The Malawi Medical Journal is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original articles, reviews, case studies and correspondence about all aspects of practice, education, policy and research in medicine. The Journal hopes to encourage the study of medicine in Malawi and the southern African region but also globally. These guidelines are based on those of a number of international medical journals, including JAMA and the Croatian Medical Journal, and comply with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editor’s “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication” (www.icmje.org).
Manuscripts are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they have been submitted solely to the Malawi Medical Journal and that they have not been previously published, either whole or in part elsewhere. This does not refer to abstracts presented in the Proceedings of Societies or Conferences/Symposia. All original contributions are reviewed by the editors, and when appropriate, sent to one or more editorial consultants. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in all matter published in the Journal. Manuscripts must be submitted through the online manuscript submission and review system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmj. If you have difficulties with the ScholarOne Manuscripts site, please send a query to mmjeditors@medcol.mw 0r check Author Submission guide: https://mchelp.manuscriptcentral.com/gethelpnow/training/author/.
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