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ABOUT THE JOURNAL

 

Brief Background

 

The Brazilian Journal of Medical Education (RBEM) is the entity for scientific diffusion of the Brazilian Association of Medical Education. Its mission is to be a preeminent journal in the field of medical education and to publish high-quality material on relevant topics and perspectives in this area. Its first edition was published in August 1977. Currently, it adopts the continuous flow publication system, being published only in the online version.

The abbreviation of its title is Rev. bras. education. med., which must be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic captions.

RBEM has an h Index equal to 92.

The online journal is open access and free.

 

 

Open Science Compliance

 

This journal follows the Gold Open Access model.

Authors must complete and submit the Open Science Compliance Form with the manuscript. In this form, authors are asked to inform:

(a) whether the manuscript is a preprint and, if so, its location;
(b) whether data, program codes and other materials underlying the text of the manuscript are properly cited and referenced; and,
(c) open options are accepted in the peer review process.

Form on compliance with Open Science

 

 

Ethics in Publication

 

The journal is standardized according to the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). RBEM adopts the recommendations of the Code of Conduct and Basic Practices published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Submissions with data that, individually or collectively, involve human beings directly or indirectly, regardless of the submission category, must be submitted to the journal with a copy of the approval from the Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings (except for publicly available data), which should include the process number (CAAE) and project approval number, as well as the institution. Clinical trial studies must include the Clinical Trial Approval Registration number, which must be submitted to the journal.

The journal aims to publish articles in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the purpose of contributing to change and impact in society. The SDG with which the manuscript aligns must be indicated on the title page form.

Research involving animals must be submitted for approval by the Animal Use Ethics Committee.

RBEM has independent editorial guidelines and therefore does not accept advertising material for commercial purposes.

Simultaneous submission to any other publication is not permitted. RBEM considers duplicate or fragmented publication of the same research to be an ethical violation.

All authors must be linked to ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) as a requirement.

 

 

Focus and Scope

 

The Brazilian Journal of Medical Education publishes original articles, review articles, experience reports, essays, position papers, letters to the editor, and book reviews on relevant topics in the field of medical education.

 

 

Digital Preservation

 

This journal follows the standards set forth in the Digital Preservation Policy program of the SciELO Program.

 

 

Indexing Sources

 

 

 

Bibliographic Journal Information

 

  • Journal Title: Brazilian Journal of Medical Education
  • Abbreviated Title: Rev. Bras. Educ. Méd.
  • Published by: Brazilian Association of Medical Education
  • Frequency: Quarterly
  • Publication Mode: Continuous Publication
  • Year of Journal Establishment: 1977
  • Print Version ISSN: 0100-5502
  • Online Version ISSN: 1981-5271
 

 

Websites and Social Media

 

 

 

EDITORIAL POLICY

Preprints

 

A preprint is a version of an article before peer review, which certifies whether or not its formal publication in a journal. The preprint is deposited by the corresponding author on a preprint server. Authors must disclose preprint posting details, including corresponding DOI (which will be published in the manuscript if it is accepted for publication) on the title page and in the Form on compliance with Open Science.

The use of “preprints” is an option and choice of the authors and the journal accepts the submission of manuscripts previously deposited on the SciELO Preprints server.

 

 

Peer Review Process

 

The evaluation of the submission is conducted in an impartial and anonymous manner, meaning that the reviewers will not be informed of the identity of the article's origin. In the case of preprints, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of the authors; therefore, the review may be single-blind or open. Each article will be assigned an Associate Editor, who will designate at least two reviewers, supervise the review process, and approve the final text for publication. The name of this Editor will be published alongside the article.

Every manuscript received is evaluated for format (Instructions to authors). If it does not comply with the standards, the manuscript is returned to the author for correction and resubmission. The manuscript returned for correction has the status of draft on the platform, identifying that it has not yet entered the evaluation flow to begin peer review.

If the article complies with the standards, it will be forwarded to the editor-in-chief of RBEM, who will assess whether it is part of the scope of the Journal and will forward it to the associated editors, and these, to two reviewers registered by RBEM to assess the scientific quality of the work.

After review by the evaluators, the associate editors receive the article to issue their opinion. Opinions will always be substantiated and will present one of the following conclusions: Accepted, Minor Revision, Major Revision or Rejected. Articles with revision decisions (Major or Minor revision) will be subjected to a new evaluation process after the authors submit the suitability version suggested by the reviewers (see types of decisions). The new version will have a new decision with possible conclusions: Accepted, Minor Revision, Major Revision or Rejected.

The evaluation process is estimated to last 144 days.

