Journals in health sciences education
Are you looking for information on education in the health sciences? There are a number of journals that focus on this area. Click on the links below to get to more information on the journal and view tables of contents and abstracts of these journals:
- Academic Medicine
- Advances in Health Sciences Education
- Advances in Physiology Education
- Education for health: Change in Learning and Practice
- Innovations In Occupational Therapy Education
- Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine
- Journal of Nursing Education
- Journal of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Education
- Journal of Physical Therapy Education
- Learning in Health and Social Care
- Medical Education
- Medical Teacher
- Nurse Education in Practice
- Nurse Education Today
- Nurse Educator
- Physiotherapy Education
- Teaching and Learning in Medicine
- The Meducator
Published by the American Association of Medical Colleges, this journal has an American flavour.
Extract from the Academic Medicine pages:
"Academic Medicine, a peer-reviewed monthly journal, serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about policy, issues, and research concerning academic medicine, including strengthening the quality of medical education and training, enhancing the search for biomedical knowledge, advancing research in health services, and integrating education and research into the provision of effective health care."
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Extract from Kluwer Online's pages:
"Advances in Health Sciences Education serves as an international forum for scholarly and state-of-the-art research and development into all aspects of health sciences education. It will not only publish empirical studies but also stimulate theoretical discussions and address practical implications. Reviews of important developments in the field will be particularly encouraged, since advances in a field can only result from a deep understanding of what has already been accomplished. The editors welcome contributions in which a line of reasoning is illustrated with multiple experiments or correlational studies. In addition, the editors encourage submission of new ideas for health sciences education, papers that are not necessarily empirical in nature, but describe interesting new educational tools, approaches or solutions."
Advances in Physiology Education
Extract from the American Physiological Society pages on the journal:
"Advances in Physiology Education is dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning physiology and to the advancement of physiology as a teaching profession. It publishes peer-reviewed descriptions of new strategies for teaching, reports of education research, critical reviews of current educational practice, essays on physiology education, and articles that organize the content of physiology for problem-centered learning. Columns provide reviews of textbooks and computer software, notices and reports of meetings of interest to physiology teachers, and abstracts of relevant articles from other journals."
Education for health: Change in Learning and Practice
Extract from the Taylor and Francis pages:
"Education for Health: change in learning and practice is designed to be of interest and help to all educators and educational administrators who are striving to bring about constructive changes in health professions education so as to produce competent professionals who are community-minded and committed to providing high quality, humane health care for everyone.
Education for Health, formerly Annals of Community-Oriented Education,is unique. It addresses education in all the health care professions, and is truly international in its content and concerns. The journal has subscribers in well over sixty countries.
We invite reports on qualitative and quantitative research that can inform educational practice. We also invite thoughtful analyses, innovative ideas, and conceptual statements that may not necessarily be the product of research but which have implications for the decision-making of teachers and educational leaders.
We seek manuscripts that focus on one or more of the following areas: (1) the process of achieving constructive and lasting change/innovation in health professions education; (2) educational programs that help learners be responsive to the needs and characteristics of their surrounding communities; (3) the interdependency of education and practice; (4) interprofessional education and collaboration; (5) preparing health professionals for providing the highest quality primary care; (6) contributions from and for health professions educators who work in the developing parts of the world. "
Innovations In Occupational Therapy Education
This journal is published annually.
Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine
Extract from Taylor and Francis' pages on the journal:
The Journal is a quarterly, international, peer-reviewed journal that acts as a vehicle for the interchange of information and ideas in the production, manipulation, storage and transport of images for medical education, records and research.
Extract from Slack Incorporated's pages on the journal:
The Journal of Nursing Education provides a forum for original articles and new ideas for nursing educators in various types and levels of nursing programs. The Journal enhances the teaching-learning process, promotes curriculum development, and stimulates creative innovation and research in nursing education.
Journal of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Education
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Journal of Physical Therapy Education
Extract from the American Physical Therapy Association pages on this journal:
The Journal of Physical Therapy Education (JOPTE) is peer reviewed and published four times each year by the Education Section of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Learning in Health and Social Care
Extract from Blackwell Synergy's pages on this journal:
This new international journal aims to contribute to the growth and development of knowledge about approaches to the facilitation of individual, team and organisational learning in a variety of professional environments. The journal will attract quality research on formal and non-formal learning for, in or through professional practice.
