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Journal overview

Medical Education Online is an open access journal of health care education, publishing peer-reviewed research, perspectives, reviews, and early documentation of new ideas and trends.

Medical Education Online aims to disseminate information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. Manuscripts may address any aspect of health care education and training, including, but not limited to:

  • Basic science education
  • Clinical science education
  • Residency education
  • Learning theory
  • Problem-based learning (PBL)
  • Curriculum development
  • Research design and statistics
  • Measurement and evaluation
  • Faculty development
  • Informatics/web


Medical Education Online
accepts feature articles, research articles, trend articles, review articles, rapid communications and short communications. In light of recent surge in submissions the journal is not currently accepting letters to the editor.

The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

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