About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Theme and scope

The EDUMECENTRO magazine constitutes the informative scientific organ of educators in health sciences in the central region of the country, based at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences .It is the official organ of the Society of Educators in Health Sciences.Villa Clara Chapter.

In 2022, the magazine adopts the continuous publication modality, a single volume will appear per year and the articles will be published in the established period.It is published on the web page with the address: http://www.revedumecentro.sld.cu

OBJECTIVE

Its objective is to spread scientific information about the events of medical education and its impact on the development of the training processes of health professionals in Cuba and the rest of the world.

Its mission is to spread  the results of the scientific work of educators in health sciences, whose articles meet the requirements established for serial scientific publications, to achieve a stable and quality operation supported by compliance with its editorial policy and the work of the reviewers, the constant improvement of the members of its councils, experts and users; extend the visibility of your articles by being indexed in national and international databases and favoring their citationability; all of which contributes to the development of medical education and promotes the exchange of scientific production of educators from different scientific communities.

It is projected with the following vision: the journal has excellent prestige nationally and internationally, it is indexed in various databases that give visibility to the scientific-pedagogical work of its users, and its articles are referenced by authors from other publications. National and international.

Its thematic profile addresses aspects associated with the training processes in medical sciences universities, curricular design and its improvement, special teaching methodologies in health sciences, evaluation and accreditation processes in these institutions, information technologies, information and communication, the universalization of higher education in health sciences and its challenges, postgraduate education and its transformations, and university extension and its potential.

Authors can publish original articles, review articles, position papers, letters to the editor, and research papers.The Editorial Board reserves the right to select the authors of the editorial and the interview.

EDUMECENTRO adheres to the policy of open access to scientific publication. It also complies with the certification requirements established for scientific-technological serial publications, provided for in article 20 of Resolution No. 59/2003 of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce style changes and/or limit the texts that require it, always respecting the original content.

EDUMECENTRO is not responsible for the opinions or criteria of the authors, nor does it accept works that have been previously published or are under the consideration of the Editorial Board of another national or foreign journal. The publication rules can be consulted before submitting an article on the journal's website, whose electronic address is: www.revedumecentro.sld.cu,

Peer Review Process

Open peer review: This journal conveniently uses open peer review practices as a mechanism to promote transparency in the editorial and scientific communication process.This type of review reveals the identities of both authors and reviewers, and authors have the ability to identify reviewers' comments.

The peer review policy is followed for those scientific articles submitted by authors who meet the publication standards.This process protects both users and experts carrying out the review, maintains special care with established ethical standards, and avoids conflicts of interest.

Once the article has been sent through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform by its authors, it is submitted to a review process that begins with the scientific editor, who sends it to one of the section editors, and they, in turn, time, they send it to the referees that the journal has declared to be processed through the peer review method; which will use the evaluation guide established for each type of article, available on our platform. Subsequently, these specialists issue a diagnosis according to the following categories: publishable without markings, accepted with major fixes, accepted with minor fixes, or rejected. The authors are informed of the result of the opinion.

The editorial and editorial boards of the magazine reserve the right to reject articles that they deem inappropriate for publication.

Review Process: Once the manuscript is registered, it goes through the review or arbitration process, which takes into account that:

  • The arbitration group or reviewers will be the responsibility of the Editorial Committee.
  • The referees will comply with the arbitration regulations adopted by the journal, based on the arbitration guide.
  • 2 specialized referees will be appointed according to the theme that the manuscript deals with.
  • If the arbitrators do not agree on their criteria, a third party will be appointed.
  • A form will be used where the criteria and arguments of the arbitration are reflected. This constitutes the arbitration guide.
  • The work must be evaluated and its results recorded in the space designated for this purpose within a period of 60 days.

Once the result is received, the suggestions of the referees will be reconciled. The Editorial Committee will make the decision to accept the submission without restrictions, to communicate the observations and suggestions so that it may be reworked and submitted for review, or to reject it for major adjustments.

  • The results of the review will be communicated by email to the first author, which can be:
  • Acceptance of the manuscript. In this case, it will go to the editing and publishing process.
  • Return for minor repairs. In this case, the author(s) will have between 15 and 30 days to proceed to prepare a new version, taking into account the recommendations of the review process and register it in the same space as the previous one. Once registered, you will go through the review process again. If after 30 days the corrected work is not received, the Editorial Committee can make the decision to extend the date for another 30 days, or archive it, notifying the first author by email. If it is archived and the author or authors maintain their desire to publish in the journal, they must register it as a new manuscript, making a comment to the editor in the corresponding space of the 1st step of the registration, explaining that it obeys a 2nd.version of the work whose title is stated.
  • Return for major repairs. In this case, the main author is notified by email of the review considerations and that the work will be archived. It will be clarified that if you maintain the intention to publish it in the journal, you must register it as a new submission, making a comment to the editor in the corresponding space of the 1st step of the registration, explaining that it is due to a new version of the work whose title is recorded.

 

Document evaluation guide: in the peer review process, the reviewers can fill out the review form through the guides that are set out below. They can also access the following documents that contribute to the orientation of the work of the arbitrators.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides free and immediate access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public. (See The effect of open access)

EDUMECENTRO agrees with the Declaration of Open Access of Budapest - BOAI 2002, for which "it allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any purpose without any financial, legal or technical barriers, apart from those that are inseparable from Internet access itself" (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/translations/spanish-translation).

To reinforce this open access policy, EDUMECENTRO is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license, which allows sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (remixing, transforming and creating from the material) , under the following conditions: authorship is acknowledged, no commercial use is made of the materials, and new creations are licensed under the same terms (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es ).

This journal does not charge fees neither for the submission of articles, nor for the processing or publication of them.

Sponsors

Cuban Society of Educators in Health Sciences and Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences