Our Events
For the IFEMED Journal Club, the journal year is replete with exciting and scintillating events that our board members, publication committee members, editorial board members, and members of the Obafemi Awolowo University Medical Students’ Association, IFUMSA, and the public look forward to it.
IFEMED Journal Club Research Courses
We offer free courses for students and upcoming researchers as a way of giving back to the student community. Feel free to check out our basics of research course.
About us
IFEMED Journal Club is the Official Journal Club of the Obafemi Awolowo Medical Students’ Association. We are involved in hosting journal club activities, research education for medical students and article publishing in our IFEMED Journal.
Since its inception in 1975, the journal club has proved to be worthy of its repute by an unrelenting effort in publishing scientific journals on topical issues in contemporary healthcare.
As of today, we have 26 volumes of the journal spanning across 47 years under selected themes including:
- Malaria
- Infectious Diseases in Children
- Cancer in Nigeria
- Diseases of the Gut
- Blood Disorders in Nigeria
- Public Health in Nigeria
- Maternal Mortality
- Infectious diseases
- Depression
- Emergency Medicine
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Critical Care
- COVIDemic
General Questions
Membership of the IFEMED Journal Club is opened only to students in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences of the Obafemi Awolowo University. Once in the academic session, we call for applications to be submitted.
Traditionally, all applicants are to fill out a form, submit two academic articles and participate in an interview process after which the Editorial members decide on whom to admit into the club.
Very recent articles published in the Journal are available on Academia; suffice to say that articles in the Journal are widely cited globally due to our high impact publications. Presently, we rank in the top 2% of all publications on Academia globally.
Please do make a formal request for it/them via email if you wish to purchase copies of the journal
The Campus Doctor is an arm of IFEMED saddled with publishing original research articles and more recently, systematic reviews in the IFEMED journal. The Campus Doctor also publishes plagiarism-free, easy-to-understand articles every month that can be accessed here.
Please do make a formal request for it/them via email if you wish to purchase copies of the journal
Individuals particularly healthcare workers are invited to send in their articles for publication. However, do check out the notice to contributors to ensure that your articles conform with our guidelines.
The journal is published once in an academic session and each edition has a unique theme.
Yes, you can advertise in our journals to connect your organisation and products to our audience. Do send in an email if you wish to feature an advertisement of your products or company in our journal.
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