Publishing Policies

In our "Students' Corner", we invite students and trainees in the health professions to submit short essays and viewpoints on all aspects of medical education, but in particular suggestions on how to improve medical education, and suggestions for new technologies, applications and approaches (no article processing fees).

Blended learning combines strategies such as web-based or mobile learning with conventional learning

See also: Public Health Training, Education and Capacity Building [Section Id: 563]

"Professional identity development is a recurring and adaptive process; personal identity that is constructed by one’s internal values and morals molds and projects into the formation of the professional self, which encompasses role expectations and professional ethics. For medical education, facilitating the strengthening of physician identity and internalizing physician values bring confidence into clinical practice and creates humanistic, compassionate, and ethical physicians" (Ruan B, Yilmaz Y, Lu D, Lee M, Chan TM. Defining the Digital Self: A Qualitative Study to Explore the Digital Component of Professional Identity in the Health Professions. J Med Internet Res 2020;22(9):e21416 URL: http://www.jmir.org/2020/9/e21416/) 

See also: Health Informatics Education and Training [Section Id: 884]

Peer learning is defined as “people from similar social groupings, who are not professional teachers, helping each other learn, and by so doing, learning themselves” (Topping K. Peer-Assisted Learning First Edition. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers; 2009)

For corrigenda that are discretionary and a result of author-oversight (e.g. corrections in the affiliation etc) we charge a $190 processing fee to make changes in the original paper and publish an erratum.Please submit a correction statement (text similar to http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e76/) at https://mededu.jmir.org/author/submit/1 under the section "Discretionary Corrigenda".