Postgraduate Medicine

Postgraduate Medicine is a peer-reviewed general medicine journal published by Taylor & Francis that was founded in 1947 as the official journal of the Inter-State Post Graduate Medical Association of North America, aimed at primary care and internal medicine physicians, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.7（Postgraduate Medicine）是 Taylor & Francis 出版的同行评审综合医学期刊，1947 年创刊，为美国州际研究生医学会官方期刊，面向基层医疗与内科医师，2025 年影响因子为 2.7。

Scope

• Its mission is to provide relevant, useful and authoritative medical information to help physicians solve clinical problems and improve patient care其使命是提供切题、实用且权威的医学信息，帮助医师解决临床问题并改善患者照护。
• The journal acts as a peer-to-peer method of communicating the latest research to aid physicians when making treatment decisions该刊以同行对同行的方式传播最新研究，辅助医师做出治疗决策。
• It covers the clinical diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently occurring diseases in internal medicine and family practice, together with pharmacotherapy and new therapies覆盖内科与家庭医学常见病与多发病的临床诊疗，兼及药物治疗与新疗法。
• It features cross-specialty reviews of clinical advances and has a wide subscription base of physicians within internal medicine and family practice刊载跨专科的临床进展综述，在内科与家庭医学医师中拥有广泛的订阅基础。
• Health outcomes research is emphasised so that evidence reflects real-world practice and supports treatment decisions强调健康结局研究，使证据贴合真实世界实践并支撑治疗决策。
• Article types are original research, academic review articles, health outcomes articles and editorials文章类型为原创研究、学术综述、健康结局研究与社论。

History

• It was founded in 1947, with volume 1, number 1 appearing in January 1947, as the official journal of the Inter-State Post Graduate Medical Association of North America该刊 1947 年创刊，第一卷第一期于 1947 年一月出版，为美国州际研究生医学会官方期刊。^[1]
• The educational activities of that association date back to 1916, but the journal itself began in 1947 and the two dates should not be conflated该学会的教育活动可追溯至 1916 年，但期刊本身创刊于 1947 年，两者不可混为一谈。
• Charles W. Mayo, MD, a surgeon of the Mayo Clinic, was the founding editor and served from 1947 to 1968梅奥诊所外科医师 Charles W. Mayo 为创刊主编，任职 1947 至 1968 年。^[2]
• It has never changed its title, and its publisher passed from the New York Vendome Group to JTE Multimedia of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, then to Informa Healthcare of London and now to Taylor & Francis该刊刊名自创刊至今未变，出版方由纽约 Vendome Group 转至宾州 Berwyn 的 JTE Multimedia，再至伦敦 Informa Healthcare，现为 Taylor & Francis。
• Publication was suspended after volume 119, number 3, in 2006 and resumed with volume 120, number 1, in April 2008, and it moved to eight issues a year from 2014该刊于 2006 年出版第 119 卷第 3 期后停刊，2008 年四月以第 120 卷第 1 期复刊，并自 2014 年起改为每年八期。
• It is a hybrid open access journal in the Taylor & Francis Open Select programme rather than a fully open access title, and its 2025 impact factor is 2.7 with a five-year impact factor of 3.1 and a CiteScore of 5.3该刊为 Taylor & Francis Open Select 项目下的混合开放获取期刊，并非完全开放获取，2025 年影响因子为 2.7，五年影响因子 3.1，CiteScore 为 5.3。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Howard A. Miller, MD, professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, whose field is general internal medicine and who previously directed a residency training programme and served as a division chief现任主编为 Howard A. Miller，医学博士，费城德雷塞尔大学医学院医学教授，方向为普通内科，曾任住院医师培训项目主任与内科部门主管。
• The founding editor was Charles W. Mayo, MD, of Rochester, Minnesota, who served from 1947 to 1968创刊主编为明尼苏达州罗切斯特的 Charles W. Mayo，医学博士，任职 1947 至 1968 年。
• Richard Paluzzi, MD, of Drexel University College of Medicine is an associate editor and Madhavi Badola is the reviewer selection editor副编辑为德雷塞尔大学医学院的 Richard Paluzzi，医学博士，Madhavi Badola 任审稿人遴选编辑。
• The editorial board lists more than sixty members, mainly based in the United States and also drawn from the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and Puerto Rico编委会名单有六十余名成员，以美国为主，另有来自英国、意大利、加拿大、荷兰、新加坡与波多黎各者。
• Members come from institutions such as the Mayo Clinic, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brigham and UCLA编委多来自梅奥诊所、耶鲁、约翰斯·霍普金斯、哈佛、布里格姆与加州大学洛杉矶分校等机构。
• Submissions go through the publisher's ScholarOne Manuscripts system and peer review is rapid double-anonymised, with an accelerated publication service also available投稿经出版方的 ScholarOne Manuscripts 系统提交，同行评审为快速双盲，另有加速出版服务可选。