From the Editor
Welcome to our Tenth SMRJ Journal Issue!
We’d like to welcome you to the first issue of Volume 5 of The Spartan Medical Research Journal (SMRJ). As you can see in the Table of Contents, we continue to receive a broad range of submissions from different clinical specialties! Our online peer-reviewed journal continues to provide an accessible formal publication venue for research & quality improvement papers and case reports from Michigan State University COM students, residents, fellows and faculty and associates. We continue to receive submissions from both Statewide Campus System (SCS) affiliates and non-affiliated authors from other parts of the country as readership continues to grow!
Since 2016, our SMRJ has now released published 90 manuscripts in 10 issues! Our editorial office continues to hear positive updates concerning our 2019 application for PubMed article number registration. We appreciate everyone’s patience and promise to keep all SMRJ authors and readers apprised of this process!
Our editorial team continues to depend on the large number of expert reviewers to evaluate SMRJ submissions. We still need expert reviewers from all medical specialty areas to be members of our Editorial Board. If you have an interest in participating as a SMRJ reviewer, please contact Chief Editor Bill Corser.
If you have comments or suggestions, please contact any of our editorial team members. Please remember that we also accept Letter to the Editor submissions.
We hope that you enjoy this issue!
Sincerely, Bill Corser, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Editor
corser@msu.edu; (517) 918-3470
Sam Wisniewski, MS
Assistant Editor
Rachel Duckett
Student Editorial Assistant/Copy Editor