The Journal: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine"Wilderness & Environmental Medicine is the leading publication for cutting edge advances in the science and practice of wilderness medicine." --Paul S. Auerbach, MD
WMS Members: Access Information
WMS members now have seamless access to Wilderness & Environmental Medicine articles housed on wemjournal.org. As a WMS member, you can link directly to the Journal’s website by clicking on the "Current Issue" link above. Members will then be automatically directed to the Journal’s homepage, and will have full access to all content without having to supply a different username and password. Journal archives (or past issues) are freely accessible to members and visitors and do not require logging in.Once you see the screen (below) with the Welcome! message, no further logging in is necessary - you have access to member only content.
If a member directly accesses the Journal’s website (http://wemjournal.org) without first visiting the WMS website, he or she must log in to access current volume year content. In this case, please use the WMS Members Login button to login (at wms.org) and gain access to member only content.
Opportunity to Publish
The Wilderness Medical Society invites submissions to our journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (WEM) from authors who want to take advantage of our established publication's unique scope, wide readership, and international recognition in the field of wilderness medicine.
WEM is the quarterly medical journal of the Society's peer-reviewed publication dedicated to wilderness medicine topics. In 2009, WEM began its 19th year. Its audience is a diverse group of medical and and allied health professionals who choose WEM as their primary wilderness medical resource.
WEM receives cutting edge manuscripts from around the globe. Each is reviewed by a panel of the Journal's peer reviewers. The Editorial Board represents an international group of renowned experts whose focus is on the many aspects of wilderness medicine. With its full-text online access, WEM is even more accessible to its supportive readership and medical investigators.More Information: WEM Editorial Board
Instructions to Authors
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (WEM) journal is published by Elsevier Publishing.
Author Instructions Here you'll find descriptions on manuscript categories, how to format your paper, what goes on your title page, digital file requirements for figures, and a copyright release form that is required prior to publication. Manuscript Template Submit Manuscript When your manuscript is ready to submit to Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Please contact Jonna@wms.org if you have questions.
WEM Web-based Manuscript Submission and Peer Review
Elsevier Editorial System (EES), our online submission and peer review program, makes WEM journal more efficient, accommodating, and accessible to authors and peer reviewers worldwide. We join many other scientific journals in becoming all electronic – submitted, reviewed, and edited in electronic formats. Online manuscript submission and peer review streamlines the editorial process and shorten publication time, making papers in both electronic format and hardcopy format available much more quickly to our worldwide readership.Authors may continue to submit their papers to Managing Editor Jonna Barry on CD or via email. Mail CD to Jonna Barry, Editorial Office, 1505 N. Royer St., Colorado Springs, CO 80907 or send via email to jonna@wms.org.. The editorial staff will place the paper into EES so the authors still benefit from its streamlined review an editorial process. Read the Author Instructions before preparing, mailing, or emailing your manuscript
WEM CME Activity*
Beginning with WEM Vol. 18, No. 1, one (1) AMA PRA Category 1 Continuing Medical Education Credit is available to Wilderness Medical Society member physicians for each of the 3 predetermined CME articles per issue (a possible 12 CME credits per Volume). Login as a Member to access the CME articles.To obtain your CME credit, login as a Member and use the CME link to the articles, follow the link to the online questions, answer the questions correctly, and a CME certificate will be presented at the end of the test that you can print.
If you would like to be considered as a peer review for WEM journal, email a letter of introduction and your CV to Scott.McIntosh@hsc.utah.edu and jonna@wms.org.
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Permission to Republish
Copyright clearance and permission for the Journal should be directed to www.elsevier.com*CME Accreditation Information:
Objectives: After evaluating a specific article published in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine or viewing a specific lecture from the WMS Online Lecture Library, participants in the Wilderness Medical Society CME Program should be able to demonstrate an increase in, or affirmation of, their knowledge of wilderness medicine. Participants should be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the information as it applies to the provision of patient care or counseling.
Participants: This program is designed for physicians caring for individuals with wilderness medical problems or counseling patients about avoiding wilderness-related health problems who wish to advance their knowledge of wilderness medicine.
Credits: The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for between 0.5 and 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclaimer: The author of this article has signed a disclosure statement indicating that he/she has no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest with respect to this course content.
