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Volume 109,
Issue 1
March 2023

Editor-in-Chief

Mark A. Bechtel, MD Ohio State University

ISSN: 2572-1801

eISSN: 2572-1852

About this Journal

The Journal of Medical Regulation is a peer-reviewed, editorially independent journal published by the Federation of State Medical Boards since 1913. JMR’s scholarly content examines interdisciplinary trends and topics of interest to the international community of medical regulators who protect the public’s health and safety through the licensing and disciplining of physicians and other health care professionals. By publishing evidence-based scholarship, JMR helps foster an environment in which the link between regulatory policies and health and social outcomes is better understood, and new knowledge is created upon which to base regulatory decisions.

Journal of Medical Regulation Announces New Editor-in-Chief

The Journal of Medical Regulation (JMR) is pleased to announce Mark A. Bechtel, MD, as the publication’s new Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Bechtel, a professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, will begin his role on May 1, 2023. Dr. Bechtel succeeds outgoing Editor-in-Chief Heidi M. Koenig, MD, who provided 7 years of outstanding leadership.

For more information, please read the press release available here.


Call for Submissions

The Journal of Medical Regulation extends an open call for submissions in 2023. We welcome manuscripts spanning original research, discussion of best practices, commentaries about patient safety, and related matters relevant to medical regulators in the United States and around the world.

Since 1913, the Journal of Medical Regulation (JMR) has served as a primary vehicle through which the U.S. medical regulatory community has shared new knowledge and best practices about physician licensure, discipline and regulation. The journal offers a thorough and fair yet rapid peer review process. All published content is made freely available to all readers upon publication with no article processing or publication fees levied upon authors.

For more information, please consult the instructions for authors on the JMR website at https://meridian.allenpress.com/jmr/pages/For-Authors .



JMR Archives

JMR is currently digitizing all of its back issues dating to 1913. In the interim, you may access PDF copies of back issues dating to the 1960's at jmr-archives.fsmb.org.

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