Health Professions Education and Research has been launched in March 2023

Health Professions Education and Research is a peer-reviewed and open-access online journal. The journal is one of the most fundamental concepts, not only covers all kinds of medical education but also throughout the whole range of education of medical students, residents, physicians, nurses and any other kinds of healthcare workers. In the third medical education reform, there is a calling of interdisciplinary integration and collaboration in the current clinical progress. The purpose of Health Professions Education and Research (HPER) is promoting the communication and collaboration of healthcare related practitioners, teaching staff, management personnel, related technicians, and graduate students, promoting the development of China and the international health professions education, providing a research result for the majority of healthcare workers.

Hamid Doost Mohammadian, the Editor-in-Chief, wrote the Inaugural Editorial of Health Professions Education and Research. The topic of this article is “A new communication plat for health profession education through the 5^th wave theory”. The editorial board was composed of young experts from the frontline of health professions education from China, Germany, the United States, South Africa and Europe. They drive the development of health professions education in the global region for the upcoming decades.

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