Types of decisions

Authors who receive the article with a Minor Revision or Major Revision opinion must send a letter to the reviewer responding in detail to the suggested changes, marking the changes in the body of the article in red. In cases of a third version, corrections made in the previous revision must be in black and only new ones in red. The file with corrections must be sent within 60 days for the article to undergo further review.

If there is no response from the authors by this deadline, the article will be considered withdrawn.
Articles that receive a Rejected opinion will not be published.

Authors who receive the article with an Accepted opinion will receive an email informing the issue of the Journal in which the article should be published, as well as information for paying the publication fee. After payment, the article will enter the publication flow.

Publishing flow

The article is sent to grammar checkers and is subsequently sent by email to the main author. This has a maximum deadline of 3 days to submit the article in its final version.

The article is sent to layout. The author will receive a proof of the file by email for checking exclusively the layout. This has a maximum period of 3 days to return the acceptance of the definitive version that will be published.

If there is no response from the main author by the deadline stipulated in each stage, the article will be canceled.

 

 

Open Data

 

As a good practice, following Open Science to ensure security and transparency, we encourage the "sharing of data, codes, methods, and other materials used and resulting from research that often remain underlying in the texts of articles published by journals."

Research data from manuscripts approved for publication may be stored in the SciELO Datarepository starting in 2024.

It is recommended to store observed, collected, or generated data to validate the results of the original research, including raw data, processed data, audio, video, code, software, algorithms, protocols, and methods.

 

 

Fees

 

Submission fee: No fee will be charged for the submission of articles.
R$ 2,300 for publication in the article's original language and translation (English or Portuguese).

  • Discount: If at least one of the authors is a compliant ABEM member, a R$ 200 discount will be applied to the publication fee in the submission language.
  • Payment exemption: No fee will be charged for publication in the submission language (Portuguese or English) if all authors are compliant ABEM members (Compliance verification deadline: 1 week after acceptance). Therefore, a fee of R$ 1,300 will be charged for the article translation (English or Portuguese).
  • Erratum: If it becomes necessary to correct author names after the article's publication and it is determined that the lead author confirmed the article release with the error, there will be a R$ 60 fee for the creation of the erratum
 

 

Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy

 

RBEM follows the principles of publication ethics included in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Code of Conduct. Ethical issues and/or matters that may harm the reputation of the journal will be assessed and addressed by the Editorial Board.

In cases of misconduct, the journal will apply the retraction policy in accordance with the Good Practices Guide proposed by SciELO.

The registration and publication of errata (portuguese only) will follow the recommendations proposed by SciELO.

The registration and publication of retractions (portuguese only) will be as proposed by SciELO.

 

 

Policy on Conflict of Interest

 

Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.

The existence or absence of individual conflicts of interest must be disclosed for each author. In the case of financial conflicts of interest, authors must provide funding details, including the project registration number. For research involving human subjects, either directly or indirectly, the project registration number on the Plataforma Brazil and the corresponding approval report number must be provided, in accordance with CNS Resolution No. 196/96.

When editors have a conflict of interest, they must delegate the decision-making process to other editors.

 

 

Adoption of similarity software

 

The iThenticate software is the tool used by RBEM for originality verification and similarity/plagiarism detection of submitted manuscripts. A manuscript submitted for review will be immediately rejected if RBEM identifies misconduct, including high levels of similarity. An article published by RBEM that contains errors or lacks proper claims must be retracted with the necessary corrections and clarifications. Retractions follow the guidelines set by SciELO.

 

 

Adoção de softwares uso de recursos de Inteligência Artificial

 

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (ChatGPT, Bard, Large Language Models, among others) in the production of text, graphic representations, images, data analysis, or other stages of the work's development must be described in the article's methodological procedures. The use of ideas, data, or material from other authors without proper citation and referencing, even if derived from AI, will be considered plagiarism. AI tools do not assume authorship responsibility nor provide bibliographic references. The Brazilian Journal of Medical Education assumes that the responsibility for the article's content lies with the authors who sign it.

Attention: AI tools are not designed to make critical decisions or for uses that have material consequences on a person’s livelihood or well-being. This includes situations involving medical care. Such tools are recommended only for assistance with language, improving searches for relevant literature, and textual revisions, provided they are supervised by the authors.

 

 

Gender and Sex Issues

 

The editorial team of the Brazilian Journal of Medical Education, as well as the authors publishing in the journal, must always adhere to the guidelines on (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines include a set of directives that guide the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, results, and the interpretation of findings. Additionally, the Brazilian Journal of Medical Education observes a gender equity policy in the composition of its editorial board.

