Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Current Issue
Volume 157, Number 4, December 2011
Also issued is an online Supplement - Managing Medical Support to Operations - see box below.
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Editorial: Military General Practice - the Future for Training and Education
Role 2 Afloat
The Clinical Outcome of UK Military Personnel Who Received a Massive Transfusion in Afghanistan During 2009
Management of Intestinal Injury in Deployed Military Hospitals
A Brief History of War Amputation
Use of Hearing Protection on Military Operations
General Practice - Reflection on Five Years of Multidisciplinary Training at Medical Centre Gutersloh
General Duties Medical Officer with the British Forces in Cyprus
Medical Contribution to the Comprehensive Approach
Don't Forget the Fragment! An Unusual Case of Occult Fragment Embolisation Following Penetrating Neck Injury
Endoscopic Evaluation of a Complex Ballistic Injury
Body Contouring Surgery for Military Personnel Following Massive Weight Loss
Proceedings of the DMS Medical Ethics Symposium
The Wars in Africa - Part 2
Book Reviews
Letters
A Pre-Hospital Technique for Controlling Haemorrhage from Traumatic Perineal and High Amputation Injuries
Cumulative Index for Vol. 157, 2011
Supplement 2 - Managing Medical Support to Operations
Forward to: Managing Medical Support to Operations - the Headquarters Regional Command (South) Experience
Managing Medical Support to Operations - the Headquarters Regional Command (South) Experience
The Context for Planning Military Health Services Support
Medical Planning and the Estimate
Casualty Estimation and Resource Planning
Forward Medical Evacuation
Tactical Aeromedical Evacuation
Deployed Hospital Care
Executing Military Medical Operations
Continuous Improvement in Healthcare Support to Operations
Medical Lessons from OPERATION MOSHTARAK Phase 2
International Military Medical Engagement with the Indigenous Health Sector - Afghan Security Forces Medical Services
International Military Medical Engagement with the Indigenous Civilian Health Sector
As another year draws to a close, I am happy to reflect on another successful period for our Journal. Submissions continue to increase in quality and number and our peer review process is becoming more streamlined, although I admit that we still have a way to go. The recent supplement on Difficult Decision Making in Trauma has been extremely well received and compliments those previous editions such as Wounds of Conflict I and II, Combat Casualty Care and Defence Anaesthesia which represent state-of-the-art reviews of practice at one of the worlds leading trauma centres.
I am delighted to announce that as of March 2011, the Journal has been accepted by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, which means that in due course they will calculate our Impact Factor. This will not appear until 2014, but the first steps have been taken and it is now beholden on everyone involved with the Journal to ensure that we make our Impact Factor as impressive as can be - the higher quality articles we publish the higher our score is likely to be.
As another first for the Journal, we will be hosting an ‘online only’ supplement, which presents a series of articles by Col Bricknell reflecting the experiences of the Medical Branch during UK leadership of the Regional Command Headquarters. This series of articles provides first hand exposure to the complexities of managing medical support to operations and should be read by clinicians and planners alike. An introduction to these articles follows below and the content list is included in this edition. The articles themselves are downloadable from the website free of charge.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to the journal and its success this year. This includes everyone who submitted an article, whether accepted and published or not, all those who have reviewed for us – and they are thanked separately at the end of the edition, and the Editorial Board who have provided expert support and guidance to the Assistant Editor and I. Finally, I wish to say thank you to Mrs Bev Amphlett who has worked extremely hard as the Editorial Assistant for the last two years, ensuring the administration of the Journal is on the straight and narrow after several years of less than perfect service. By the time this edition lands on your doorsteps, Bev will have retired and what the future holds in terms of her replacement is unclear as financial austerity measures bite hard; there may have to be significant changes to how we produce our journal.
Online supplement - Managing Medical Support to Operations
The Editor is pleased to announce that the December issue has an online (only) supplement addressing Managing Medical Support to Operations. The complete supplement and the individual articles can be downloaded here.
News
Web of Science: The Editor is pleased to announce that J R Army Med Corps has been accepted for indexing in Web of Science, the largest and most comprehensive citation index available. Web of Science lists over 12,000 top-tier international and regional journals, and reviews over 2,500 journals each year of which only 10-12% of the most influential are selected for inclusion. This is a major advance for the Journal and will lead in 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. I look forward to your help in the continuing efforts to improve the Journal to better serve the needs of its readers and welcome any suggestions (or critiscisms) that you may have.
New website: The Editor would be pleased to receive any comments you may have on the new website. Please direct technical queries or errors to Graham Cooper.
Latest PDFs uploaded: 157(2) June 2011 on 1 December 2011.
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.