About This Journal
Aims and Scope
The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) is an open-access, peer reviewed online educational journal presently published 4 times a year since October 2021. TAPS published one issue when it was first launched in June 2016 and increased to 3 issues per year from 2017 to December 2020. In 2021, TAPS published 4 issues. From 2022, TAPS will release a new issue in every January, April, July, October annually.
TAPS aims to address the needs of health professionals involved in the education of future practitioners. It provides a forum for communication amongst health professional educators across the disciplines. The journal’s areas of focus include: research in medical and health professional education, pedagogical innovations, educational leadership and management.
TAPS serves as a bridge to link our readers, researches and educators with different concepts being applied in different regions, the lessons learned and how well to adapt these best practices through cutting edge research. This open access journal aims to provide free resources in terms of research evidence and best practices in medical education to countries which have limited access to contemporary health education literature.
Open Access
The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) is an open access journal where there are no Article Processing Charges (APC) incurred for reading and publishing of materials with TAPS. Readers of TAPS are free to adapt and share the published materials for non-commercial purposes, provided that TAPS is duly accredited and cited.
Categories of Manuscripts
TAPS welcomes manuscripts under the following categories:
- Original Articles
- Review Articles
- Short Communications
- Letter to the Editor
- Personal View
- Global Perspectives
- Case Studies (At the Forefront)
- Commentaries
- Multimedia Articles
For templates of the categories, please refer to Instructions to Authors.
Revenue Sources
TAPS is funded through the Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. All issues published do not receive any special sponsorship or funding.
Advertising Policy
TAPS will have limited and unobtrusive advertising on the annual printed copy only. Advertisements will be restricted to conferences, courses and other educational activities and/or educational products and services. The Editor reserves the rights on any advertisements published.
Should you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Yvonne Chua / Mr Yeo Su Ping , Journal Co-ordinators, TAPS.
Copyright License and Permission
The Asia Pacific Scholar by Centre for Medical Education is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/taps/.
(ISSN 2424-9270 online; 2424-9335 print)
Announcements
- Fourth Thematic Issue: Call for Submissions
The Asia Pacific Scholar is now calling for submissions for its Fourth Thematic Publication on “Developing a Holistic Healthcare Practitioner for a Sustainable Future”!
The Guest Editors for this Thematic Issue are A/Prof Marcus Henning and Adj A/Prof Mabel Yap. For more information on paper submissions, check out here! - Best Reviewer Awards 2023
TAPS would like to express gratitude and thanks to an extraordinary group of reviewers who are awarded the Best Reviewer Awards for 2023.
Refer here for the list of recipients. - Most Accessed Article 2023
The Most Accessed Article of 2023 goes to Small, sustainable, steps to success as a scholar in Health Professions Education – Micro (macro and meta) matters.
Congratulations, A/Prof Goh Poh-Sun & Dr Elisabeth Schlegel! - Best Article Award 2023
The Best Article Award of 2023 goes to Increasing the value of Community-Based Education through Interprofessional Education.
Congratulations, Dr Tri Nur Kristina and co-authors! - Volume 9 Number 1 of TAPS is out now! Click on the Current Issue to view our digital edition.
- Best Reviewer Awards 2022
TAPS would like to express gratitude and thanks to an extraordinary group of reviewers who are awarded the Best Reviewer Awards for 2022.
Refer here for the list of recipients. - Most Accessed Article 2022
The Most Accessed Article of 2022 goes to An urgent need to teach complexity science to health science students.
Congratulations, Dr Bhuvan KC and Dr Ravi Shankar. - Best Article Award 2022
The Best Article Award of 2022 goes to From clinician to educator: A scoping review of professional identity and the influence of impostor phenomenon.
Congratulations, Ms Freeman and co-authors. - Volume 8 Number 3 of TAPS is out now! Click on the Current Issue to view our digital edition.
- Best Reviewer Awards 2021
TAPS would like to express gratitude and thanks to an extraordinary group of reviewers who are awarded the Best Reviewer Awards for 2021.
Refer here for the list of recipients. - Most Accessed Article 2021
The Most Accessed Article of 2021 goes to Professional identity formation-oriented mentoring technique as a method to improve self-regulated learning: A mixed-method study.
Congratulations, Assoc/Prof Matsuyama and co-authors. - Best Reviewer Awards 2020
TAPS would like to express gratitude and thanks to an extraordinary group of reviewers who are awarded the Best Reviewer Awards for 2020.
Refer here for the list of recipients. - Most Accessed Article 2020
The Most Accessed Article of 2020 goes to Inter-related issues that impact motivation in biomedical sciences graduate education. Congratulations, Dr Chen Zhi Xiong and co-authors.
