About Medpharm

Medpharm Publications was founded in 1988 and now publishes 11 widely read academic journal titles, reaching 39 000 health care workers all over South Africa in print and even more online all over the world.

Passionate about medical and pharmaceutical publishing, South Africa and Africa, Medpharm believes that South African opinion leaders and researchers can make a significant regional contribution to international medical, pharmaceutical, nursing and dietetic literature.

The Medpharm journals are truly South African:

  • They are the official mouthpieces of various SA professional societies and national congresses
  • All the peer reviewed scholarly journals earn research subsidies for academic departments with the Department of Education
  • We publish peer reviewed, original research and reviews written by South African opinion  leaders and researchers
  • We publish national therapeutic and clinical guidelines

The titles can be divided into specialist and primary health care titles:

Specialists

  1. Transactions (Journal of The Colleges of Medicine of SA)
  2. SA Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia (SAJAA)
  3. Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of SA (JEMDSA)
  4. Wound Healing Southern Africa (WHSA)
  5. SA Journal of Gynaecological Oncology (SAJGO)
  6. SA Journal of Epidemiology and Infection (SAJEI)

Representing the following professional societies:

  1. Transactions: The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
  2. SAJAA: SA Society of Anaesthesiologists
  3. JEMDSA: Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of SA (SEMDSA), Diabetes Education Society of SA (DESSA), National Osteoporosis Foundation of SA (NOFSA), SA Society of Obesity and Metabolism (SASOM), Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society of SA (LASSA), Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrine and Diabetes Society of SA (PAEDS-SA)
  4. WHSA: Wound Healing Association of Southern Africa (WHASA)
  5. SAJGO: South African Society of Gynaecologic Oncology (SASGO)  
  6. SAJEI: Public Health Society of South Africa (PHASA) and the Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa (FIDSSA) including:
  •     Infectious Diseases Society of Southern Africa (IDSSA)
  •     Sexually Transmitted Diseases Society of Southern Africa (STDSSA)
  •     SA Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (SASPID)
  •     Infection Control Association of South Africa (ICASA)
  •     SA Society of Travel Medicine (SASTM)

Primary health care:

  1. SA Family Practice (SAFP)
  2. SA Pharmaceutical Journal (SAPJ)
  3. Professional Nursing Today (PNT)
  4. SA Journal of Clinical Nutrition (SAJCN)
  5. SA Pharmacist’s Assistant (SAPA)

Representing the following professional societies

  1. SAFP: SA Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care
  2. SAPJ: Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa (PSSA)
  3. PNT: Forum for Professional Nurse Leaders (FPNL), National Oncology Nurses Society of South Africa (NONSA), Society of Midwifery of South Africa (SOMSA), Society for Private Nursing Practitioners (SPNP)
  4. SAJCN: Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA), Nutrition Society of South Africa (NSSA), South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (SASPEN)
  5. SAPA: Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa (PSSA)

All the titles are available online and all the scholarly journals are open access.

Medpharm employs ten full time staff members including a receptionist, an operations manager, an accountant, a layout artist/copy editor, a graphic designer, four sales executives and a medical doctor.

Medpharm is fully BEE compliant.

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/10/2006 - 8:44am.