About the Journal

Medical Education and Practice is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that aims to present and publish research on Medical Education.The journal covers a broad range of fields including medical, dental, nursing, allied health care, professional education and focuses on undergraduate education, postgraduate training, and continuing medical education.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Journal Ethics

 Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., 

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Digital Archiving

Journal provides for long-term digital preservation through two primary partnerships, Portico and CLOCKSS.

Portico is a leading digital preservation service worldwide. The content is preserved as an archival version and is not publically accessible via Portico, but is provided when required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website.

CLOCKSS will enable any library to maintain their own archive of content from journal and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply available hardware.

 

  Scope of the journal Medical Education and Practice is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that aims to present and publish research on Medical Education. The journal publishes Advance in Medical Research and reviews, practice guidelines, summaries of published studies and evidence-based medicine, original research articles, case reports, commentaries, image-based CME, clinical practice stories, interviews, and special features in all disciplines of medical science. The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to broad specialties, medical specialties, surgical specialties, pre-clinical specialties/ basic science and allied health sciences. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference. Another important aim of the journal is medical education and articles that fully or partly fulfil this aim of promoting medical education will be given priority.