Journals
Academic Medicine
Affiliated organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Policy and conceptual work fit well here as well as large research studies (multi-institutional). Innovations with strong evaluations. The RIME supplement is a great venue for all other theory driven, high quality, discovery research or reviews.
Description from Journal Website: The journal serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal’s areas of focus include: education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings. It also accepts case studies of education initiatives (see April 2010 for guidelines) and published an editorial of how to get your innovations published (August 2008).
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Instructions for authors (to the right of the main screen)
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Audience is mostly scientists and professional researchers - theory driven, theory testing work. Big R research. Highly competitive.
Description from Journal Website: AHSE is a forum for scholarly and state-of-the art research into all aspects of health sciences education. It will publish empirical studies as well as discussions of theoretical issues and practical implications. The primary focus of the Journal is linking theory to practice, thus priority will be given to papers that have a sound theoretical basis and strong methodology. The Journal will accept articles on topics such as 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. All rigorous methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, are encouraged. It is aimed at all those committed to the improvement of health professions education: researchers and educators in the fields of medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nutrition and related disciplines.
AERA Oopen
Affiliated organization: American Educational Research Association
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: A peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). With an emphasis on rapid review and dissemination, AERA Open aims to advance knowledge through theoretical and empirical study across arenas of inquiry related to education and learning. AERA Open will publish important cumulative and incremental research. It also aims to publish at the cutting edge, serving as a forum for innovation, new inquiry and ideas, interdisciplinary bridge building, and work that fosters the connection of research to policy and
practice.
Topics: education research, formal and informal education, research and development, education and other social institutions in society, early and later stages of human development, and scientific and humanistic study
Types of Manuscripts: quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method empirical studies, replications, or meta-analyses on a broad range of topics related to education in any context, including those that report precisely-defined null findings. We also publish innovative conceptual articles that make exceptional contributions in illuminating learning processes and outcomes or methodological articles that offer new approaches in the collection or analysis of data.
AMEE MedEdPublish
Affiliated organization: The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Open Access Publication Fee: £90 per paper charged to non-members of AMEE
Description from Journal Website: An open-access e-journal designed to help members of the medical and health professions education community to publish their work and receive reviews and comments from experts and peers. Papers are published rapidly after a “light touch” screening to ensure they meet minimum standards. The peer review process starts following publication, with reviews from the panel of reviewers and the health professions education community more widely.
AMEE MedEdPublish invites the submission of papers addressing any theme of relevance to healthcare professionals' education. These can include: Original articles, New Research, Replication of previous studies, Study with negative findings, Pilot Study, Case study, New education methods, Practical tips and guidelines, Personal view and opinion pieces, Systematic review, Review of books, papers, reports and resources, Commentary, Letter.
BMC Medical Education
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Open Access Publication Fee: A fee to non-members of $2145 for each article accepted for publication.
Description from Journal Website: BMC Medical Education is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.
The BMJ
Affiliated organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Open Access Publication Fee: Charges £3000 upon acceptance.
Summary: Prioritizes large random control trials. Highly competitive. Audience is clinicians and researchers with a mandate to improve outcomes for patients. Stories sometimes take up by the UK popular press. Accepts only 7% of submissions.
Description from Journal Website: The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully online first publication. The website is updated daily with original articles, podcasts, videos, and blogs and organised into four main content streams—research, education, news and views, and campaigns. In addition, the site is fully searchable, with an archive back to 1840 and numerous topic collections on clinical and non-clinical subjects. Articles of relevance to specific countries and regions are grouped together on country portals. Original research is published in full on thebmj.com, with open access and no limits on word counts. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors make better decisions. To achieve these aims we publish original research articles, review and educational articles, news, letters, investigative journalism, and articles commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. We are delighted to consider articles for publication from doctors and others, and from anywhere in the world.
Canadian Medical Education Journal
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Small studies resident projects fit well here. It is a growing journal that accepts many formats in both research and innovation. Moderately competitive.
Description from Journal Website: The Canadian Medical Education Journal is an online, open-access peer-reviewed journal exploring new developments and perspectives in the field of medical education from premedical to postgraduate and continuing medical education. It examines the quantitative and qualitative aspects of prominent issues relating to the education, training and maintenance of health care professionals. Furthermore, it provides a forum for discussion specific to the challenges faced by medical educators, especially in Canada but also internationally. The target audience includes medical education researchers, practitioners and professionals, universities and their trainees. Only manuscripts that have not been published in, or submitted to, other journals will be considered.
