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Barcoding Allows Immediate Downloading of PowerPoint Presentations by Smart Phones
by Douglas Riegert-Johnson & Maegan Roberts. (Published: 21 December 2011)

Design and Effectiveness of a Required Pre-Clinical Simulation-based Curriculum for Fundamental Clinical Skills and Procedures
by Daryl P. Lofaso et al. (Published: 6 December 2011)

Process of discovery: A fourth-year translational science course
by Benedict F. DiGiovanni et al. (Published: 5 December 2011)



Medical Education Online (MEO) is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal for disseminating information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. It was launched in 1996 as the first ever freely available online journal in the field of medical education and has since then grown to become a highly ranked source of information in this area, with indexing in PubMed/MEDLINE and inclusion in NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, PubMed Central. As of 2010, MEO is published by Co-Action Publishing who will also provide free access to the valuable archive.

Topics: Manuscripts on any aspect of the process of educating and training health care professionals will be considered for publication. We welcome papers dealing with but not limited to the following research areas:

- 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

Types of papers: MEO publishes Feature Articles discussing issues of interest to the health education community; Research Articles presenting high quality completed research or evaluation studies; Trend Articles presenting new ideas as well as studies or descriptions of programs in the early stages of development; and Letters to the Editor discussing topics related to any aspect of educating physicians and other health professionals.

WHY PUBLISH WITH MEO?

Open AccessMEO is free from all access barriers, allowing for the widest possible global dissemination of your work, leading to more citations. In 2009 and 2010, the journal was accessed by readers from over 165 countries and territories.

Rapid publication process – upon acceptance of your article, you can expect your work to be online within 3-4 weeks.

Retain copyright – authors retain the non-commercial copyright to their own article; you are free to disseminate your work, make unlimited copies, deposit it in any repository, and more.

Archiving in PubMed Central – Accepted manuscripts will be deposited in PubMed Central immediately after publication.

IndexingMEO is indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed by the National Library of Medicine.

Personal serviceMEO is published by a small yet global Open Access scholarly publisher dedicated to providing excellent service to authors.

Publication fee waivers – waivers are available for authors lacking sufficient research funding.

Post-publication statistics – after publication, authors can continue to login to the website and check the number of full-text views their paper is receiving.

Easy online submission – simply click on the ‘Submit Manuscript’ button, register yourself as an author, submit your paper and follow its progression.

Comply with archiving policies – authors can deposit any version of their manuscript in any required repository or archive, or post articles to their personal or institutional website.








Announcements

 

ePub format available from 2011!!

 
Co-Action Publishing is pleased to announce the introduction of an EPUB format for all of our titles from 2011.  
Posted: 2011-03-01 More...
 

New section in MEO - Performance Assessment!

 
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new section in the Journal focusing on performance assessment.  
Posted: 2011-01-14 More...
 
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