About the Journal
Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Revista Médica del IMSS) is a bimonthly publication of the Dirección de Prestaciones Médicas of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, first published in 1962. It serves as the official platform for disseminating clinical and epidemiological research conducted within the most important social security institution in Mexico.
Since 2018, the journal has been published exclusively in electronic format, requiring neither subscription nor access codes to consult its content. All content is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Only unpublished articles written in Spanish are accepted. To better organize its content, Revista Médica del IMSS classifies submissions into the following sections:
✔ Editorials
✔ Original Contribution
✔ Opinion Article
✔ Review Article
✔ Letter to the Editor
✔ Clinical Cases
✔ Others (Ethics, Education, History, and Philosophy of Medicine)
To submit a manuscript for evaluation, users must register with an author role in the journal’s online portal. Upon submission, the article is assigned a registration number or identifier and undergoes an initial review to verify compliance with author guidelines and required attachments (conflict of interest statement, authorship acknowledgment, and copyright transfer). Additionally, the editorial team evaluates the article’s contribution to health sciences knowledge. Based on this evaluation, the article may proceed to the double-blind peer review stage.
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