Canadian Family Physician
Affiliated organization: The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: Our mission is to ensure that practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers are informed on current issues and in touch with the latest thinking in the discipline of family medicine; to serve family physicians in all types of practice in every part of Canada in both official languages; to advance the continuing development of family medicine as a discipline; and to contribute to the ongoing improvement of patient care. CFP includes clinical practice articles that are a practical, hands-on, how-to, what’s-new of FM, a commentary section and a research section featuring original Canadian research that advances our understanding of the practice of family medicine. There is also a specific section dedicated to Teaching Moments.
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Affiliated organization: Canadian Medical Association
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: CMAJ is an international general medical journal that seeks to publish, in print and electronic form, "medical knowledge that matters." We publish original research, reviews, analyses, practice articles, guidelines, commentaries, medical news, letters and editorials. Our authors may come from any discipline, but our main audience comprises medical professionals. Accepted articles are published at cmaj.ca, which is the journal of record as used by PubMed and other indexers. We curate some articles for our print editions, received by subscribers and members of the Canadian Medical Association, which owns CMAJ.
The Clinical Teacher
Affiliated organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Shorter pieces focused on innovation or small evaluations. This is not a journal for theory driven work. Moderately competitive.
Description from Journal Website: The Clinical Teacher is an online journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting. It provides easy access to the latest research, practice and thinking in clinical education across the health professions, presented in a readable, stimulating and practical style. There are sections on specific teaching approaches, reports and evaluation of innovative learning activities, a digest of the latest research published in Medical Education and other relevant journals, reports of innovative thinking and advances in clinical teaching from around the world, and expert commentary and discussion on challenging and controversial issues in today's clinical education. The international editorial team behind The Clinical Teacher is acutely aware of the demands on clinicians’ time. All papers are concise, and focus on the topics that matter. They are reviewed and edited to high standards by a strong technical and clinically orientated international editorial board to ensure that clinical teachers are provided with easily assimilated and up-to-date information. Clinical teachers are renowned for the passion they bring to their work. The Clinical Teacher aims to support that work, and to help share the passion with colleagues internationally.
Education for Health
Affiliated organization: The Network: Towards Unity for Health
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: The journal publishes original studies, reviews, think pieces, works in progress and commentaries on current trends, issues, and controversies. EFH especially wants to provide its international readers with fresh ideas and innovative models of education and health services that can enable them to be maximally responsive to the healthcare needs of the communities in which they work and learn.
Topics: Innovative models of education targeted to health professions students and practitioners to provide high quality health care that meets the needs of individuals, families, and communities, innovative models of community-based health care delivery and studies of the impact and effectiveness of these models, programs and research on collaborations between academia and health services, with the goal of community health improvement, interdisciplinary approaches to health professions education and service delivery, and models and systems of education, research, and service delivery that link, and have implications for, both economically advantaged and economically disadvantaged countries.
Types of Manuscripts: General articles, research reports, position papers, practical advice papers, brief communications, letters to the editor, and articles in specific formats.
Audience: Health professionals, health professions educators and learners, health care researchers, policymakers, community leaders and administrators from all over the world.
Evaluation and the Health Science Professions
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Assessment work across the spectrum of education would fit well. Well validated questionnaire or survey work may be a good fit.
Description from Journal Website: Provides health-related professionals with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical tools for conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and problems, and developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs, teaching and training services, and products that pertain to a myriad of health dimensions. It is designed to provide a forum for keeping health professionals abreast of the latest technological advances in evaluation research methods through practitioner friendly articles, as well as provide the results of important evaluations. Further, the Journal is designed to provide a forum for debate of timely evaluation issues in health research and evaluation. Most recently Evaluation & the Health Professions has dedicated itself to issues related to translation research.
Family Medicine
Affiliated organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: The journal publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, particularly focusing on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research. We seek to be a forum for peer-reviewed scholarship regarding how to create a workforce to provide cost effective care to populations of people. Manuscripts published in Family Medicine fall into five general categories: (1) Original Articles, (2) Brief Reports, (3) Narrative Essays (4) Letters to the Editor, and (5) Book and Media Reviews. Family Medicine does not publish clinical review articles.
Focus on Health Professional Education
Affiliated organization: Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: The multi-professional nature of the journal is reflected in the editorial board, editorial policy and balance of articles. The journal focuses on regional issues and concerns. The journal primarily serves Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific Region. Nonetheless it maintains an international outlook and deals with issues of global concern. It also focuses on teaching and learning. There are demonstrated links between high quality education and improved outcomes for health care. The journal provides a forum where these issues can be examined and advanced. Contributions by junior researchers are particularly encouraged.