This journal is available in the library at the Faculty of Health Sciences and the full text version is available online here. Published by the Association for the Study of Medical Education, the journal has an international flavour.
Extract from the Blackwell publishing pages on the Aims and Scope of the journal:
"Medical Education seeks to be the pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals, and publishes material of the highest quality, reflecting world wide or provocative issues and perspectives.
The journal welcomes high quality papers on all aspects of medical education including;
- undergraduate education
- postgraduate training
- continuing professional development
- interprofessional education"
This journal is available in the library at the Faculty of Health Sciences and the full text version is available online here. Published by the Association for Medical Education in Europe, this journal has an international flavour.
Extract from the Taylor and Francis pags on the Aim and Scope of the journal:
"Medical Teacher addresses the needs of teachers and administrators throughout the world involved in training for the health professions. This includes courses at basic and post-basic levels as well as the increasingly important area of continuing education.
Medical Teacher provides accounts of new teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and serves as a forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. In particular, the journal recognizes the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum - from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision - is also changing. The journal features reports of innovation and research in medical education, case studies, survey articles, practical guidelines, reviews of current literature and book reviews. All articles are peer reviewed."
Extract from the Elsevier pages on the journal:
Nurse Education in Practice enables lecturers and practitioners to both share and disseminate evidence that demonstrates the actual practice of education as it is experienced in the realities of their respective work environments. A strength of this journal is that it seeks to bridge the theory-practice gap between academia and clinical practice.
The online version of the journal promotes innovation in the practice of education by publishing papers that include interactive material.
Extract from the Harcourt's pages on the journal:
Nurse Education Today serves as an interface between the theory and the practice of nurse education. The journal publishes information and articles on aspects of nurse education in all parts of the world and covers a broad range of disciplines including:
- Basic Education
- Continuing Education
- Distance and Open Learning
- Health Education
- Education in specialist clinical areas
Extract from the Nursing Centre pages on this journal:
Nurse Educator helps readers develop results-oriented approaches for educating students in our changing health-care system. Nursing faculty members as well as in-service educators turn to this respected resource for developments and innovations in nursing education. Original articles cover the practice and theory of nursing education, including curriculum and program development, educational philosophy, teaching methods, instructional materials, testing and measurement, and administration. Peer-reviewed articles outline the trends that are shaping the future of nursing education and provide practical guidance on current issues.
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Teaching and Learning in Medicine
Extract from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates pages on the journal:
"Teaching and Learning in Medicine serves as an international forum for scholarly, state-of-the-art research on the purposes and processes of teaching and learning as they relate to the education of medical professionals. Its international scope acknowledges that there is a common challenge faced by all medical teachers--fostering the acquisition and maintenance of usable knowledge and skills in a broad, highly complex, and constantly changing clinical science--and that a common base of theory will contribute to meeting that challenge. The journal addresses practical issues and provides the analysis and empirical research needed to facilitate decision making about medical education by administrators, teachers, and learners. Its coverage includes applied educational research that is methodologically sound, practical, and useful to the teaching of medicine; editorials, analyses, and reviews of literature regarding the conduct of medical education; and basic research concerning the foundations of medical education."
From The Meducator pages on the rationale for the journal:
"Over the past two decades there has been a revolution in the way we educate medical students. Medical schools, worldwide, are facing the necessity to modernize their educational programs. The emphasis is now on making medical education more responsive to societal healthcare needs. It is important for medical schools to embrace new ideas in educational strategies within the context of curriculum planning ie. the provision of learning objectives, integration in teaching and the use of interactive learning experiences.
In emerging countries, medical schools are struggling to survive in a severely restrained economic environment. There are no journals that specifically address the particular issues faced by medical schools in these countries. The high subscription rates of existing journals and limited access to publishing, restricts the interaction of medical educators from emerging countries. In addition, Western experiences and research findings published by these journals often have little relevance to the different cultures, medical school structure and resources of emerging countries.
The Meducator is a new quarterly international journal of medical education that hopes to fill this void."
