SPECIAL COLLECTION 2025

Aims and scope

The goal of this special collection is to highlight the tremendous value CME and CPD offers to healthcare professionals and organisations in improving patient care.

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We are specifically seeking manuscripts that address, but are not limited to, the following categories:

• Leveraging and improving interprofessional teamwork: Effective care necessitates effective teamwork and education improves and optimises interprofessional teamwork. 

• Ensuring effectiveness, quality and safety of care: CME/CPD that improves performance of healthcare professionals, teams and caregiving organisations.

• Improving patient or community health: CME/CPD is linked to advancing care goals, extending preventative care and addressing community health concerns.

• Advancing innovations and emerging science: education is a catalyst to disseminate knowledge and accelerate adoption of innovations. 

• Enhancing efficiency and cost effectiveness: Includes avoiding unnecessary procedures or treatments, minimising hospital readmissions and optimising workflows in care settings.

• Improving engagement: CME/CPD is a catalyst for organisational improvement and decreasing burnout of health professionals. 

• Trusted resource: CME/CPD is the mechanism to ensure content integrity and independence from commercial influence.

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Who should submit?

Authors from a wide range of stakeholders in continuing education are encouraged to submit to this special collection. CME and CPD are critical to the ongoing development of healthcare professionals and improvement of organisations to ensure trusted, effective and safe care is provided.
Sharing the evidence that demonstrates this value is the feature of this special collection.
Authors are welcome to discuss their ideas and/or manuscript with the editorial team prior to submission.

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Article types and Article Publishing Charges (APC)

Submissions can range from detailed research articles and case studies to brief commentaries. The types of articles that will be accepted and the APC (excluding VAT or other local taxes where applicable) are outlined below:

• "Research Article" up to 4,000 words (EUR 1,450 / USD 1,590)

• "Review Article" / "Systematic Review" up to 4,000 words (EUR 1,450 / USD 1,590)

• “Brief Report” up to 2,500 words (EUR 965 / USD 1,060)

• “Comment” up to 1,000 words (EUR 965 / USD 1,060 or free with prior approval from the guest editor)

Waivers and discounts are available, especially for authors from Low and Low-Middle Income countries,
more information can be found here.

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Submission deadline and publication 

The deadline for submission is 31 December 2025.

Articles will be processed and published as they are accepted.

This collection will feature at the 18th Annual European CME Forum, held 5–7 November 2025, in Manchester, UK.

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From the guest editor

View the letter from the guest editor below for more information.

Hear more about the 2025 Special Collection from the guest editor in this European CME Forum podcast episode.

The episode is also available to view as a video.