From the Editor
Welcome to our Eleventh SMRJ Journal Issue!
We’d like to welcome you to the second issue of Volume 5 of your Spartan Medical Research Journal (SMRJ). As you can see in the Table of Contents, we continue to receive a broad range of project, clinical practice submissions from different clinical specialties! Our online peer-reviewed journal continues to provide an accessible formal publication venue for research, quality improvement and other papers 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 our readership continues to grow!
Since 2016, our SMRJ has now released published over 99 manuscripts across 11 issues! Our editorial office is proud to announce that we have officially been accepted for indexing in Pubmed Central (PMC)! This means that not only will all published articles going forward receive a PMC ID number (PMCID), in addition all past 90 + SMRJ articles will be retrospectively assigned a PMCID.
Remaining steps primarily include refinement of a “file transfer protocol” to formalize PMC deposits from each SMRJ issue and some remaining work with the Scholastica company that publishes our online SMRJ issues. The exact timeline on this remaining portion of the process is TBD.
Our editorial team continues to depend on the large number of expert reviewers to evaluate SMRJ submissions. We still need expert reviewers from many 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. 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, samw@msu.edu
Rachel Duckett
Student Editorial Assistant/Copy Editor