Perspectives On Medical Education is positioned at the dynamic intersection of educational research and clinical education. While other journals in the field of health professional education are primarily aimed at educational researchers or clinical educators, the journal positions itself as a collaborative interface between these perspectives. This unique positioning reflects the journal's mission to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between educational researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge about clinical educational practice.

Reflecting this mission, the journal welcomes both original research papers published by academic collaborations between clinicians, faculty, and researchers, as well as papers that provide resources for developing the capacity of the community to conduct such collaborative research. The journal's readership includes researchers and practitioners: researchers who want to explore challenging issues in health professional education and clinical teachers who want to advance practice and envision themselves playing a collaborative role in innovation in academic education. These researchers, clinicians and educators are international and interdisciplinary.