Ulster Medical Journal

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Production

The journal is published in January, May and September, by the Ulster Medical Society, and typeset and printed in the UK by Dorman and Sons Ltd, Belfast. Costs for institutional and personal subscriptions are shown on the Subscription page.

Editors

History

The first issue of the Ulster Medical Journal was published on 1 January 1932. The editorial board consisted of the following medical luminaries:

Initial Editorial Board

Professor W.W.D. Thomson, Professor Andrew Fullerton, Professor R. Johnstone and H.J. Ritchie

Initial Acting Editor

Richard H. Hunter

Indexing and citations

The full archive of the journal is available in PubMedCentral and the content is indexed in PubMed/Medline.

Current issues and archival material is also available through the Ulster Medical Society website, [www.ums.ac.uk/issue.html].

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References

References

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