• Ownership and management: The Journal of Development of Medical Sciences Education (HMED) belongs to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and is managed and published by the Center for Studies and Development of Medical Sciences Education and is under the scientific support of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.
• Authorship: HMED new experiences of curriculum development and evaluation, course design, e-learning, faculty development, management and leadership, teaching and learning issues, social accountability, assessment and evaluation in medical education, educational research methods and other topics. provides relevant
• The policy of sending articles in Farsi language: The authors send articles in Persian language.
•  Publication ethics: HMED journal adheres to the principles of the Committee on Ethics in Publication (COPE), which means that COPE charts and guidelines are provided to deal with any ethical misconduct. HMED also follows the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). These principles are considered for research along with specific national and international laws and will replace these. The national ethical codes provided by Iran's National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research can be found here.
• Conflict of Interest: HMED Journal requires authors to declare all competing interests in their work and to disclose their own interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. All submissions must include a "Conflict of Interest" section at the end of the article listing all potential interests (financial and non-financial). Interests to be considered and disclosed include, but are not limited to:

Employment: recent employment (during a research project), current or anticipated employment by any organization that may benefit or lose financially through the publication of this manuscript. This includes multiple dependencies (if any). 

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Financial Interests: Stocks and shares of companies that may gain or lose financially through the publication of this article. Consulting fees or other forms of remuneration from organizations that may be financially profitable or unprofitable. Patents or patent applications whose value may be affected by the publication of this article. 

Non-financial interests: In addition, authors are asked to disclose interests beyond financial interests that could lead to bias in the work submitted for publication, such as professional interests, personal relationships, or personal beliefs.

• Plagiarism detection: The manuscript should not contain the verbatim text of previously published articles or manuscripts submitted elsewhere. Therefore, we evaluate all submitted manuscripts, asking authors to rewrite the manuscript based on the plagiarism of the submitted manuscripts. COPE flowcharts and guidelines are used to address plagiarism. Plagiarism will be reported to the Research and Technology Vice-Chancellor of universities and related organizations through official correspondence.
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• Peer review policy: This journal has double-blind refereeing and its goal is to provide a fair and accurate critical review of all submitted articles. To submit an article, the author must register on the journal website (http://HMED.mums.ac.ir).
• Publication costs: This journal is published and supported by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Therefore, there are currently no submission, review and publishing fees for authors.
• Open Access Agreement: This journal is an open access journal. After submitting an article, authors are asked to agree to abide by the Creative Commons Open Access License (CC BY-NC 4.0). (Creative Commons license, this work is licensed) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
• Sources of income: HMED is fully supported by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and has no other source of income. 
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• Permissions: The author is responsible for maintaining all permissions even before submitting the manuscript to the journal, so please ensure the copyright status of the content you want to use in your article and identify the relevant copyright holders before submitting the manuscript. And determine if you can possibly get their permission.
• Complaint Policy: Our editors, staff and editor respond promptly to any complaint to the person's complete satisfaction. If the criticism is correct, while thanking the person, we try to improve our system.
• Data sharing and reproducibility: HMED encourages authors to share datasets (including raw or processed data files, software, code, models, algorithms, protocols and methods, tools including questionnaires or checklists) that represent the results shown in the final paper, enter them as supplementary material datasets.
• Journal archive: To ensure long-term digital preservation in an open archive, accessible to the public and free for all readers, all articles published on the HMED website are archived in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and preprint servers.