Topics: Teaching and learning, curriculum design, assessment and evaluation in support of better professional practice, and a focus on diverse and stimulating ideas, controversial, challenging and substantive issues facing health professional educators and students.
Types of Manuscripts: Scholarly papers, reports on innovations and research in progress, conference reports and short discussion papers on issues of current importance to education in the health professions.
Audience: Educators, clinicians and students who have a commitment to improving health care through better learning and teaching.
International Journal of Medical Education
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: IJME is an international, peer reviewed, open-access journal aimed at promoting the nature and scope of the knowledge that is directly relevant to all domains of medical education and practice. The aims of IJME are very flexible and cover the whole range of education and training in medical and clinical education and allied health education and medical sciences, including dentistry, nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy. This includes but is not limited to: Curriculum Planning and Development (Basic Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education), Curriculum Themes, Continuing Professional Development, Pedagogic Practice, Learning Situations, Simulation-Based Medical Education, Communication Skills, Assessment, Student Selection, Development of Medical Education Research, Clinical Decision-Making, Internationalization of Medical Education, Medical Education and Leadership, and Evaluation Research.
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Affiliated organizations: The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, the Association for Hospital Medical Education, and the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: The Journal of Continuing Education is a quarterly journal publishing articles relevant to theory, practice, and policy development for continuing education in the health sciences. The journal presents original research and essays on subjects involving the lifelong learning of professionals, with a focus on continuous quality improvement, competency assessment, and knowledge translation. It provides thoughtful advice to those who develop, conduct, and evaluate continuing education programs. Issues contain: Original Research,
Journal of Graduate Medical Education
Affiliated organization: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: JGME disseminates scholarship and promotes critical inquiry to inform and engage the graduate medical education community to improve the quality of graduate medical education. The journal is devoted to original research, educational innovations, review articles, and commentaries about graduate medical education and related matters relevant to the education of residents and fellows and to the settings in which such education occurs. The Journal also publishes perspectives, brief reports, letters to the editor, personal essays on teaching, and invited guest editorials.
Journal of Interprofessional Care
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: The Journal of Interprofessional Care aims to disseminate research and new developments in the field of interprofessional education and practice. The Journal is disseminated internationally and encourages submissions from around the world.
Topics: Explicit interprofessional focus, involving a range of settings, professions, and fields, primary, community and hospital care, health education and public health, and beyond health and social care into fields such as criminal justice and primary/elementary education.
Types of Manuscripts: Original research articles, systematic/analytical reviews and theoretical papers that focus on an element of interprofessional education or practice, short reports that describe research in progress or completed, or an innovation in the field of interprofessional care, and, in addition, each issue of the Journal contains editorials (usually invited, but unsolicited editorials will be considered) and book reviews.
Audience: Interprofessional.
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: An international, peer reviewed, open access journal that focuses on publishing timely information on medical education practices and development including basic science, clinical, and postgraduate medical education. It aims to present articles that assist educators in the evaluation of curriculum development, methods of instruction, individualized learning practices, and of student and faculty assessment. The journal has a particular interest in novel ways to improve upon existing curricula, designing of new curricular materials to engage students more effectively, effectiveness of large didactic lecture formats versus small group learning for teaching effectiveness, the value of independent learning assessments on education, and methods to improve effective teaching in the classroom.
Topics: Medical sciences, education
Types of Manuscripts: case report, commentary, concise review, debate, dedication, editorial, expert review, image of interest, letter to the editor, meeting report, methodology, opinion, original research, perspective, rapid communication, research proposal, review, short commentary, short report, short review, software of database review, and technical advance.
Audience: basic science, clinical, and postgraduate medical education educators.
Journal of Medical Education and Training
Affiliated organization: Scientific Open Access Journals (SOAJ)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: Journal of Medical Education and Training is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, integrating information on medical education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. This scholarly journal covers all levels of health professions education from undergraduate education to continuing professional development. The journal has a special focus on education and training of physicians, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, continuing medical education, online medical education, residency training and fellowship training.
Topics: Research in all aspects of medical education and training covering medical, nursing, and other health care disciplines.
Types of Manuscripts: Research articles, reviews, brief communications, case studies and letters, etc.
Medical Education
Affiliated Organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: The premier education research journal for medical education. Theory driven work would fit well as well as more applied work that has very strong methods and evaluation. Innovation reports are rare through the "Really Good Stuff" is a possible venue for short pieces. Highly competitive.
