Education Journals Journal of Graduate Medical Education Description: To inform and engage the graduate medical education community to improve the quality of graduate medical education. Published by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. JGME focuses on the education of medical residents and fellows, and the environment in which they learn. Topic Areas: Disseminate evidence-based approaches for teaching, assessment, and improving the learning environment; and generate new knowledge that enhances graduates' ability to provide high-quality, costeffective care Evaluation & the Health Professions Types of Articles: Original Research, Educational Innovation, Brief Report, Reviews, Perspectives, letters to the editor, new ideas. Description: A forum designed for keeping health professionals abreast of the latest technological advances in evaluation research methods through practitioner friendly articles, as well as provide the results of important evaluations. Further, the Journal is designed to provide a forum for debate of timely evaluation issues in health research and evaluation. Topic Areas: Evaluation & the Health Professions is a peer-reviewed journal that provides health-related professionals with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical tools for conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and problems, and developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs, teaching and training services, and products that pertain to a myriad of health dimensions. BMC Medical Education Journal Types of Articles: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, translational research focus, and comprehensive articles. Description: BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. Topic Areas: The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidencebased medicine. Medical Education Types of Articles: Not Listed Description: Pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals and aims to publish material of the highest quality reflecting world-wide or provocative issues and perspectives. Topic Areas: The predominant emphasis in Medical Education is on work related to the education of doctors and medical students, and papers on inter-professional education are welcomed. The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions Types of Articles: Original research papers, review articles, discussion papers, special feature pieces, short reports of research in progress or of educational innovation, commentaries, letters to the editor. Description: Addresses continuing education and continuing professional development in the health sciences. Topic Areas: Topic areas include continuous quality improvement, health policy and performance, competency assessment, knowledge translation, team learning, and disease management. Medical Teacher Types of Articles: Original research, innovations in continuing education, reviews, forum articles, foundations, and methodology articles. Description: Addresses the needs of teachers and administrators throughout the world involved in training for the health professions. This includes courses at basic and post-basic levels as well as the increasingly important area of continuing education. Topic Areas: New teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement. A forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. The journal recognizes the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning. Teaching and Learning in Medicine Types of Articles: Articles, short communications, letters. Description: an international, forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions. Its international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all medical educators: fostering the development of capable, well-rounded, and continuous learners prepared to practice in a complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environment. Topic Areas: Practical issues in the conduct of medical education, as well as issues more basic to medical education, and provide analysis and empirical research needed to facilitate educational decision making by administrators, teachers, and learners. Includes all levels of medical education, from premedical to postgraduate and continuing medical education JME: Journal of Medical Education Types of Articles: Perspectives/editorials, analyses/reviews of literature, applied research, research basic to medical education, research methodology, developments, book reviews. Description: An international forum for the communication of ideas on theory and practice in medical education. Topic Areas: Research and analysis into issues in medical education, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region as well as outside of the region. Simulation in Healthcare Types of Articles: Curriculum development and evaluation, course design, teacher training, teaching and learning issues, assessment and evaluation, continuing professional development, role of technology in medical education. Description: Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare is a multidisciplinary publication encompassing all areas of applications and research in healthcare simulation technology. The journal is relevant to a broad range of clinical and biomedical specialties, and publishes original basic, clinical, and translational research. Topic Areas: Safety and quality-oriented training programs, development of educational and competency assessment standards, reports of experience in the use of simulation technology, Virtual reality, Epidemiologic modeling, Molecular, pharmacologic, and disease modeling Clinical Teacher Types of Articles: original basic, clinical, and translational research Description: The Clinical Teacher is the journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting. The latest research, practice and thinking in clinical education across the health professions. Topic Areas: There are sections on specific teaching approaches, reports and evaluation of innovative learning activities, and brief overviews of the latest research. Reports of innovative thinking and advances in clinical teaching from around the world, and expert commentary and discussion on challenging and controversial issues in today's clinical education. Perspectives on Medical Education Types of Articles: Original articles, insights, letters to the editor. Description: Perspectives on Medical Education’s mission is to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinical education practices. Topic Areas: Perspectives on Medical Education positions itself at the dynamic intersection of educational research and clinical education. While other journals in the health professional education domain orient predominantly to education researchers or to clinical educators, Perspectives positions itself at the collaborative interface between these perspectives. