Description: International forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies that address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community.
Topic Areas: Theoretical and/or practical facets of education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; clinical practice in academic settings; other topics relevant to medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Types of Articles: Articles, perspectives, commentaries, research reports, special features (e.g. letters to the editor).
Acceptance Rate/Time: Acceptance rate: Up to 20%. Goal for notification: 60-90 days.
Description:Forum for scholarly and state-of-the art research into all aspects of health sciences education. For those committed to improvement of health professions education: researchers & educators in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nutrition and related disciplines.
Topic Areas: Admissions, problem-based and self-directed learning, faculty development, achievement testing, motivation, curriculum development, curricular comparisons, program evaluation, expertise development, clinical reasoning, continuing education, community-based education, and communication skills. Quantitative & qualitative research accepted.
Types of Articles: Not listed.
Description: BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research.
Topic Areas: Articles on undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education.
Types of Articles: Research articles, database, debate, software, study protocol, technical advance.
Acceptance Rate/Time: On-line publication upon acceptance (“fast”).
Description:Addresses continuing education and continuing professional development in the health sciences.
Topic Areas: Topics of special interest include: continuous quality improvement, health policy and performance, competency assessment, knowledge translation, team learning, and disease management.
Description:A peer-reviewed publication of the International Association of Medical Science Educators.
Topic Areas: The purpose of this electronic publication is to present scholarly activities, opinions, and resources in medical science education. Submissions that address a wide array of topics are invited.
Types of Articles: Original research manuscripts, reviews, editorials, opinion papers, and announcements of interest to IAMSE members.
Description:Pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals and aims to publish material of the highest quality reflecting world-wide or provocative issues and perspectives.
Topic Areas: The predominant emphasis in Medical Education is on work related to the education of doctors and medical students, and papers on interprofessional education are welcomed.
Types of Articles: Original research papers, review articles, discussion papers, special feature pieces, short reports of research in progress or of educational innovation, commentaries, letters to the editor.
Acceptance Rate/Time: Initial decision within 12 weeks. Decisions on most papers within 8 weeks.
Description: Addresses the needs of teachers and administrators throughout the world involved in training for the health professions. This includes courses at basic and post-basic levels as well as the increasingly important area of continuing education.
Topic Areas: New teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement. A forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. The journal recognizes the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning.
Types of Articles: Articles, short communications, letters.
Description: An international forum for scholarly state-of-the art research on the purposes and processes of teaching and learning the education of medical professionals.
Types of Articles: Perspectives/editorials, analyses/reviews of literature, applied research, research basic to medical education, research methodology, developments, book reviews.