The Scottish Medical Journal is a general medical journal

Medical journal

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, which publishes original research

Research

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 in all branches of medicine

Medicine

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, review article

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s, history of medicine

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 articles, and clinical memoranda. The current editor is Robert Carachi, a consultant

Consultant (medicine)

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 paediatric

Pediatrics

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 surgeon

Surgeon

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 at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.

History

The journal obtained its current form in 1956 after a 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

Learned society

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 and college

College

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Sponsors

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, is an institute of physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, Scotland.Founded by Peter Lowe after receiving a royal charter by James VI in 1599, as the Glasgow Faculty, this institution originally existed as a regulatory authority to ensure that...
  
  
• Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow
• Scottish Society for Rheumatology
• Scottish Renal Association
• Scottish Thoracic Society
• Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
  Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
  Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society is a society for medical practitioners in the North East of Scotland.-History:...
  
  
• Scottish Society of Physicians
• Scottish Intensive Care Society
• Scottish Cardiac Society
• Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine