About the Journal

The Spanish Journal of Medical Education is a scientific journal which publishes articles in Spanish and English, open access, on Medical Education in Health Sciences (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Veterinary, Optics. Issues are published in a tri-annual basis.

The journal will publish original research and review articles related to Medical Education in Health Sciences, at all training levels, Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Continuing Education. Short comments and letters to the director will also be accepted.

Articles will be published on the development of teaching methodologies and resources for teaching innovation, development of basic and clinical skills, development of teaching programs in Undergraduate and Graduate, curricular teaching planning, preclinical and clinical simulation, clinical communication, including the patient-doctor relationship , evaluation systems for students, residents, teachers and organizations, resident training programs, clinical competence evaluation, postgraduate tutoring.

The works may be submitted at the initiative of the authors and also at the request of the Editorial Committee of the magazine. All manuscripts will be reviewed by external reviewers through blind peer review system.

The journal is completely free for authors and readers.

Publication process: The works may be presented at the initiative of the authors and also upon request of the Editorial Committee of the journal. In the process of evaluating the articles, scientific assessment is carried out through blind peer review, with total anonymity in the review of manuscripts. All manuscripts will be reviewed by external reviewers. More information in the Submissions section.

Ethics code: The journal adheres to the ethical standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and to the principles of transparency and good practices of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). Read the full statement here.

Complying With Ethics of Experimentation

  • Please ensure that all research reported in submitted papers has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and is in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation.
  • All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement in the Methods section, confirming ethical approval has been obtained from the appropriate local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board and that where relevant, informed consent has been obtained.
  • All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this. In settings where there are no ethics committees in place to provide ethical approval, authors are advised to contact the Editor to discuss further.

Open access statement: this journal fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access: "allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose".

Editorial decisions: editorial decisions will always be notified including the motivation of the editorial decision. This notification will include the reasons for the acceptance, revision or rejection of the manuscript, as well as the opinions, original or retouched by the Drafting, issued by the experts. To this end, the journal adheres to the guidelines described in the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publications.

Periodical declaration: the contents of the journal will be published online immediately after acceptance and collectively as part of a number. Issues will be published in a tri-annual basis.

Indexing in international and national databases of the specialty: 

Copyright: the works published in this journal are subject to the following terms:

1. The Publications Service of the University of Murcia (the publisher) preserves the economic rights (copyright) of the published works and favors and allows them to be reused under the use license indicated in section 2.

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2. The works are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative 4.0 license.

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3. Self-archiving conditions. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate electronically the preprint version (before being evaluated and sent to the journal) and / or post-print (version evaluated and accepted for publication) versions of their works before publication, and which favors its circulation and dissemination earlier and with it a possible increase in its citation and scope among the academic community.

Sponsorship: the Spanish Journal of Medical Education is edited by the Center for Studies in Medical Education of the University of Murcia, in collaboration with the Publications Service of the University of Murcia.

Interoperability protocol

The journal provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows its contents to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.

Specs:
● OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
● Dublin Core Metadata

Route for harvesters: https://revistas.um.es/edumed/oai

Digital preservation policies

All the journals published by the University of Murcia are hosted in the DIGITUM institutional repository (digitum.um.es). Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit their works published in the Spanish Journal of Medical Education in other repositories, since in this way their circulation, dissemination and preservation are favored.

ISSN: 2660-8529