 

 

Ethics Committee

 

The authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

 

 

Copyright

 

Authors of articles published by RBEM retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is properly cited. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication.

Authors are granted the right to enter into additional separate agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the Archives, such as posting it in an institutional repository, with proper acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Readers may read, download, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles without needing prior permission from the authors or editors.

 

 

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

 

Website Responsibility:

RBEM reserves the right to make changes to the manuscripts regarding spelling norms, aiming to maintain the formal standard of the language while respecting the original ideas of the authors.

Author Responsibility:

The journal adopts the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License, preserving the integrity of the articles in an open-access environment. Authors are allowed to retain publication rights without restrictions.

Authors of articles published by RBEM retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is properly cited.

All people designated as authors are responsible for authorship of the manuscripts and for having participated sufficiently in the work to assume public responsibility for their content.

RBEM encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as sharing them on their personal social media, provided that the complete citation to the journal's website version is included.

 

 

Sponsors and Promotion Agencies

 

Associação Brazileira de Educação Médica -ABEM

 

 

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

 

Editor-in-Chief

 

 

 

Associate Editors

 

 

 

International Associate Editors

 

 

 

Reviewers

 

 

 

Steering Board

 

 

 

Editing

 

Graphic design
Grifo Diagramações

Administrative manager
Rozane Landskron Gonçalves

Administrative assistant
Bianka Beatriz Cruz de Moraes
Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho

 

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

 

 

The Brazilian Journal of Medical Education publishes original articles, review articles, experience reports, essays, position statements, letters to the editor, and book reviews on relevant topics in the field of medical education. Articles can be submitted in Portuguese or English.

RBEM accepts preprint articles.

RBEM accepts submissions containing material that has already been part of a doctoral thesis, master's dissertation, or final undergraduate project/scientific initiation, including those that have been publicly available in accordance with the mandatory requirements of the granting institution, provided they adhere to the structure required for the submission category to the journal.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the ScholarOne electronic system in Portuguese or English (changing the language is not permitted at any stage after submission) and are exclusively intended for RBEM, following the guidelines specified below according to the category.

The word count begins from the Introduction and excludes the references. Regardless of the category, it does not include the abstract, figures, or bibliographic references.

Information about the institution and the authors involved in the research that appears in the body of the article must be shaded (highlighted) in black to conceal the data. Replacing this information with other characters, such as XXX, will not be accepted.

The entire editorial process can be monitored by authors on the ScholarOne platform, in the Author tab.

Types of Documents Accepted

Editorial: responsibility of the editors or invited researchers (up to 3 thousand words). Spontaneously submitted editorials will not be accepted.

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
FREE DEVELOPMENT
REFERENCES

Original article: articles resulting from original theoretical or empirical research (up to 5,000 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
ABSTRACT (Sections in bold: Introduction, Objective, Method, Result, Conclusion)
KEYWORDS
INTRODUCTION
METHOD
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSIONS OR FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
REFERENCES

Essay: article with critical analysis on a specific theme related to medical education (up to 3,000 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
ABSTRACT (Sections in bold: Introduction, Development, Conclusion)
KEYWORDS
INTRODUCTION
FREE DEVELOPMENT
CONCLUSIONS OR FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
REFERENCES

Review article: article based exclusively on secondary sources, containing critical review of literature pertinent to the scope of the Journal (up to 5,000 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
ABSTRACT (Sections in bold: Introduction, Objective, Method, Result, Conclusion)
KEYWORDS
INTRODUCTION
METHOD
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSIONS OR FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
REFERENCES

Experience report: article that presents innovative experience in medical education, along with pertinent theoretical reflection (up to 3,000 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
ABSTRACT (Sections in bold: Introduction, Experience report, Discussion, Conclusion)
KEYWORDS
INTRODUCTION
EXPERIENCE REPORT
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSIONS OR FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
REFERENCES

Letter to the editor: Scientific content correspondence containing comment on materia published in previous editions of the Journal (up to 1,200 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
FREE DEVELOPMENT
REFERENCES

Book review: critical analysis (with reflexions and impacts for readers) of publications articulated with medical education launched in Brazil or abroad (up to 1,200 words).

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
FREE DEVELOPMENT
REFERENCES

Positioning, Consensus and Guidelines: the editors make an invitation to a working group that will be responsible for the in-depth review and consensual elaboration of the article on a specific topic (up to 8,000 words). Positions submitted spontaneously will not be accepted.

