The advantages of
open access publishing for educational purposes are demonstrated by the success
of BMC Surgery as a source of
articles for Medscape’s free online Continuing Medical Education
(CME) material.

Four articles from
the journal have already been featured by Medscape for CME. Readers of BMC Surgery articles can now build on
their CME activities via Medscape’s ACCME–accredited CME material.  BMC Surgery is an excellent choice for
researchers who want their clinically relevant research to reach practicing
clinicians, but this open access journal has also proven to be an exceptionally good source of educational material.

BMC
Psychiatry and BMC Family Practice
also feature in Medscape’s
CME activities.  We aim to expand
our relationship with Medscape further to include clinically relevant articles
from a broad range of BioMed
Central Journals. BMC Musculoskeletal
Disorders, BMC Neurology,
BMC Cardiovascular
Disorders and BMC Infectious Diseases  will be sources of CME from the medical BMC series journals in the
coming months with plans to include many more BioMed Central journals in the
future.

List of BMC Surgery CME articles

Quality
of Life Before Surgical ICU Admission
BMC
Surgery, November 2007

The
Role of Surgical Audit in Improving Patient Management; Nasal Haemorrhage: an
Audit Study Can epistaxis emergencies be handled at home
with simple packing?
BMC
Surgery, September 2007  

The
Value of Routine Histopathological Examination of Appendicectomy Specimens Should specimens from appendectomies always be sent to the lab?
BMC
Surgery, August 2007  

Diagnostic
Value of Blood Inflammatory Markers for Detection of Acute Appendicitis in
Children
BMC
Surgery, November 2006

Jigisha Patel  MRCP PhD
Medical Editor BMC series