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development Types of Articles: Original research papers from scholarly collaborations among clinicians, teachers and researchers and papers providing resources to develop the community’s ability to conduct such collaborative research Description: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development focuses on publishing timely information on medical education practices and development of novel curricular practices. In addition, it provides access to recent articles intended to help educators in the evaluation of curriculum development and recent advances in instructional methods, individualized learning practices, and of student and faculty assessment. Topic Areas: The journal focuses on of medical education and curricular development, including basic science, clinical, and postgraduate medical education. Articles will be considered for publication that assess novel ways to improve upon existing curricula, designing of new curricular materials to engage students more effectively, effectiveness of large didactic lecture formats versus small group learning for teaching effectiveness, the value of independent learning assessments on education, and methods to improve effective teaching in the classroom. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Types of Articles: Commentaries, Editorial, Methodology, Opinion responses, Original Research, Perspective, Review and Short papers. Description: JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is a member of the JAMA Network family of journals, which includes 11 specialty journals and JAMA Network Open. To promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health Topic Areas: Topics include the various aspects of medicine and public health, including the political, philosophic, ethical, legal, environmental, economic, historical, and cultural. Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice Types of Articles: Research, Clinical Review and Education, Opinions, Humanities, Correspondence letters Description: Education for Health (EfH) is the peer-reviewed, MEDLINEindexed journal of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, a global consortium of health professions schools that are committed to improve the preparation of future health professionals particularly ensuring that they are responsive to the needs of the communities in which they learn and work. Topic Areas: Education for Health is dedicated to the dissemination of work consistent with the organization’s mission and objectives in international health. It publishes original contributions of interest to health and clinical practitioners, educators, policy makers, administrators, and learners in the health professions. Specifically this focus is on global models of health system integration and health professions education that lead to improved health and health care delivery. Types of Articles: Original Research papers, brief communications combining elements of research and description. Practical advice papers, position papers, general articles, student contributions, letters to the editor and articles in other specific formats (eg. Commentaries, interviews, personal views, book reviews, etc.) Academic Medicine Description: International forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies that address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community Topic Areas: Theoretical and/or practical facets of education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; clinical practice in academic settings; other topics relevant to medical schools and teaching hospitals. Types of Articles: Articles, perspectives, commentaries, research reports, special features (e.g. letters to the editor). Education Journals that Publish Medical Journals Educational Researcher Description: Educational Researcher (ER) publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines. ER aims to make major programmatic research and new findings of broad importance widely accessible. Topic Areas: Education research Research in Higher Education Types of Articles: research articles—feature articles, reviews/essays, and briefs Description: Research in Higher Education publishes studies that examine issues pertaining to postsecondary education. The journal is open to studies using a wide range of methods, but has particular interest in studies that apply advanced quantitative research methods to issues in postsecondary education or address postsecondary education policy issues. Topic Areas: access and retention; student success; equity; faculty issues; institutional productivity and assessment; postsecondary education governance; curriculum and instruction; state and federal higher education policy; and financing of postsecondary education Types of Articles: Not listed Anesthesia Related Journals Journal of Pain & Relief Description: International journal which brings about the latest research which aims to publish academic and quality papers in all related aspects of Pain & Relief. Topic Areas: Pain & Relief; Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Chronic Back Pain, Pain Medication, Pain Medicine, Pain Sensation, and Pain Tolerance. Types of Articles: Original research articles, clinical trials, reviews, mini reviews, perspectives/commentaries, case report, editorials, letter to the editor, short communication, opinion, book review and other special features articles related to the field of Pain. Pain Medicine Description: Pain Medicine is a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to pain clinicians, educators and researchers with an interest in pain from various medical specialties such as pain medicine, anesthesiology, family practice, internal medicine, neurology, neurological surgery, orthopedic spine surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine as well as related health disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, nursing, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, and integrative health. Topic Areas: This is the respected pain journal that gives you special sections on spine pain, pain & aging, primary care & health services, neuropathic pain, cancer pain & palliative care, opioids, substance abuse & addiction, psychology, psychiatry imaging and brain neuroscience, methodology, mechanisms & translational research, integrative medicine, headache & facial pain, neuromodulation & interventional pain, acute & perioperative pain, rehabilitation, musculoskeletal pain, ethics and forensic pain medicine, as well as case reports, reviews, clinical investigations, special articles on thematic topics, editorials, guest commentary and letters to the editor. Thematic supplements are published yearly. Pain- The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain Types of Articles: Original Research Articles, preliminary research articles, brief research reports, reviews, special article, case reports, technical notes, commentaries, editorial, letter to the editor Description: This journal is the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Pain and publishes original research on the nature, mechanisms and treatment of pain. The journal provides a forum for the dissemination of research in the basic and clinical sciences of multidisciplinary interest. Topic Areas: nature, mechanisms and treatment of pain The Clinical Journal of Pain Types of Articles: Not listed Description: The Clinical Journal of Pain explores all aspects of pain and its effective treatment, bringing readers the insights of leading anesthesiologists, surgeons, internists, neurologists, orthopedists, psychiatrists and psychologists, clinical pharmacologists, and rehabilitation medicine specialists. Topic Areas: This peer-reviewed journal presents timely and thoughtprovoking articles on clinical dilemmas in pain management; valuable diagnostic procedures; promising new pharmacological, surgical, and other therapeutic modalities; psychosocial dimensions of pain; and ethical issues of concern to all medical professionals. The journal also publishes Special Topic issues on subjects of particular relevance to the practice of pain medicine. Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research Types of Articles: Not Listed Description: The Journal of Anesthesia and Clinical Research publishes a wide range of articles in the discipline of anesthesiology including basic science, translational medicine, education, and clinical research to develop a unique platform for the authors and to encourage their contribution towards the field without any barriers of subscription and language. Topic Areas: This journal considers articles from all aspect of understanding related to Anesthesia and Clinical Research, Local Anesthesia, Sedation, Regional Anesthesia, Anesthetic Agents, Nerve Blocks, Spinal, Epidural and Caudal Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, Thoracic Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Obstetric Anesthesiology, Analgesics, Anesthesia & Critical Care, Spinal Anesthesia, Anesthetics, Epidural Anesthesia, Clinical Anesthesia, Dental Anesthesia, Vascular Anesthesia, Surgical Anesthesia. Critical Care Medicine Types of Articles: Research articles, review articles, commentaries, case studies, editorials, clinical images, and letters to the editor. Description: Critical Care Medicine is the premier peer-reviewed, scientific publication in critical care medicine. Directed to those specialists who treat patients in the ICU and CCU, including chest physicians, surgeons, pediatricians, pharmacists/pharmacologists, anesthesiologists, critical care nurses, and other healthcare professionals, Critical Care Medicine covers all aspects of acute and emergency care for the critically ill or injured patient. Each issue presents critical care practitioners with clinical breakthroughs that lead to better patient care, the latest news on promising research, and advances in equipment and techniques. Topic Areas: Critical Care Medicine covers all aspects of acute and emergency care for the critically ill or injured patient. The purpose of this journal is to publish original articles on significant work in critical care medicine. It also provides a forum for exchange of ideas on what's right and what's wrong in the management of the critically ill; a truly in-depth coverage of this specialty. All articles are original submissions and peerreviewed. Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia Types of Articles: Original articles, review articles, case reports, brief reports, editorials, letters to the editor, and viewpoints. Description: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia is the official journal of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anaesthesia (IACTA). The society has had eminent editors of its official voice mouth - Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia (ACA), which have helped to improve the academic standards and visibility of the journal to national and international standards. The aim and objectives of the entire team is to publish scientific content relevant to the prevailing times of the highest standards. The ultimate aim of the journal is to provide scientific literature to the readers aimed at improving cardiac health practices amongst anesthetics, intensivists and surgeons. Topic Areas: The journal addresses different aspects of Cardiac Anaesthesia like difficult Airway and Resuscitation, Inhalational Anaesthetics, Haemodynamic monitoring, Simulation based training and teaching, Cardiac surgery, ECMO and Heart Failure, Pediatric Cardiology and Molecular Genetics etc. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine Types of Articles: It endeavors to cover all aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases including original articles of basic research and clinical findings, editorials, reviews, interesting images in cardiovascular medicine and Transeasophageal Echocardiography, Letter to Editor, Video Commentaries and Case Reports. Description: The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) is dedicated to the rapid, accurate publication of original articles dealing with all aspects of medical ultrasound, particularly its direct application to patient care but also relevant basic science, advances in instrumentation, and biological effects. Topic Areas: Represented through these efforts are a wide variety of disciplines of ultrasound. Journal of Surgery and Anesthesia Types of Articles: Original Research papers, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Innovations, Case Series, Letters to the Editor, and more, from an international bevy of countries in a continual effort to showcase and promote advances in the ultrasound community. Description: Journal of Surgery and Anaesthesia is a peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing research on all aspects of surgery and anaesthesia. This journal aims to keep anaesthesiologists, anaesthetic practitioners, surgeons and surgical researchers up to date by publishing clinical & evidence based research. Topic Areas: Journal of Surgery and Anesthesia addresses all aspects of surgery & anesthesia practice, including anesthetic administration, pharmacokinetics, preoperative and postoperative considerations, coexisting disease and other complicating factors, General Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, GI Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Urology, Surgical Oncology, Radiology, Ophthalmology, Pediatric Surgery, Trauma Services, Minimal Access Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Techniques and Procedures, Preoperative and Postoperative Patient Management, Complications in Surgery and New Developments in Instrumentation and technology related to surgery, Intra-Operative Regional Anesthesia Administration Techniques, Peri-Operative Pain, Obstetric Anesthesia, Pediatric Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, Sedation, Regional Anesthesia, Outcome Studies and Associated Complications, etc. Types of Articles: Journal of Surgery and Anesthesia accepts manuscripts in the form of original research articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, letters to editor and editorials for publication in an open access platform. International Journals European Journal of Anaesthesiology Description: The European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA) publishes original work of high scientific quality. Preference is given to experimental work or clinical observation in man, and to laboratory work of clinical relevance. The journal also publishes commissioned narrative reviews by an authority in a field of interest to those working in anaesthesiology, pain, emergency medicine or intensive care. Topic Areas: Anaesthesiology, pain, emergency medicine and intensive care. Preference is given to experimental work or clinical observation in man, and to laboratory work of clinical relevance. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Types of Articles: The journal publishes commissioned reviews by an authority, editorials, invited commentaries, special articles, pro and con debates, and short reports (correspondences, case reports, and short reports of clinical studies). Description: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica publishes papers on original work in anaesthesiology, intensive care, pain and emergency medicine and subjects related to their basic sciences. With a rising impact factor, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica has a well established reputation for publishing high quality material and attracts a global readership in over 60 countries. Topic Areas: Anaesthesia, pain relief, intensive care, emergency medicine. Anaesthesia Types of Articles: Review articles, case reports, letters to the editor, and commentaries. Description: Anaesthesia is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists and is international in scope and comprehensive in coverage. It publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of general and regional anaesthesia, intensive care and pain therapy, including research on equipment. Topic Areas: general and regional anaesthesia, intensive care and pain therapy, including research on equipment. Korean Journal of Anesthesiology Types of Articles: Anaesthesia has the following regular sections: Editorials, Original Articles, Reviews and Correspondence. Case Reports, Historical Articles or Special Articles may also be included. Editorials are often commissioned but authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-inChief if they wish to discuss potential topics. Authors seeking to submit official Clinical Guidelines, Consensus Statements, etc. should refer to specific guidance Description: The Korean Journal of Anesthesiology (Korean J Anesthesiol; KJA) is an international, English-language, and Peer reviewed journal for anesthesiology, critical care, and pain medicine. As an official journal of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, KJA was founded in 1968 and published monthly until 2014 and will now publish bimonthly in 2015. Topic Areas: KJA aims to publish high-quality clinical and scientific materials on all aspects of anesthesiology, critical care, and pain medicine. New England Journal of Medicine Types of Articles: KJA features reviews, editorials, case reports, and letters to the editor. Description: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is the world’s leading medical journal and website. Published continuously for over 200 years, NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, and the global medical community. Our mission is to bring physicians the best research and information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice and to present this information in understandable and clinically useful formats that inform health care delivery and improve patient outcomes. Topic Areas: Health policy, data sharing, medicine and society, pain management, and clinical trial series. IJME: International Journal of Medical Education Types of Articles: Original research articles, clinical cases, review articles, commentaries, visual articles, etc. Description: IJME is a primary source for academics and professionals in the expanding fields of medical and clinical education across the world. The aims of IJME are to cover a wide range of education and training in medical and clinical education. Topic Areas: Includes, but not limited to; Curriculum planning, continuing professional development, pedagogic practice, clinical decision making, medical education and leadership, measurement and evaluation in medical education, etc. BMJ: British Medical Journal Types of Articles: Research papers, review articles, short communications, perspectives and letters to the editor. Description: The BMJ is defined by its mission: to work towards a healthier world for all. We share that global endeavor with millions of readers working in clinical practice, research, education, government, and with patients and the public too. Topic Areas: Research evidence, clinical education and practice, Advocating for universal, equitable, high quality healthcare, the health and wellbeing of doctors, and Improving the social and environmental determinants of health. British Journal of Anaesthesia Types of Articles: Research studies, research methods and reporting articles, analysis papers, education articles, editorials, personal views, etc. Description: The BJA strives to foster and disseminate the best research and educational information in anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain management in order to improve patient care globally. Topic Areas: Anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain management. Types of Articles: Not listed.
