The Postgraduate Medical Journal was established by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...

 in 1925 . The Postgraduate Medical Journal continues to be the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...

. The PMJ is currently published on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...

 by the BMJ

BMJ

BMJ is a partially open-access peer-reviewed medical journal. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988. The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association...

 Publishing Group.

Aims

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine aims for the Postgraduate Medical Journal to support clinical trainees by a focus on core competencies expected of junior doctors and on additional clinical background important for examination candidates; to provide flexible educational and practical resources for teaching; to contribute to the continuing professional development of doctors of all grades and specialties by providing opportunities to publish and to learn from relevant, up-to-date editorials, reviews and original articles and correspondence on clinical matters.

Articles published

The journal aims to contribute to the Continuing Professional Development

Continuing Professional Development

Continuing professional development or Continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.-CPD research:...

 of all doctors by publishing papers on a wide range of topics relevant to the practicing clinician and teacher. Papers published in PMJ include those that describe relevance and impact of translational research on clinical practice (translational medicine

Translational medicine

Translational medicine is a medical practice based on interventional epidemiology. It is regarded by its proponents as a natural progression from Evidence-Based Medicine. It integrates research from the basic sciences, social sciences and political sciences with the aim of optimising patient care...

); that focus on core competency

Core competency

A core competency is a concept in management theory originally advocated by CK Prahalad, and Gary Hamel, two business book writers. In their view a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it, or its employees, works...

; that describe current practice and new developments in all branches of medicine; that provide background relevant to examinations; and papers on medical education

Medical education

Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....

and medical education research.
The PMJ supports CPD by providing the opportunity for doctors to publish many type of articles including original clinical research; reviews; quality improvement reports; editorials, and correspondence on clinical matters.

Frequency and circulation

The Postgraduate Medical Journal is published monthly. The Journal has an international circulation in print and electronic media . Articles in the Journal are indexed by all the major referencing institutions.