ISSN 0121-0319 ISSN 1794-5240 |
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Scope and policy
MÉDICAS UIS, the Journal of Medical Students of Universidad Industrial de Santander, with 5 years of experience, has established itself as the first one, created and edited only by students in the country. It is also the third oldest of its kind in Latin America. Through its publications of scientific-medical kind, it aims at the dissemination of scientific and training of its readers in various fields of biomedical knowledge and specialties in the field of health. MÉDICAS UIS is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in the area of health, general practitioners, specialists and other professionals related to human health, who receives information from a wide variety of topics distributed in the various sections of the publication. The articles are created by students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and specialists who aim to show the results of their work or research findings. Also, these are evaluated and endorsed by highly qualified scientist specialists in their field, according to the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the National Bibliographic Index PUBLINDEX-Colciencias Colombia. MÉDICAS UIS publishes every four months and it is published in the city of Bucaramanga, Santander Department, Colombia. |
Form and preparation of manuscripts
1. EDITORIAL PROCESS Once manuscripts are received, they are valued by the First Assessment Committee of MÉDICAS UIS, which is attached to the Department of Publishing Possibilities. In this review, it is set if the text meets the minimum requirements outlined in Publication: classification, components and interest to the community. With this observation, it is determined whether this should be applied again to the author or it has the possibility of being published. Any document that is a candidate for publication in MÉDICAS UIS, then it proceeds to the Editorial Department. At this time, the reception date is established and an editor is assigned, this editor will be responsible for ensuring the design, literary and scientific manuscript quality. This editor will conduct a further review to check the minimum components include publishing and editorial sections such as letterhead and subspecialty. If the manuscript is accepted, the text will be reviewed further by the chief of Editorial Department, who formalized the entry within MÉDICAS UIS Editorial Process. Within this, multiple rounds of review and verification will be performed by the committees Editor Specialist Internal and External Consultant, made up of scientists with MSc or PhD degree in the area, who ensure the highest quality literary and scientific accuracy. Once the necessary rounds are performed, the number and duration is set according to the complexity, type, quality and length of the text, we proceed to the drafting of Opinion Editorial, a document in which are recorded all corrections, opinions and suggestions collected during the reviews mentioned. The Editorial Opinion has a response time limit by the author of two to three weeks, depending on the nature of the same. Upon receipt of this reply, the managing editor proceeds to review the information changed or added, provided that, this has been in line with the request and therefore has the criteria for publication, is in that moment when you set the date reception. MÉDICAS UIS reserves the right to publish based on scientific and literary standards that drive, so the fact that an item starts the editorial process does not require a final termination of the process and its subsequent dissemination. After the publication of the document has been accepted, we proceed to the conversion of the graphical environment based on the design parameters of MEDICAL UIS, this process is called Layout. After completing this step, make new rounds of review or lasers, to detect new errors of form or style that can keep the text. Then proceed to the correction of such errors and sending the manuscript to the authors diagrammed process called Galley. It is at this point that the authors make the final corrections of important details that are diagrammed in article, having a term of not more than 48 hours of receipt. If no response is received within the stipulated time, the MÉDICAS UIS Manager Editor, he would automatically accepted final publication and article will instance departments MÉDICAS UISL Marketing and Publications at the University of Industrial Santander, who guarantee the print and online publication of the final manuscript. MÉDICAS UIS publishes only unpublished works and publication rights should be assigned exclusively to MÉDICAS UIS. With the proposal for publication of an article that has been exposed in an academic event or disclosed in other means of publication, the author must inform the Department of Publishing Possibilities. MÉDICAS UIS reserves the right to make changes in the text of articles in order to improve the language and information presented when it is absolutely necessary. MEDICAL UIS assumes no responsibility for the views expressed by the authors. Manuscripts can be sent to emails: medicasuis@gmail.com or posibilidadeseditoriales@gmail.com These addresses are protected from spam thefts. The electronic format must be sent in format. Doc or. Docx with the parameters that will be mentioned below. 2.TYPES OF ARTICLES: Original article or scientific and technological research Article: This document presents, in detail, the original results of research projects completed. The structure generally used contains four important parts: introduction, methodology, results and conclusions. Reflection article: This document presents results of completed research from an analytical, interpretative or critical, on a specific topic, using original sources. Review article: these are systematic reviews of the scientific literature are detailed studies, selective and critics that try to analyze and integrate essential information from primary studies research on a specific health problem, in order to account for the advances and trends development. It is characterized by a careful review of the literature of at least 50 references. It differs from a meta-analysis article in the latter the author presents a reasonable synthesis with a statistical analysis of the results found in studies. Topic Review: This document is the result of a critical review of the literature on a particular topic. Case presentation: this is a review and presentation of clinical cases of medical interest, accompanied by a review of the literature based on the exposure and found epidemiologically usual in the case. Minimum 20 references included in the text. Clinical cases: these are academic exercises of interpretation of clinical history and laboratory test results, aimed at exposing difficult cases, unusual or atypical presentation suggesting a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Letters to the editor: these are comments of general interest to the field of health or articles published in MEDICAS UIS. Similarly, trials of medical legislation, its implications, social and economic impact, perspectives and constructive conclusions that open space for discussion and questioning based our position on policy issues pertaining to health. Medicine history: These are historical aspects of relevance in any area of medicine. They are suggested readings at the end. Current biomedical: in this type of article demonstrates the latest advances in the biomedical sciences, policy or institutions editorial standards and current education policy in biomedicine. 3. PARTS OF AN ARTICLE AND ITS REVISION GENERAL
AUTHORSHIP LETTER
TITLE
AUTHORS
CREDITS
CORRESPONDENCE
ABSTRACT
Please note some details that are often overlooked:
KEYWORDS
SUMMARY, TITLE & KEYWORDS
ARTICLE BODY
These parties must usually be stated as a subtitle or section of the article. Please, be careful with:
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
ANNEXES ILUSTRATIONS
TABLES
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Sending of manuscripts
Manuscripts can be sent to emails: medicasuis@gmail.com or posibilidadeseditoriales@gmail.com These addresses are protected from spam thefts. The electronic format must be sent in format. Doc or. Docx with the parameters that will be mentioned below. |
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