Introduction

World Journal of Biomedical Research is an official publication of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. Her vision is to pool together the rich resource of knowledge that emanates from our Research Scientist from the various fields of Medicine and Biomedical Science in a systematic and reproducible form. It is published biannually. It publishes original laboratory and clinical research articles, case reports, short communication, letter to Editor and technical reports in all fields of Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, and Allied Medical Specialties such as Nursing, Medical Laboratory Sciences and other related areas. The journal also reviews important new developments or controversial issues in any of the mentioned fields through invited contributions from recognized authorities.

Call for Papers

Manuscripts for publication should be in Medical Specialties, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Paramedical areas such as Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Medical Laboratory Sciences and other related areas.

Manuscripts should conform to uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (published in BMJ, 1997, 314: 1-10). Manuscripts for submission include original articles, review articles, case reports, short communication, letters to the editor, images in medical practice and technical reports.

All manuscripts must be in English. They must be typed on A4 paper size page, double space, times new roman font size 12 with margins of at least 25mm and must be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. Each section should begin on a new page. The manuscript should not exceed 3,000 words. They should include the following sections in the outlined sequence.

  1. Title page: This should include the title of the article, the surname first and middle initials of each author with institutional affiliations and addresses and e-mail of all authors corresponding author.
  2. Abstract: this would be a structured abstract not exceeding 250 words, original research article should contain the following sections:
  3. Background: this provides a brief background to the study including its justification.
  4. Objective: contains the aim of the study.
  5. Study design: settings, subjects and/or materials and methods: this section gives a broad description of the type of study, the site where the study was carried out and the participants/subjects/materials used in the study. Intervention (if any) should also be included here.
  6. Results: these include the main outcome measures and also outline the main findings from the study.
  7. Conclusion: this gives the main conclusions and major recommendations (if any) of the study.
  8. Keywords: three to six keywords for indexing and retrieval purposes.
  9. Introduction
  10. Materials and Methods
  11. Results
  12. Discussion/Conclusion
  13. References: references should be listed in Vancouver style
  14. Tables and Figures

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft word format and submitted by e-mail attachment to wjbmr2014@gmail.com and link to journal website: www.wjbmr.org.

Promotion/Marketing Editor
World Journal of Biomedical Research
Faculty of clinical sciences, University of Uyo
P.M.B1017. Uyo, Nigeria
E-mail: wjbmr2014@gmail.com
Tel: 08033032191

Publication Schedule

The Journal is published twice a year (April and September)

Editorial Board

Position Name Affiliation Email
Editor-in-Chief Dr. Emmanuel Olu Megbelayin Department of Ophthalmology, University of Uyo, Uyo favouredolu@yahoo.com
Deputy Editor-In-Chief Dr. Timothy Ekwere Department of Heamatology, University of Uyo, Uyo timothyekwere@yahoo.com
Promotion/Marketing Editor Dr. Felix Uduma Department of Radiology, University of Uyo, Uyo felixuduma@yahoo.com
Secretary of the Board Dr. Agantem Ekuma Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Uyo, Uyo agantemekuma@uniuyo.edu.ng
Member Prof. Dianabasi Eduwem Department of Radiology, University of Uyo, Uyo eduwemjoy@yahoo.com
Member Prof. Eyo Ekpe Department of Surgery, University of Uyo, Uyo docekpe@yahoo.com
Member Prof. Enobong Ikpeme Department of Paediatrics, University of Uyo, Uyo enpeks@yahoo.com
Member Prof. Anietie E. Moses Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Uyo, Uyo anietiemoses@uniuyo.edu.ng
Member Prof. Inyang A. Atting Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Uyo, Uyo dr_atting@yahoo.com
Member Prof. Aniekan Abasiattai Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Uyo, Uyo animan74@yahoo.com
Member Dr. Timothy Nottidge Department of Orthopaedics, University of Uyo, Uyo timnottidge@yahoo.com
Editorial Assistant Itohowo Ebong Institute of Health Research and Development, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo ebongitohowo@gmail.com

Editorial Advisers

Name Affiliation Email
Prof. Joseph J. Andy Department of Internal Medicine, University of Uyo, Uyo andyumanah@gmail.com
Prof. Paul Ekwere Department of Surgery, University of Uyo, Uyo pekwere@hotmail.com
Prof. Memfin D. Ekpo Department of Pathology, University of Uyo, Uyo memfinekpo@gmail.com
Prof. Etete Peters Department of Internal Medicine, University of Uyo, Uyo etetepeters@yahoo.com
Prof. Victor A. Inem Department of Family Medicine, University of Lagos vinem@yahoo.com
Prof. Ekere Essien College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA ejessien@central.uh.edu

Correspondence

All correspondence should be forwarded to the:

Editor-in-Chief
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, University of Uyo, Uyo
Akwa Ibom State
Email - wjbmr2014@gmail.com

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