Description from Journal Website: Medical Education is an international peer-reviewed, journal with distribution to readers in more than 80 countries. The journal seeks to enhance its position as the pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals and aims to publish material of the highest quality reflecting worldwide or provocative issues and perspectives. The contents will be of interest to learners, teachers and researchers. It aims to have a significant impact on scholarship in medical education and, ultimately, on the quality of health care by prioritising papers that offer a fundamental advance in understanding of educationally relevant issues. The journal welcomes papers on any aspect of health professional education. Sections include: original research, review articles, cross-cutting edge, “really good stuff”, commentaries, “when I say”, and letters.
Medical Education Online
Affiliated organization: n/a
Open Access Publication fee: USD $1500 for up to 8 pages
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: Medical Education Online is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal for disseminating information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. It was launched in 1996 as the first ever freely available online journal in the field of medical education and has since then grown to become a highly regarded source of information in this area. MEO publishes Editorials, Original articles, Review articles, Letters to the Editor, and Book reviews.
Medical Science Educator
Affiliated organization: International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: A peer-reviewed source for current information on scholarly activities, opinion, research and resources in medical science education. Presents the latest scholarly activities, opinions and resources in modern medical science education. Covers basic science education, clinical teaching and incorporation of new educational technologies. This journal publishes articles which focus on teaching the sciences that are fundamental to modern medicine and health. Coverage includes basic science education, clinical teaching and the incorporation of modern educational technologies.
Medical Teacher
Affiliated organization: Association for Medical Education in Europe
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: A journal with an applied focus: innovations, applied research and evaluation. This is a highly competitive journal with some specialty sections already over-subscribed.
Description from Journal Website: Medical Teacher 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. Medical Teacher provides accounts of new teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and serves as a forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. In particular, the journal recognises the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum, from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision, is also changing. The journal features reports of innovation and research in medical education, case studies, survey articles, practical guidelines, reviews of current literature and book reviews.
Open Review of Educational Research
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description: This journal publishes papers from a multidisciplinary perspective, accepting both quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as articles that employ historical or philosophical orientations. The Journal will be underpinned by an approach to educational studies and research that is committed to the principles of openness in education and research, and by philosophies of education that seek to explore the purpose of education and the role of new open technologies that promote greater exchange, interactivity, sharing and collaboration across academic specialties and across cultures.
Topics: education, education studies, educational research, open and distance education and eLearning, philosophy of education, teachers and teacher education.
Types of Manuscripts: qualitative studies, quantitative studies, historical, philosophical, literature reviews, non-standard contributions.
Audience: Education and research professionals.
Perspectives on Medical Education
Affiliated organization: Netherlands Association for Medical Education
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Summary: This is a growing journal that is moderately competitive. Research is a better fit than innovation or intervention reports. It hosts both theory and applied work (similar to Medical Education) but has a wider range of publishing venues. International work is valued.
Description from Journal Website: Perspectives on Medical Education aims to provide an international platform for innovation and research in health professions education. The readers of the Journal are clinical and preclinical health care professionals, educationalists, policy makers, students and other professionals with an interest in health professions education. It invites the following types of submissions: Original Articles, Review Articles, Eye Openers, Replication Studies, Show and Tell, PhD Report, Health Care and the Arts, Debate in Medical Education, Letters.
PRIMER (Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research)
Affiliated organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Summary:
Description from Journal Website: PRiMER is an open access scholarly journal that publishes original research briefs relevant to education in family medicine and closely related areas. As a companion to other STFM journals, PRiMER is focused on medical education and health workforce policy. PRiMER fills a gap between the presentation of research results at conferences and the development of full-length articles that would be suitable for submission to traditional print journals, such as Family Medicine.
Teaching and Learning in Medicine
Affiliated organization: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: An international, forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions. Its international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all medical educators: fostering the development of capable, well-rounded, and continuous learners prepared to practice in a complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environment. TLM's contributors and readership comprise behavioral scientists and health care practitioners, signaling the value of integrating diverse perspectives into a comprehensive understanding of learning and performance. The journal seeks to provide the theoretical foundations and practical analysis needed for effective educational decision making in such areas as admissions, instructional design and delivery, performance assessment, remediation, technology-assisted instruction, diversity management, and faculty development, among others. TLM's scope includes all levels of medical education, from premedical to postgraduate and continuing medical education, with articles published in the following categories: groundwork, validation, investigations, educational case reports, observations.