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MEDICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR
The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators
Instructions for Authors
Mission of the Journal
Medical Science Educator is the peer reviewed
publication of the International Association of Medical
Science Educators (IAMSE). The Journal offers all who
teach in healthcare the most current information to
succeed in their task by publishing scholarly activities,
opinions, and resources in medical science education.
Published articles focus on teaching the sciences
fundamental to modern medicine and health, and include
basic science education, clinical teaching, and the use of
modern education technologies.
Manuscript criteria
Medical Science Educator considers all manuscripts on
the strict condition that they are the property (copyright)
of the submitting author(s), have been submitted only to
Medical Science Educator, that they have not been
published already, nor are they under consideration for
publication, nor in press elsewhere. Medical Science
Educator considers all manuscripts at the Editors'
discretion; the Editors' decision is final.
Medical Science Educator invites the following types of
submissions: Short Communication, Original Research,
Innovation, Opinion, Commentary, Monograph, Medical
Education Case Report, Letter to the Editor, Review and
Meeting Report. All parts of the manuscript must be
available in an electronic format; those recommended are:
generic rich text format (RTF) or Microsoft Word for text,
and JPEG for graphics. Papers not correctly formatted
will be returned to the authors for correction and
resubmission. Manuscripts should be submitted through
the website. The manuscript should be double-spaced
with a wide margin (at least 3 cm) on either side. All pages
should be numbered. Do not use abbreviations. All
scientific units should be expressed in SI units. Before
submission please remove fields from automatic
referencing programs and switch off change tracking.
Please supply a word count. Where figures, tables or
illustrations from other publications have been used,
appropriate permissions should be obtained prior to
submission. Referencing should be set out in double
spacing in the Vancouver style. References are to be listed
numerically by order of appearance in the text, and
should be indicated by the superscripted number of the
reference immediately following punctuation. Please see
the Journals website www.medicalscienceeducator.org for
a sample article for your convenience.
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals (see http://www.icmje.org/) and the
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of
Conduct (see http://publicationethics.org/). Authors are
responsible for all statements made in their work.
When authors report experiments that involve human
subjects, an indication of institutional Internal Review
Board (IRB) approval or exemption should be indicated,
either in the text of the manuscript or directly to the
Editor-in-Chief. When informed consent has been
obtained it should be included in the paper. If informed
consent has not been obtained then the anonymity of the
subject must be maintained.
Editorial and peer review process
All submitted manuscripts are read initially by the Editorin-Chief.
One or more Associate Editors may also be
involved in early decision making. Papers with
insufficient priority for publication are rejected at this
stage – sometimes with advice about resubmission in a
different category. Other manuscripts are sent to experts
in the field for peer review. The review process is usually
single-blinded so that reviewers’ identities are not
disclosed. We aim to give an initial decision within 10
weeks.
Proofs
All accepted manuscripts are edited according to the
Journal’s style. Proofs for approval will be sent to the
corresponding author via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF file.
Authors are required to provide corrections promptly
within 4 days; if you are going to be out of email contact
for an extended period, please supply us with the contact
details of someone who can attend to the proofs in your
absence.
Copyright Regulations
For accepted papers copyright will be transferred to the
journal Medical Science Educator and IAMSE. To
maintain and protect the Author's and Association's
ownership and rights and to afford educators with the
opportunity to publish in Medical Science Educator,
IAMSE requires that the first author assigns a copyright
agreement to IAMSE on behalf of all the authors at the
time of submission of a manuscript. In this copyright
transfer agreement, IAMSE grants to the author and all
co-authors, the rights to republish any part of their article
in secondary publications (print, CD-ROM, and other
electronic formats) for which they are authors, on the
condition that credit is noted for the original Medical
Science Educator publication. This copyright also extends
to cover all artwork, photographs, and any other
intellectual property published in the journal.
Medical Science Educator © IAMSE 2012 Volume 22(4S)