From 1st February 2021 FoHPE is an Open Access journal. 

This means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

FoHPE publishes papers in a range of formats, all of which are peer-reviewed and each of which has different requirements, as outlined in the author guidelines:

• Original research, papers, reviews and reports
• Short reports or discussion papers
• Brief innovation reports
• Letters to the Editor
  
  

The criteria for publication referred to above are:

• the author guidelines have been followed (see author guidelines) 
• the manuscript falls within the scope of the Journal (theory, research or practice relevant to health professional educators)
• the quality of the writing is of a suitable standard (or could be made so)
• the research is embedded in the existing literature (although this must be in accordance with the limits in words, figures, tables and references of each format (see author guidelines) 
• the research makes a contribution to what is already known
• where relevant, the method, results and discussion are relevant and justified (or could be rendered so by revision)
• where relevant, ethical approval has been granted.

The following policy relates to any submitted articles that are eventually accepted for publication:

• If any of the authors are current financial members of ANZAHPE at the time of submission to acceptance for publication there will be no fee to publish.
• If no author is a financial member of ANZAHPE at the time of submission to acceptance for publication, a fee of AU$600 will be applied.

For information on applying for membership with ANZAHPE and associated benefits please follow this link.

All submissions must adhere to the FoHPE Author Guidelines when submitting to FoHPE.