Canadian Medical Education Journal

Focus and Scope

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 education practitioners in Canada and internationally.

Only manuscripts that have not been published in, or submitted to, other journals will be considered. All research using human subjects must have been approved by an Ethical Review Board and any potential conflict of interest must be reported.

The target audience includes medical and medical education researchers, practitioners and professionals, universities and their students.

Section Policies

Editorial

A member of the editorial board will contribute an editorial piece each issue.  They will range from anecdotal expression to reactions to present trends and issues in the field.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Major Contributions and Research Articles

These articles will be the primary mode of communication for the journal and include the results of recent research with interesting and pertinent findings, and major research articles.  Maximum length is 4,500 words and must be submitted with a 200 word abstract.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Review Papers and Meta-Analyses

Submissions to this section include review and meta-analysis manuscripts and should be limited to 4,500 words.  They must include a 200 word abstract.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Brief Reports

This section includes brief descriptions of works in progress, short communications regarding a matter of topical interest, importance, etc.  All submissions should be limited to 1,500 words.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Comments and Reactions

Submissions will be a reaction, either in support of or in response to a recent article in CMEJ.  They must be limited to 250 words and not include any supporting material i.e. graphs, charts, etc. 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

This section will be limited to reviews of recently released books that pertain in some way to the field of medical education.  They can include textbooks, edited works, etc.  Submissions are to be no more than 1000 words in length and must include a brief, 100 word abstract.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Letters to the Editor

These are meant to be a reaction to a pertinent issue relating to CMEJ, be it a comment relating a recent article, an elaboration of an important discovery, or simply a thought provoking commentary.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Careers

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Conferences

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Events

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The editors will be responsible for directing the manuscripts to the appropriate reviewers who have knowledge and/or expertise in the requisite fields. Each manuscript will be accepted (sometimes on a conditional basis pending suggested revisions) or declined based on the reviewers' comments. In the case of a controversial ground breaking article that could have far-reaching impact on the field, further reviews may be sought. The decision ultimately rests with the chief editor and associate editors.

All comments received from the reviewers will be passed on to the authors within 4-6 weeks. Regardless of whether or not the submission is accepted for publication, it is essential that appropriate feedback be provided to the contributors.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Copyright

Submission of an original manuscript to the Journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication, and that the author is willing to assign copyright to the journal as per a contract that will be sent to the author just prior to publication.  If accepted for publication, it will be published online and it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, for commercial purposes, in any language, without the consent of the publisher.

Publication of scholarly research is meant to disseminate knowledge and, in a not-for-profit regime, benefits neither publisher nor author financially.

Authors who publish in the Canadian Medical Education Journal agree to release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada Licence. This licence allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights an author grants users of their work, please see the licence summary and the full licence.