Postgraduate Medical Journal is published on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and is dedicated to advancing the understanding of postgraduate medical education and training.

The aims of the journal are threefold. Firstly, to help doctors in training to acquire the necessary skills to enable them to deliver the highest possible standards of patient care. Secondly, to help the trainers to develop suitable training programmes for their trainees. Finally, once that training is completed, to allow these doctors to maintain high standards by a process of continuing medical education.

The Postgraduate Medical Journal is committed to ongoing medical education across the whole range of specialties. Clearly the requirements of clinicians vary within different settings and in different countries. It is this principle that underlies the future planning of the journal and guides the editorial board and reviewers in making their judgements on whether papers submitted to the Postgraduate Medical Journal should be accepted or rejected.

Our policy is to provide a broad mix of articles that will be of educational value to specialists and trainees, and to seek innovative and attractive ways in which to deliver a comprehensive programme of professional development. Our priorities are to:

1. Publish up-to-date guidance on clinical management.
2. Harness the latest technologies to promote access to a full range of educational resources.
3. Continue to develop specialist areas of publication that deal with legal, ethical, ethnic and historical issues that are relevant to clinical medicine.
4. Publish contentious issues that are of educational importance.
5. Ensure that a fair, independent peer review system is in place.
6. Adhere to the highest ethical standards concerning research conduct.

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1. Median time from submission to first decision = 4 weeks
   1. 60% of papers rejected without external peer review within 1 week
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months