A thirteen year audit of manuscripts related to medical education published in leading medical journals of Pakistan.
OBJECTIVE
To audit the number and type of published articles related to medical education in leading Pakistani biomedical journals.


METHODS
The audit covered the period from January 2001 to December 2013. Journals either indexed in Medline or having an impact factor were selected. The audit was done in two phases. First, articles related to medical education were screened by reading the titles. Then abstracts were studied and articles were placed into several pre-defined categories based on article type and research topic. Data was analysed using SPSS 20.


RESULTS
A total of 118 relevant articles were published. Of them, 60(51%) articles were published in the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 42(35.6%) in the Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 4(3.4%) in Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, and 12(10.2%) in the Journal of Ayub Medical College. Articles related to curriculum development were 33(28.0 %), teaching 28(23.7%), assessment 29(24.6%), faculty training 5(4.2%), continuous medical education 4(3.4%), ethics 3(2.5%), and others 16(13.6%).


CONCLUSIONS
There is a need to increase the quality of health profession education research, documentation and audit of the global contribution of Pakistani medical educationists.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Farooq Azam
FA
Rathore
University of Health Sciences, Lahore, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ahmed
A
Waqas
University of Health Sciences, Lahore, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ahmed Marjan
AM
Zia
D015706:Bibliometrics; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010154:Pakistan; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D012106:Research; D000070260:Teacher Training
Audit, Medical education, Health professions education.