{"id":11716,"date":"2021-03-22T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:38:08","slug":"editorial-decolonising-the-medical-literature-we-are-not-just-a-low-resource-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11716","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Decolonising the medical literature: We are not just a low-resource setting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Adamson S Muula<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine and Africa Center of Excellence in Public Health and Herbal Medicine, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>medical, literature, publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was appointed the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Malawi Medical Journal (MMJ), a periodical of the Malawi College of Medicine (www.medcol.mw) and the Medical Association of Malawi (MAM) in February 2019. It is a daunting task certainly to be at the helm of such a prestigious medical journal indexed in\/by almost all the databases that matter in medical publishing. Our journal has published since the 1970s, first as the Medical Quarterly, and later as the Malawi Medical Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Journal Identifiers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/191286-Article-Text-485304-1-10-20191119.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adamson S Muula Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine and Africa Center of Excellence in Public Health and Herbal Medicine, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. Keywords:\u00a0medical, literature, publishing Abstract I was appointed the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Malawi Medical Journal (MMJ), a periodical of the Malawi College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}