The foremost aim of medical education is improvement of health for all human beings. This is the goal of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). The WFME is an international organization representing all medical doctors and teachers, as well as teaching institutions. Along with publishing its workbook, the WFME aims to implement the highest ethical and scientific standards in medical...

The BMA grants editorial freedom to the Editor of The BMJ. The views expressed in the journal are those of the authors and may not necessarily comply with BMA policy. The BMJ follows guidelines on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors (www.wame.org/wamestmt.htm#independence) and the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication ...

انحراف در رهبری جامعه نوپای اسلامی منجر به انحراف در احکام و سیاست‏ها شد. مسلمانان که در عصر پیامبر طبق دستورات قرآن و آموزه‏های نبوی عمل می‏کردند، با رفتارهایی از سوی حاکمان مواجه شدند که در تناقض با کتاب و سنت نبوی بود و بتدریج عنوان سنت یافت و مقبولیت عامه را بدست آورد. این رفتارها در قالب احکام عبادی، سیاسی، اقتصادی و اجتماعی قابل بحث و بررسی است. در مقابل سنتهای غلط که بدعت نامیده می‏شوند،...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate how acceptable authors find the BMJ's current practice of publishing short versions of research articles in the paper journal and a longer version on the web and to determine authors' attitudes towards publishing only abstracts in the paper journal and publishing unedited versions on bmj.com once papers have been accepted for publication. DESIGN Two cross sectional surv...

Publishing medical papers in English is important as English remains the predominant language for most medical papers (both electronic and traditional journal publications). In addition, journals with the highest impact factors are published in English and a publication in English thus enhances the visibility of authors and their institutions, and is important for promotion in some academic cen...

Publishing a manuscript of study results in a medical or biomedical journal is not as easy as we imagine. There are some components that should be noticed in publishing a medical scientific journal. Although every journal has different manuscript format, in general, a manuscript contain some components, which consist of: introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Before submitting the manu...

During the creation of a university digital library and press intended to serve as a medical reference and education tool for health care providers and their patients, six distinct and complex digital publishing challenges were encountered. Over nine years, through a multidisciplinary approach, solutions were devised to the challenges of digital content ownership, management, mirroring, transla...