Structure of the manuscript:
TITLE
KEYWORDS
INTRODUCTION
FREE DEVELOPMENT
CONCLUSIONS OR FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
REFERENCES

Authors' Contribution

Fill out the form available at the link after submitting the manuscript, containing the following information: submission ID, titles in Portuguese and English, keywords according to DeCS, number of authors, name, gender, email, phone, institution, and role within the institution, ORCID registration number, and specific contribution of each author to the work using the relevant functions of CRedit;

Information on the existence or absence of conflicts of interest. If there is a financial conflict of interest, authors must provide funding details, including the project registration number. If AI was used in the manuscript, this should also be indicated on the form.

Manuscript Preparation

  • Title: this should contain no more than 15 words and be written in two versions. A version in Portuguese or Spanish, depending on the language of the article, and another in English.
  • Abstract: this should contain no more than 350 words and be written in two versions. A version according to the idiom of the article and another one in English, for the ones originally written in Portuguese/Spanish or in Portuguese for the ones originally written in English. It must be flowing text and have the sections marked in bold as described in the article category.
  • Keywords: there should be 3 to 5 words extracted from the Health Science Descriptors (DeCS), for abstracts in Portuguese and Medical Subject Heading (MeSH), for abstracts in English.
  • Number of authors: The maximum number of authors in all categories is six, except in the category “Positions”, where the number of authors will be indicated by the editorial board, and in the category “Original article” when the manuscript presents results of multicentric projects, when the number of authors will be three authors per center. . If the number of authors exceeds this number, a letter with justification must be sent to the editor (rbem.abem@gmail.com) highlighting the authorship criteria individually for each author.. No authors may be added after the article has been accepted.

Article Submission Format

File: Word, A4 paper (21 cm x 29.7 cm ou 8.3" x 11.7").

Font: Arial 11, line space of 1.5 and margins of 2.0 cm or 0,79” (right, left, top and bottom).

Alignment: Justified.

Section titles: Place 1 of 1.5 space between the text of the previous topic and the title of the subsequent one. They must be in bold and capital letters and capital letter only the first letter.

Subtitles: Place 1 of 1.5 space between the text of the previous topic and the title of the subsequent one. They must be in bold.

Sub-subtitles: Place 1 of 1.5 space between the text of the previous topic and the title of the subsequent one. They must be in bold, capital letter only the first letter and in italics.

Sub-sub-subtitles: Place 1 of 1.5 space between the text of the previous topic and the title of the subsequent one. They must be in bold, capital letter only the first letter, in italics and underlined.

Citations up to 3 lines: It must be inserted in the text and be enclosed in quotation marks.

Citation with more than 3 lines: It should be a separate paragraph, with a 4 cm indentation from the left margin, single-spaced, in italics, and with font 10.

Direct citation in the body of the article: More than 1 author, quote the first and then add et al.

References in the body of the article: They must be in superscript, without parentheses, before punctuation and without space between the word, number and punctuation (examples: medical education¹. medical education¹,2 medical education1-4. medical education1,5,8-11).

Footnotes: Will not be accepted.

No supplementary files or attachments will be published.

Digital Assets

Illustrative representation: have title and numbering at the top, which must have a period after it (example: Table 1. Title), and font at the bottom. Abbreviations, if present, must appear in the first line at the bottom (Abbreviations:). The symbols for explanations must be identified with superscript alphabet letters and explained at the bottom with font 10. The maximum number of files is 5.

They must be inserted in the body of the article according to the instructions below:

  •  Tables: should contain only horizontal borders.
  •  Figures: must have good resolution, at least 300 DPI.
  •  Frames: must contain horizontal and vertical borders on their sides and in the separation of the houses.
  •  Charts: must contain the caption.

Citations and References

References: formatting follows the Vancouver style, according to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals, published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). References should be cited numerically and as they appear in the text. The names of the journals must be abbreviated according to the style used in the Index Medicus.

Examples of references are available.

Supplementary Documents

Financing Statement

Provide sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources.

Contact

Associação Brazileira de Educação Médica
SCN - QD 02 - BL D - Torre A - Salas 1021 e 1023
Asa Norte | CEP: 70712-903
Brasília | DF | Brazil
Phone: (61) 3024-9978 / 3024-8013
E-mail: rbem.abem@gmail.com

 

 

Associação Brasileira de Educação Médica SCN - QD 02 - BL D - Torre A - Salas 1021 e 1023 , Asa Norte | CEP: 70712-903, Brasília | DF | Brasil, Tel.: (55 61) 3024-9978 / 3024-8013 - Brasília - DF - Brazil
E-mail: rbem.abem@gmail.com
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