Writing & Submitting Medical Education Research

Resources

Primer for Submitting Health Professions Medical Education Research to the IRB. An infographic from the AAMC outlining the key points and tips when submitting medical education proposal to the IRB.

Undecided about how to list multiple authors in your medical education research submission? Read this article: When names are on the line: Negotiating authorship with your team.

Interested in publishing your educational innovations? MedEdPORTAL is the peer reviewed and open-access online, AAMC Journal of Teaching and Learning that is now part of MedLine. Contact Gail March Cohen, PhD, Faculty Mentor for MedEdPORTAL, about your educational resource and she will assist you in preparing a proposal for submission.

AMEE MedEdPublish: This updated version of MedEdPublish is an online journal that is open access, post-publication, peer reviewed journal for medical and healthcare professions education. Healthcare professionals in education can demonstrate their scholarship by contributing papers or reviewing publications.

Journal of General Internal Medicine: Innovation and Change in Medical Education --  This Theme Issue is to highlight and promote rigorous research on current issues of broad interest to medical education at any level. Submission date is in September of each year. Learn more

From Medical Education Research and Development: The newest edition of the Annotated Bibliography of Journals for Educational Scholarship is now available on the MESRE homepage under news and updates as well as on the resources page.  We welcome any suggestions to the guide as we try to capture all of the relevant journals and repositories.  If you would like to suggest additions or changes, please contact andrea.berry@ucf.edu.

In addition to the bibliography, Sheila Green from Texas A&M created a companion document “Quality Indicators for Journals of Medical Education Scholarship”.  This document is available at https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/165231.2