Scottish Medical Journal
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| Scottish Medical Journal | |
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| Discipline | Medicine |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviated title | Scott Med J |
| Publisher (country) | Hermiston Publications Ltd (Scotland) |
| Publication history | founded 1822 as Glasgow Medical Journal |
| Frequency | quarterly |
| Website | http://www.smj.org.uk |
| ISSN | 0036-9330 |
The Scottish Medical Journal is a general medical journal, which publishes original research in all branches of medicine, review articles, history of medicine articles and clinical memoranda. The current editor is Professor Robert Carachi, a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.
[edit] History
The journal was founded in 1956 by the merger of the Glasgow Medical Journal and the Edinburgh Medical Journal, which were themselves founded in 1822 and 1855 respectively. It is published by Hermiston Publications Ltd and is sponsored by a body of learned societies and colleges.
[edit] Sponsors
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow
- Scottish Society for Rheumatology
- Scottish Renal Association
- Scottish Thoracic Society
- Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
- Scottish Society of Physicians
- Scottish Intensive Care Society
- Scottish Cardiac Society
- Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine
