About the Journal

The Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad (JFMB) is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal published four issues annually by the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad.

The Journal provides an Open Journal System powered by PKP as a communication platform for researchers, physicians, and medical workers in different aspects of medicine and medical basic sciences all over the world. The Journal accepts original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, and Editorial in all fields relevant to medicine. The Journal is open access for both researchers and readers.

The history of this journal and its place among the medical scientific journals in the countries of the region has given us proudly big motivation while doing our best efforts to deliver it in the best suit.

Historically, this journal is the 1^st medical journal in the Middle East; it was first published in 1936 and continued so far despite some poses for compelling reasons.

The founders of the journal whether Iraqis or other nationalities who contributed to managing this journal and publishing it, have chronicled the periods of development of medicine in Iraq taking into consideration that the research which was published in it was receiving global Echo as it was a rich source for foreigner researchers and many of their articles and dissertation, on researchers published in this journal.

Despite all the diverse moral and financial difficulties that face this journal, we are happy to renovate the covenant to go forward in the completion of the message and to continue whatever the obstacles are.

Recently an important achievement has been established, that is issuing the electronic journal, and this makes the journal readable and legible worldwide, raising its importance and significance even much more, which made the editorial Board keener to publish the research in the best configuration, diminishing errors and apply solid scientific standards.