About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Anales is the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Faculty of Medicine official publication aimed at difussion of education, research and matters related to medical practice, university teaching and Public Health improvement.

Peer Review Process

• Papers will be evaluated by anonymous peer reviewers selected by the Editor. Contributions by the Editorial Committee members will be qualified by other non-members professionals designated by the Editor. The process of peer-reviewing determines the text academic suitability requirements and the possibility of publication or the need of modifications before a new peerreviewing is done.

• Anales de la Facultad de Medicina claims the right to accept papers, to request modifications and to standardize the style of the manuscript.

Journal History

The aim of this paper is to show the development of the journal Annals of the Faculty of Medicine, the oldest Peruvian medical journal published nowadays. In order to accomplish this goal we reviewed the past volumes that are part of the invaluable collection of the San Fernando Faculty of Medicine Museum of Health Sciences. Its pages are witness of the development experienced during the past 80 years of biomedical science, as well as the development of Public Health, Medical Education, Medical Ethics, and History of Medicine, therefore the Peruvian Medical School. Since its re-launching in 1995, this journal reflects the professional quality of a number of generations of Peruvian physicians and is one of the most constant periodical journal and aims to take a place that used to have in the past, thus the best Peruvian journal.

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