JPGM GOLD CON: 50 years of medical writing
International conference on medical writing, editing and publishing

The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, the official publication of the Staff Society of Seth G S Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital was started in the year 1955. In 2004, the journal had the distinction of completing 50 years of publication. During this time the journal has scaled unprecedented heights and today it is indexed with a number of internationally respected bibliographic databases. Moreover, the journal believes in an open access policy in an effort to ensure that medical research and publication is free from the shackles of restricted and paid access. This is indeed a unique achievement for a journal, which is published from a developing country.

The Golden Jubilee Conference was organized in September 2004 to commemorate fifty years of medical writing. The theme of this conference was Medical writing and publishing. This was probably be the first such event in a developing country discussing all the aspects of writing and publishing in biomedical science.

The conference souvenir with the detailed program, an extensive list of resources on the topics of writing, editing and publishing and report of the conference is available in PDF format. Click here to download this file (About 800 kb). Presentations of the speakers during the conference are also available from the link on the left.