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BMC Medical Education

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Overview

BMC Medical Education is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of education and training of healthcare professionals. The journal welcomes work on the training of healthcare professionals across all levels of education from undergraduate to postgraduate and on to continuing education. 

  • Focuses on the training of healthcare professionals across all levels of education
  • Considers articles with educational outcomes and valid comparisons
  • Covers curriculum development, performance evaluations, assessment of training needs, technology-based teaching, evidence informed education and more
  • High visibility for your work with open access
  • Indexed in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (SCIE) and more
Lead Editor
  • Kirsi Forsberg

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
3.2 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.8 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
16 days
Downloads
12.4M (2025)

Calls for papers

Collection

Medical education for LGBTQ+ health

BMC Medical Education is calling for submissions to our Collection, Medical education for LGBTQ+ health.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
15 January 2027

Collection

Nutrition science in health professions education

BMC Medical Education in collaboration with the Global Nutrition Observatory for Medical Nutrition Education (GNOME) initiative is calling for...

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
13 January 2027
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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1472-6920
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  8. DOAJ
  9. Dimensions
  10. EBSCO
  11. EMCare
  12. Gale
  13. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  14. Google Scholar
  15. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  16. Medline
  17. Naver
  18. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  19. Ovid Discovery
  20. Portico
  21. ProQuest
  22. PubMedCentral
  23. SCImago
  24. SCOPUS
  25. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  26. Social Science Citation Index
  27. TD Net Discovery Service
  28. Wanfang
  29. eLibrary.ru
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