EDITORIAL

WILSON BAUTISTA MOLANO MD, PhD(c)

Internist, Rheumatologist
Editor Scientific research journal
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

The experience as an author of several articles in national and international journals together with the accompaniment carried out in MED magazine has allowed me to understand in detail the importance of manuscripts in the dissemination and socialization of scientific knowledge. However, this circumstance has allowed me to observe that sometimes articles that arrive at the Editorial Committee and that even are evaluated by pairs, lack the structure required to a research article. In many cases, manuscripts that are not considered for publication have difficulty expressing clearly the content and message of the research work and also do not present sufficient coordination and balance between their parts. Aware of the existence of a large volume of information and bibliography in the literature, this document intends to emphasize the importance of the optimal drafting and structural organization that the authors should have when they want to present the results of their work through Our magazine.

There are multiple definitions of scientific articles. Without entering into conceptual and nosological definitions, the following definition is widely accepted. Is a written document that describes and presents in a clear and precise way the original results of an investigation already carried out on a certain area of knowledge. Its main characteristic lies in the fact that it reflects an advance in knowledge and therefore can only fulfill its purpose when it has been published and made available and reviewed by the scientific community so that it can be incorporated by its peers. In this way, the scientific article already published can have an impact among the scientific community in the specific area of knowledge. In the academic environment, the scientific article seeks to encourage the development of experimental and innovative methods among researchers and to motivate the personnel in training to participate in these processes especially in the writing of the same ones.

Taking into account the above, an original manuscript should be a document that provides sufficient information so that readers and reviewers can know the purpose of the research work and in which the details of how this work was performed are described in detail. It should also include a deep and academic analysis of the results, their implications in the area of knowledge, comparison and interpretation with similar studies, discrepancy with other published results and finally it is necessary to describe the contribution that represents the work.

MED Magazine as a scientific and academic dissemination body of the Faculty of Medicine of the New Granada Military University will continue to promote the dissemination of the knowledge of the national and international scientific community in the area of Medicine and Health Sciences, maintaining high standards Of editorial management in order to publish manuscripts of high academic rigor and that reflect contributions in the medical area.

Therefore we extend the invitation to authors interested in sending us their original manuscripts of scientific or technological research to be postulated for publication in MED Magazine through the following link:

http://revistas.unimilitar.edu.co/index.php/rmed/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions