Transformative Agreements

BMJ Case Reports is an online resource with a high volume of peer reviewed cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. For additional information on BMJ Case Reports please visit BMJ Case Reports - About.

BMJ Case Reports offers institutional fellowships where faculty, staff and students at these institutions do not have to pay individual fees. Please contact the library directly to receive the fellowship code.

BMJ Case Reports fellowship is only applicable to authors submitting to BMJ Case Reports, and not to other BMJ journals. 

BMJ Case Report will require four documents for submission. All must uploaded to ScholarOne. 

1. Case Report - please use the relevant Case Report Word document as a template
2. Figures - a separate Word document is required for all images
3. Patient Consent Form
4. Author Statement Form

To view more details regarding the publishing workflow and the case report templates, please visit BMJ Case Reports - For Authors.

All Rush healthcare professionals are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to BMJ Case Reports for consideration.

The BMJ Case Reports fellowship code can only be used to subsidize publication of case reports in BMJ Case Reports. You can submit almost all types of case reports that have educational value – novelty or rarity are not important. BMJ Case reports requires all submissions to contain two key elements. They must contain substantial novel learning value and they must be patient-centered.

BMJ Case Reports does not publish case reports that assess the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions. This includes case reports of patients enrolled in phase II trials.

For more details please refer to BMJ Case Reports - For Authors.

Please contact the Rush Library to request our institutional BMJ Case Reports Fellowship code. You can email us at library@rush.edu or you can fill out our Ask a Question Form.