MEDICAL JOURNAL University of Western Ontario Vol. 20
November, 1950
No.4
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN T is a great pleasure for me to congratulate the Medical Journal on the conclusion of twenty years of continuous publication, and to express the hope that it will be possible for it to continue publication for many years to come.
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The successful publication of a Medical Journal entirely under the control of the undergraduate body of the Medical School has many potentialities in an educational way to the students themselves, and also to its readers outside the School. The first essential, of course, is that the Journal should be on a sound financial basis and to accomplish this it would seem necessary for it to be of such quality that it would have appeal not only to the student but to the medical alumni, practitioners and graduates of other schools. It would seem to me that if a formula could be found to raise the paid subscription to the Journal that your financial problems would thereby be largely solved. To be of educational value to the student body there should be a considerable increase in the number of students taking part editorially in the work of the Journal. Otherwise, only a few are going to profit from the standpoint of learning how to write scientific or clinical articles for publication. While it is to be preferred that as much copy as possible be prepared by undergraduates, it occurs to me that a great deal of assistance might be had from the body of g raduate students at this School which now numbers something over sixty . The continuation of the policy of publishing as many as possible of the manuscripts prepared by the guest lecturers for the Dr. F. R. Eccles Memorial Medical Alumni Lectureships, the B. T. McGhie Memorial Lectureships, the John A. Macg regor Memorial Lectureships, etc., is to be commended. In order for your editorial staff to be assured of getting this material, there should be close liaison between them and those responsible for each of the L~ctureships so that the guest lecturers may have ample opportunity to prepare not just a lecture for delivery but a manuscript as well for purposes of publication. It would seem to me also good policy for the administrative staff of the Journal in their drive to increase the paid subscription list not to overlook the undergraduates and staff as well as the Alumni and practitioners within the fourteen counties, our University constituency. (Signed) DEAN J. B. COLLIP. 97