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Join WAME
What is WAME?
The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) was established in March 1995 to achieve the following goals:
- to facilitate worldwide cooperation and communication among editors of peer-reviewed medical journals;
- to improve editorial standards, to promote professionalism in medical editing through education, self-criticism and self-regulation;
- to encourage research on the principles and practice of medical editing.
The founding members also agreed that members of WAME shall be dedicated to high ethical and scientific principles in the pursuit of the following common goals:
- to publish original, important, well-documented peer-reviewed articles on clinical and laboratory research;
- to provide continuing education in basic and clinical sciences to support informed clinical decision making;
- to enable physicians to remain informed in one or more areas of medicine;
- to improve public health internationally by improving the quality of medical care, disease prevention and medical research;
- to foster responsible and balanced debate on controversial issues and policies affecting medicine and health care;
- to promote peer review as a vehicle for scientific discourse and quality assurance in medicine and to support efforts to improve peer review;
- to achieve the highest level of ethical medical journalism;
- to promote self-audit and scientifically supported improvement in the editing process;
- to produce publications that are timely, credible and enjoyable to read;
- to forecast important issues, problems and trends in medicine and health care;
- to inform readers about non-clinical aspects of medicine and public health, including political, philosophic, ethical, environmental, economic, historical and cultural issues;
- to recognize that, in addition to these specific objectives, a medical journal has a social responsibility to improve the human condition and safeguard the integrity of sciences.
Criteria for membership in WAME
- At the inaugural meeting of WAME in September 1997, participants agreed that WAME’s activities are directed primarily toward active editors or ex-editors of peer-reviewed biomedical journals and scholars who seriously study the discipline of scholarly medical publishing. Editors are defined as those responsible and accountable for determining the scientific content of a peer-reviewed biomedical journal. A peer-reviewed biomedical journal is defined by the Vancouver Group (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) as "one that has submitted most of its published articles for review by experts who are not part of the editorial staff." The participants also agreed that others who have an interest in medical journal editing and peer review may apply for associate membership.
- Applicants for full membership in WAME should include with their application evidence that their journal is peer reviewed or that they are actively involved in the scholarly study of medical editing. Editors should also send along a copy of their journal’s masthead and "instructions for authors."
Membership Application Form
Fill out the Online Membership Application Form.
The form is also available in plain text for faxing or mailing to:
Bruce P. Squires, 1 - 96 Frank St, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2P 0X2, fax: (613) 237-0009, e-mail: bpsquires@sympatico.ca. Individuals using a browser earlier than 4.0 should use the plain text version.
If you journal does not have a Web site that displays the journal editors and editorial board and the instructions for authors, please to mail e-mail or fax a copy of a recent issue of your journal, plus any published information indicating that your journal is peer reviewed. Scholars should include a publication list or other evidence of their serious study of medical journal editing or peer review.
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