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Professional Reading

As health professionals and faculty, there are a number of publications that we should be paying attention to with some regularity. Staying abreast of issues in higher ed and new pedagogical methods, as well as topics in health and healthcare, can be challenging. Below are a list of the major publications in higher education and alternative health.

Explore journals in your area of expertise, but be sure to keep up with some of the titles on this page.

Top Publications on Higher Education

Chronicle of Higher Education
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BMC Medical Education
BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.

Top Publications for NWHSU Health and Healthcare Topics

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
International scientific forum for the dissemination of information to healthcare professionals regarding the use of complementary & alternative therapies in promoting health & healing.
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles on interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies, with a specific emphasis on research that explores the biological mechanisms of action, as well as their efficacy, safety, costs, patterns of use and/or implementation.
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
Focuses on topics in complementary therapies.
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: eCAM
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine seeks to apply scientific rigor to the study of complementary and alternative medicine, emphasizing on health outcome, while documenting biological mechanisms of action.
Integrative and Complementary Therapies
The leading journal delivering practical and evidence-based content focused on integrative medical therapies.
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA Health Forum
JAMA Health Forum is an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health, and health care.
JAMA Open Network
JAMA Network Open is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, general medical journal that publishes research on clinical care, innovation in health care, health policy, and global health across all health disciplines and countries for clinicians, investigators, and policy makers.
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
The Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine (JEBIM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on hypothesis-driven and evidence-based research in all fields of integrative medicine.
Journal of Integrative Medicine
JIM is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on academic research and clinical studies in the field of integrative medicine. It aims to be a leading journal for studies in integrative medicine, and to promote communication and integration among traditional medicinal systems, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and conventional western medicine.
Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
eJTCM is committed to publish research providing the biological and clinical grounds for using Traditional and Complementary Medical treatments as well as studies that demonstrate the pathophysiological and molecular/biochemical bases supporting the effectiveness of such treatments.
Townsend Letters
As a forum for the entire alternative medicine community, Townsend Letter presents scientific information (pro and con) on a wide variety of alternative medicine topics.