 2018 Société Française du Cancer. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. 626 Opinion Bull Cancer 2018; 105: 626–628 en ligne sur / on line on www.em-consulte.com/revue/bulcan www.sciencedirect.com