News
January 28, 2005
New GMS Journal of Medical Education Online
Today the first issue of the 22nd volume of GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung - German Journal for Medical Education (GMS Z Med Ausbild; http://www.egms.de/en/journals/zma/index.htm) is online, the journal of the Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), Deutsche Sektion der European Association for Medical Education e.V. (http://www.gesellschaft-medizinische-ausbildung.org). For the first time, an electronic German language journal with text, graph, image and voice documents is launched. A global, open-access forum for information and communication is now available using the most advanced tools of the digital world to advance medical graduate and postgraduate education. This journal continues the tradition of German medical education publishing initiated by Dietrich Habeck in 1984 with the periodical "Medizinische Ausbildung" and later with the supplement "Medizinische Ausbildung" of the journal "Das Gesundheitswesen" by Florian Eitel beetween 1998 and 2004. The joint venture with the portal "German Medical Science (GMS)" and its founders "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wissenschaftlicher Medizinischer Fachgesellschaften (AWMF)", "Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information (DIMDI)" und "Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED)" as publisher brings to the GMA (a member society of AWMF) partnership with the largest medical electronic data host in Europe and the second largest medical library worldwide. The cooperation with DIMDI opens almost unlimited and sustained storage space and search functions. GMS Z Med Ausbild also will be immediately indexed in MEDLINE and will soon generate an impact factor by frequent citations. There will also be a print edition. Papers in English are welcome.
Contact: hahn@gesellschaft-medizinische-ausbildung.org (Editor of GMS Z Med Ausbild)
