Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Current Issue
Volume 158, Number 1, March 2012
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Editorial: Internal Fixation on Deployment: Never, Ever, Clever?
Ethical Dilemmas of Providing Medical Care to Captured Persons on Operations (and Commentary)
Casualty Rates Among Danish Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
The Influence of Perceptions and Beliefs of Civilian Physiotherapist Working for the Minsitry of Defence in their Management of Back Pain: An Exploratory Study using Mixed Methods
Multinational Medical Support to Operations: Challenges, Benefits and Recommendations for the Future
Anesthetic and Other Treatments of Shell Shock: World War 1 and Beyond
The Pattern of Paediatric Trauma on Operations
Anti-Malarial Chemoprophylaxis Following Evacuation from Afghanistan (and Commentary)
Effects of an Eight Week Military Training Program on Aerobic Indices and Psychomotor Function
Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsies Occurring During Military Training
Simple Posterior Elbow Dislocation and Brachial Artery Transection
Combined Services Plastic Surgery Society 2011
CBRN Response and the Future
The Short Life and Times of Assistant Surgeon Donald E White
Book Reviews
Letters
Unfortunately as the New Year dawned, the Journal's administrative set up was once again in disarray. There is no editorial assistant in the office and much of the post and emails to that address are not being attended to, through lack of personnel. I am doing my best to keep things ticking over, pending – hopefully – a new appointment as editorial assistant and I am grateful for your forbearance in bearing with me and accepting delays in article processing.
That having been said, the journal itself in terms of content is stronger than ever, the new website is up and running and has received many complimentary comments, and it receives approximately 500 links a month from PubMed. This is on the small (approximately 18 months worth) fraction of our catalogue that is linked between PubMed and website. In due course it is hoped that the whole back catalogue to 1966 will be fully linked in; this of course is on hold pending the arrival of administrative assistance.
Please continue to support your Journal by reading it, writing for it, commenting on it and telling your colleagues about it, as in that way we will be able to maximise our Impact Factor when it is generated two years hence.
Online supplement - Managing Medical Support to Operations
The December 2012 issue had an online (only) supplement addressing Managing Medical Support to Operations. The complete supplement and the individual articles can be downloaded here.
News
Latest PDFs uploaded: 157(3) September 2011 and the Supplement Major Military Trauma: Current Status and Difficult Decisions (uploaded 2 March 2012).
Web of Science: Please note that that J R Army Med Corps has been accepted for indexing in Web of Science, the largest and most comprehensive citation index available. This is a major advance for the Journal and will lead in 2-3 years time to the generation of an Impact Factor for the first time in the Journal's 108 year history.
It is essential that we all strive to make the Impact Factor as high as it can be; this can only be done by the continued submission of high-quality original articles, reviews and case studies from its readership.
Ethos
The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps aims to publish high quality original research, reviews and case reports, as well as other invited articles, which pertain to the practice of military medicine in its broadest sense.
It publishes material from all ranks, services and corps within the UK Defence Medical Services, both Regular and Reserve, and also welcomes submissions from civilian authors. It is intended not only to propagate current knowledge and expertise but also to act as an institutional memory for the practice of medicine within the military and as a vehicle for members of the DMS to publish their work.
On this website...
- Free download of PDF copies of all Journal articles published since 1966 (for recent issues, downloads are made available six months after the due publication date).
- Free download of PDF copies of all articles in Special Issues published separately to address important clinical issues relevant to military (and civilian) practice: Wounds of Conflict; Chemical Casualties; Biological Threats; Nuclear Incidents; Pre-Hospital Care; Hostile Environments; Combat Casualty Care; Armed Forces Mental Health; Wounds of Conflict II.
- View editions and supplements focussing on particular military medical issues; recent topics have been Major Military Trauma - Difficult Decisions, High Altitude Medicine and Challenges in Defence Anaesthesia.
- View key papers reviewing medical support to recent and historical British military campaigns.
- Search the site content, including text in all PDF articles from 1966 to date.
- Search volume indexes of the Journal from 1903 to 1965 (Journal content within this period can be purchased on a DVD).
- View Consensus Statements on aspects of medical management.
- Subscribe to the Journal.
- Undertake Self-Assessment Exercises.
- View Instructions to Authors and a sample title page.
- Contact the Editorial Assistant and the Editor of the Journal.