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Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Editorials
Editorials are usually written by the editor-in-chief or the associate editors, or else solicited by the editorial staff from a well known scholar in an area of interest to the journal. You are welcome, however, to submit an editorial for consideration. Editorials should include a perspective or viewpoint that would be of interest to the journal’s international readership.Innovations
Innovations is the category for which we anticipate the greatest number of submissions.
Active Solicitation Model: A great many medical education innovations are developed and implemented around the world without any plan for dissemination in a scholarly journal. Many medical education innovators are often too burdened with clinical or educational responsibilities or have too little experience with scholarly publication to consider submitting a paper, even though their innovation may be relevant and important for others. Medical Education Development seeks to overcome this problem by (1) actively seeking and encouraging previously unpublished educational innovations; and (2) assisting authors with preparation of a manuscript in a straightforward, structured format. Many submissions will be solicited directed by the editorial board. If you have, however, developed an educational program, tool, or methodology you believe is unique and would be of interest to an international audience, please consider submitting a paper in this category directly to the journal.
Case Studies
Case studies are simply interesting or unique experiences you have had in the area of medical education. Each case study should describe one specific experience with a learner, educator, or program. Case studies should be written in the first person. We are interested in what you learned through the experience or how the experience changed you. Submissions in this category should generally be free of strong opinions, conjectures, or recommendations for others. Case studies are limited to 1000 words.Letters to the Editor
Medical Education Development will regularly publish letters to the editor which directly address content published in the journal.Copyright Notice
PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.
An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:
- the author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
- a complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.