The Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine (AIPM) (Journal of the Association of Resident Doctors, UCH Chapter) is published tri-annually. The Editorial Board welcomes contributions in all fields of medicine including medical technology, as well as economic, social and ethical issues related to the practice of medicine especially in a developing country. It is meant to meet the continuing educational needs of postgraduate doctors as well as stimulate research and academic pursuit.

Editorial Style

The Journal follows the British conventions of spelling, punctuation and grammar.  All submitted articles must have excellent design and correct methods of statistical analysis.  The statistical methods must be appropriate to the study. Interpretation of data must be correct and accurate.

Peer Review

We operate a double-blinded peer review system. All submitted articles are first read by at least a member of the Editorial Board. Those potentially acceptable are then passed on to reviewers who are experts in the various fields concerned. We ask reviewers to comment on the originality, scientific reliability and clinical relevance or usefulness. Those adjudged suitable are then submitted to the statistician for statistical review. Those that fall short may be rejected outrightly or sent back to authors for corrections.  Those that successfully pass through all the stages will be considered for publication.

Ethics

Studies and trials involving human beings must contain a statement that it was approved by the regional or institutional ethical committee. It must also show that the human subjects gave their informed consent and assent where applicable. Authors should also affirm that they have obtained consent to publish identifying pictures of patients

Plagiarism Check

All manuscripts submitted for publication will undergo checks for plagiarism and other forms of misconduct in scientific writing. All authors are strongly advised to familiarize themselves with the principles of ethical conduct in scientific writing and to abide by these principles. The journal holds strongly these ethical principles and would not tolerate any form of ethical misconduct or wrong doings.

Any identified ethical misconduct in scientific writing in a submitted or published manuscript will be further investigated. All cases of confirmed plagiarism or other editorial misconduct will be addressed using the guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Appropriate sanctions would be determined by the editorial board and communicated to authors, institutions of authors and/or funding agencies as deemed necessary.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must declare all conflict of interests related to the conceptualization, or execution of a research in manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Contribution of Authors/ Authorship

A statement on the contribution of all authors must be included in the manuscript. The requirements for authorship and for preparation of manuscripts submitted to the journal are in accordance with the “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals” available on the ICMJE website (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/) 

Acknowledgement

Individuals who participated in the research but who do not meet the threshold for authorship according to COPE guidelines may be included in the authorship segment

Copyright Information

Following the acceptance and publishing of any article in the Journal, the copyright of the paper will be vested in the Journal and Publisher. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in any retrieval system without the written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Any article published in this journal will be licensed under the Creative Common License by Non-Commercial version 3.0 (CC BY-NC 3.0).

Retraction

Retractions of articles submitted for publication or of published articles which are found to breach ethical guidelines, or contain fraudulent data, which comprise the integrity of the scientific literature will be done according to COPE guidelines. Authors are also allowed to request for retraction of published articles but such request must be accompanied by a cover letter detailing reasons for the request. Such a request will be considered by the board and appropriate response given. For published articles, retraction notices will contain the link to the original article and the retracted article would also contain a link to the retraction notice.

Corrections (Addendum, Erratum and Corrigendum):

Addendum

An Addendum will be published at the request of authors if significant information was observed to be unintentionally omitted from the original publication. When an Addendum is published, a hyperlink to the Addendum will be added to the original publication and the link to the original article also included in the addendum.

Erratum
An erratum will be published if a significant error has been introduced by us during the process of copy editing and production of a journal article. Such publication will be done at the request of the authors, detailing the errors observed. An Erratum will have its hyperlink added to the original publication and the link to the original article also included in the erratum.

Corrigendum
A corrigendum will be published if a significant error was made by the authors of a published article during the preparation of the manuscript. Such publication will be done at the request of the authors, detailing the errors made and corrections requested. A corrigendum will have its hyperlink added to the original publication and the link to the original article also included in the corrigendum.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Disclaimer

Whilst every effort is made by the editorial board and publisher to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions or statements appear in this journal. We wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Due to rapid advances in the medical sciences, we recommend that independent verification of diagnosis and drug dosages should be made.