Editorial Policies
Peer Review Process
All articles submitted to the journal will undergo,
Immediate review by publishing editors to assess compatibility with the house style and format and check for plagiarism (manually and electronically).
The manuscripts that pass compatibility and plagiarism check will be sent for peer review. The panel of peer reviewers are experts in medical education. A single-blind peer review process will be followed. Reviewers are requested to return their reviews within two weeks. The reviewer recommendations will be:
- Accept without changes
- Accept with changes
- Reject
If the reviewer recommendation is to reject, the manuscript will be sent to a second reviewer.
The Editorial committee will take the final decision based on reviewer recommendations and inform the corresponding author.
Section Policies
Editorial
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Lead Article
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Country Paper
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Reports on matters of regional interest, current scope of medical education, innovations and curricular reforms and quality assurance limited to 2000 words with 3 tables or figures and up to 10 references.
Review Articles
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
A maximum of 3000 words with 30 references using the Harvard style. All articles must include an abstract.
Original Research Paper
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
A maximum of 3000 words with five tables or figures and 30 references using the Harvard style; all articles must include a structured abstract.
Medical Education in Practice
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Short Communications
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Up to 1000 words plus abstract with one table or figure (optional); 5 references.
Letters
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
A maximum of 400 words in length, including title, text, name and address of author(s), and maximum two references included. Tables and figures are not permitted.
Speaker's Corner
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Personal viewpoints and debates on controversial issues can be included. Up to 1000 words and 5 references; up to 3 ‘pull-out’ quotations. Tables, figures, and abstract are not permitted.
Outside the Box
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Short structured reports of innovations in medical education; 750 words with subheadings; Tables, figures, and abstract are not permitted.
Perspective Article
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Abstracts
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Commentary
- Open Submissions
- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed