Prologue
This document comes out of the suggestions received from members of the Editors group of the “TMC Journal”, as well as from TMCAA members who did not join the Editor’s WhatsApp group at https://tinyurl.com/2hr8h5py

Accordingly, the suggestions received have transformed to recommendations in this proposal.

Consequently, Dr. V. V. R., the Chair of TMCAA will decide on all these recommendations after a meeting with those interested from among the Editors and TMCAA group members.

As progress is more important than perfection in this proposal the author expects corrections and comments to its online version at:
https://tmcjournal.blogspot.com/2022/07/journal-proposal-to-tmcaa.html

1. Definitions & Abbreviations:

Table 1 Lists the abbreviations and definitions as meant in this document.

Abbreviation	Full form or Definition
AFMC	Armed Forces Medical College
AIDS	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIIMS	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.
DOAJ	Directory of Open Access Journals
DOI	Digital Object Identifier
DPH	Directorate of Public Health
EB	Editorial Board
EBC	Editorial Board Convenor
EBM	Editorial Board Member
EE	Executive Editors
ISSN	International Standard Serial Number
JIPMER	Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
OJS	Open Journal System
NACP	National AIDS Control Policy
NEJM	The New England Journal of Medicine
PG	Post Graduate
PGIMER	Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
PR	Peer Reviewer
SEO	Search Engine Optimization
TBD	To Be Decided
TMC	Thanjavur Medical College
TMC Community	The target audience of the journal formed mainly by, but not restricted to, the undergraduates, postgraduates, and their teachers in TMC.
TMCAA	Thanjavur Medical College Alumni Association
TNJPHMR	Tamil Nadu Journal of Public Health and Medical Research
UG	Under Graduate
WHO	World Health Organization

2. Background:

“The enthusiasm of our alumni to start a journal we first saw in our TMCAA WhatsApp Group. I was happy to read them all. We then formed a special group to discuss the journal.”,

wrote Dr. V.V.R Chair of TMCAA, aptly describing the rationale and reasons for a separate journal for Thanjavur Medical College (TMC).

The Chair has since then followed up with a message to the Trust board that read as:

The Chairman informed the Board, that the Alumni members are keen to have a publishing unit – Magazine publication. Also, as our college is 60 years old, we have many eminent research workers and achievers in the various fields of medicine. Hence, it is good time that we have our own publication.

Publishing is an ocean in and of itself. So, we must decide whether to have bulletins, monthly reports, or other formats.

The Chairman was amazed by the large number of enquiries regarding publication. Accordingly, we immediately formed a separate WhatsApp group with three interested people Dr. Rafique, Dr. SMR, and Dr. Jeya Venkatesan, forming the first Editorial Board, and they will suggest all possible ways of bringing out one or more publications.

Also, there will be an independent Trust formed by them, the TMCAA Publications trust and maintained by them. Our main trust board will support them morally and will have TMCAA representatives and advisors, so that the functioning pattern of the ensuing publication trust is similar. However, beyond the creation of the trust, the running of the trust will be under the control of the Alumni publication.”

Also, other group members mentioned the need for an institutional Journal, for, by, and of, the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Teachers who form the majority of the TMC community. Moreover, there was no lack of unpublished data and clinical material they felt. Further, some members felt that such a monthly or bi-monthly publication must be of international quality and standard, which in turn would raise the credibility of both the institution and its personnel.

3. Scope:

Members opined that our journal must be more than just being a health magazine published by a few private hospitals. So, our Journal would be a Multispecialty journal based on contributions from various departments in TMC and its Alumni. In addition, there should be balance between world class manuscripts and the submission by our TMC Community. Thus, it would be up to the Editorial team to raise the class of the latter to that of the former. Thus, students and alumni members would learn the art of writing for publishing, and more importantly get rid of being shy of interpreting speechless data into expressive words.

4.Concept and Focus:

Suggestions were that the Journal must highlight the progressive and provocative ideas on health and related sciences from the TMC medical community. Accordingly, consistency in the content, policy, and the focus of the journal, settles it into a scientific niche for its close audience.

5. Mission Statement:

The TMC Journal will inform, guide, and educate readers who engage with their patients. Determined by high quality medical journalism, its service driven articles will record and echo TMC’s rise as an active institution of international repute.

6. Vision Statement for TMC Journal Website:

We want the TMC Journal Website to become a site that the TMC online community will visit daily to better engage with their patients. We want to be a local site with our own global content and message.

7. Project Rationale:

There is a need for teaching institutions to publish their experiences as they have the best resources. Accordingly, we cannot deny the quality of research guidance available in those who teach, or the overabundance of clinical material present, as well as the uptake of this content by the medical undergraduates and post graduates who very much would like to break the ice of publishing. Hence, it is this service that this project will deliver bringing much value and acumen to the students and the teachers alike.

8. Target group and Beneficiaries:
The audience focused or Target group and beneficiaries as mentioned would be the undergraduates, postgraduates, and their teachers in TMC. This does not restrict the publication to the local TMC community alone, but would have a potential by the high-quality of its articles to reach the wider global audience, as reflected in the vision statement.

9. Project Approach and Method:

Members justified the starting of the TMC journal as the most effective way to achieve the project’s twin purpose of publishing to the world, the wealth of clinical material in TMC, as well as educate it’s the students, teachers and alumni thereby. Accordingly, the near-dozen subsections under this project approach heading without being over ambitious, details the how or log frame of the method, when or the time frames, and how much the project would cost in the budget forecast, while the sources of funds are in the funding mechanisms.

9.1 Print and Online Editions:

Though Web, Internet, and Mobile Technology has grown rapidly and its users multiplied exponentially. Yet, print will never be dead. Accordingly, members agreed to integrate the online and print editions of the journal in such a way so that readers could benefit irrespective of their Internet access.

Moreover, the online version be it as a mobile app or as a web app should be an interactive one, providing media rich features such as search functions, interactive graphs, responsive images, as well as audio and video clips, all of which we cannot integrate in the print versions. Moreover, many of us know well that online versions have helped Medical Journals out perform their competitors, and stay in the game.

Also, as the TMCAA is having an online community for each batch of medical students that has passed through the college gates since 1960 till date, it is imperative that we publish our journal links to this largest group of TMC online members, through the respective batch representatives who would in turn post it to their batch WhatsApp groups. Another way, would be posting the edition’s links to e-mail lists of the TMC Alumni.

Furthermore, online publishing provides avenues for a second level of user-valued activities like feedback, comments, ratings, reviews, and discussions.

Therefore, in an attempt not to ignore either print or online, members agreed to adopt the valuable cross-platform integrated approach which had the highest audience delivery.

For Decision – launch version:
While the Editors recommend launching first with Online Edition as it is much quicker, and cheaper, the immutable record provided by a hard copy comes with its higher cost. Accordingly, Chair will decide on launching first with Online Edition alone or both Online and print versions.

9.2 Web App and Mobile App:

We need to build a separate website initially to host our TMC journal. For, though we have a TMCAA website, and a section of it can easily host the web publication app of our TMC Journal, a joint website would we woefully inadequate in credibility, security, and functionality. Of course, we have good talent in TMC Alumni itself to bring the publication website at par with Lancet website or NEJM website.

Also, website has the advantage of regulating who can see which content, and we can have paid content, as well as free content. Also, website gives different levels of access to different types of members.

For Decision – Name of TMC Journal:
The Editorial board has left the honour of christening our TMC Journal to the Chair, as this whole project was his brainchild.

Accordingly, we will have to buy a separate domain name, which would ideally be an abbreviation of the name of the TMC Journal. Next, we must find a web hosting company and then put all our TMC Journal content within this new web site. Accordingly, the popular web-creation platforms are wordpress.com, wix.com and weebly.com. Also, Open Journal Systems (OJS), support the set up and management of open access journals.

Therefore, for better credibility and professionality, members opted to have a separate website, the URL of which would reflect the name of the Journal, and give far better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) results.

9.3 The Editorial Board:

The Editorial Board (EB) would consist of a mix of big names like those who are experts in their domain as well as budding ones who can spare more time. Thus, many senior doctors would be in the editorial board of our TMC Journal. For, they can provide their inputs, decide which types of articles we will include, and those we won’t.

Table 2 shows designations and type of editors and peer reviewers in the editorial board

No.	Designation	No. of Posts	Type
1	Ex Officio Chairman	1	Part time
2	Editorial Board Convenor	1	Full time
3	Executive Editors	2 to 4	Full time or Part time
4	Editorial Board Members	15 to 20	Part time
5	Peer Reviewers of articles	5	Part time

We must involve editorial board members who can provide support, and so this board will be from a multi-skilled, multi-departmental team. Accordingly, we have TMC members with different areas of expertise and varying skills, including people who are familiar with media and publishing. We will also create other Job roles and assign them to interested alumni who can share their time and expertise. Consequently, the ads for upcoming jobs can be in WhatsApp publishing group or during periodical online meetings. We can invite about 16 -20 TMC alumni scholars from different specialities to be a part of the editorial board. Of this, at least 8 to 10 must be from abroad. Similarly, we will invite our 5 peer reviewers. Soon, we will write and circulate the Terms of Reference and general guidelines.

Table 3 is the Organogram of the Editorial Board with number of staff against the designations

9.4 Call for Content:

We can spread the word about our new TMC journal via social media, personal networks and by contacting other relevant university departments. We must choose the variety of content that we intend to publish, like review articles, case reports, original articles, and occasional medical musings. Our team must decide about other info like TMC news, alumni obituary notes, and conference reports. We must publicize the availability of journal in all alumni groups, TMC notice boards, all CMEs, conferences conducted in TMC. This will help in getting submissions.

9.5 Manage the submissions:

Open Journal Systems (OJS) provides free-to-use software. Alternatively, we can use an excel sheet to keep track of submissions. We must also decide on the details about article processing charges if any.
The articles will be only from TMC students and Alumni. We will let the alumni have unfair advantage of getting a slot to publish. However, invited articles from doctors from various institutions in India and abroad will be there in journal.

9.6 Edit and type-set articles and pictures:

We can us MS Word and Adobe Acrobat programs to provide a professional-looking finish to our articles. Graphs and diagrams can be by JPEG for print, and for web and mobile, there are separate graphing software as well. We must decide on the fonts or combination of free Google fonts that we use for heading, sub headings and other parts of a paper.

9.7 Apply for an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN):

Dr. S.M. Rajendran has come forward to take up the task of getting ISSN for our TMC journal. For, if we have Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for each publication it will benefit the authors as they get credibility. So, it is preferable to have DOI for our TMC Journal. DOIs are a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to permanently identify an article of document and link it to the web. We can use Zenodo for this purpose, as it is now open to all research efforts and offers its services free of charge for open access publishers.

9.8 Wider registrations:

We must register with Web of Science, PubMed and SCOPUS, IndMed, and PubMeD. Indexation is possible after two years. We can contact the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) only after our TMC journal has been around closer to five years! Meanwhile, we have WhatsApp groups, FB, Twitter and email lists for circulation of our Journal. Once our Journal is successful with good number of submissions and readership, then we must get a good publisher like Jaypee or Elsevier or others.

9.9 Finding peer-reviewers & Guest Editors:

Developing a competent reviewer database could be challenging including finding the peer-reviewers. Furthermore, we could approach academics who are working closely in the field of the article, and send them personal requests.

9.10 Terms of Reference for the Editorial board:

We must detail the tasks of the editorial board, so that readers see the TMC Journal as a genuine academic ground-roots initiative.

As a precursor, Dr. V.V.R, Chair of the TMCAA proposed a board committee for the TMC Journal of three members namely: Dr. S.M. Rajendran, Dr. Jaya Venkatesh, and Dr. E. Md. Rafique. This three-member board would discuss all ideas and Dr. Rafique as its convenor must present the detailed proposal to the Chair, who would call for a meeting where all the stakeholders would decide the final shape and outcome.

9.11 Frequency of publication:

Quarterly or bimonthly, for once set, we must maintain the same frequency.

For Decision – Quarterly or Bi-monthly:

The editorial board recommends to the Chair, a monthly publication, as to do justice to the amount of material available. Notwithstanding, the decision of the Chair would be final and binding.

9.12 The Collaborative Peer Review Process:

Outlined in the following picture is the Collaborative Peer Review Process followed in some of the Medical Institutions in India and abroad.

Table 4 shows the Collaborative Peer Review Process

A quick glimpse at collaborative peer review

For Decision – Collaborative Peer Review:

The editorial board recommends a similar collaborative peer review process for our TMC Journal.

10. Timeline:

The project would begin when a well-balanced editorial board drawn from the various clinical departments, and embellished by English language, IT, and Graphic experts, come together as a team. The convenor would present the project time line as a Gnatt chart on its approval by the Chairman, though presently the Chair in a bid to attain the highest level of quality has relaxed the timeline.

For Decision – Launch Date:

The editorial board recommends a six-month gestation period. However, as the Chair has best knowledge, skill, and experience of the overall circumstances conducive for launch, the editorial board will strive to launch the journal on the date chosen by the Chair.

11. Monitoring & Evaluation:

The project Chair would initiate an Evaluation at the end of every year of the project timeline. Accordingly, chosen Internal and External Guest Editors and experienced medical academicians would evaluate the performance of the project based on previously drawn-up indicators on project capacity, management, financials, as well as performance. Consequently, based on the results and feedback from this evaluation, the Chair with the board would decide the continuance, course correction, revamp, and future of the project. Separate indicators for routine monitoring of the project would ensure being on track.
As evaluation would be on completion of one year, the edit board has not earmarked any fund in the forecast budget which spans the first year only.

12. Sustainability and Scaling Up:

The project sustainability depends on it fulfilling its vision and mission objectives. For, if it fulfils its objectives, its readers would measure it as a success, which in turn would reflect in the feedback, comments and letters, online and off.
Members also mentioned the role of the Editorial board in conferences held by or in TMC, and how key papers and key note addresses can find its place in the Journal. Also, the project could host thematic conferences once experienced enough.
In addition, the project would produce tangential by-products like avenues for training in research related fields such as health informatics, health data science, as well as medical statistics, medical IT, and medical publishing.

13. Capacity building, Empowerment, and Advocacy:

Though not occupying a forefront place in the project, it is pertinent to note that building up the capacity of the project personnel would in turn raise the quality of the publishing, leading to not only empowerment of the editors, but also in them advocating health policies in the right direction to the authorities and the Government. Thus, those in the highest strata of power cannot ignore the evidence-based confident advocacy from our academics, which eventually will result in friendlier health policies.
As Empowerment and Advocacy are later activities than capacity building, only the latter shows up in the first year’s budget forecast.

14. Gender and Social Inclusion:

Both in its published materials, as well as in its day-to-day practice, the project would ensure addressing barriers to inclusion based on age, gender, disability, HIV and other relevant categories like caste, religion, or ethnic background. This will reflect in its publications as a strident call providing proven methods of medical actions that helped in mitigating the existing and increasing social exclusion, and or socio-economic marginalization with its attendant low social and economic development of the discriminated sections of Indian society.
This being more a policy, has no budget implications.

15. Innovation:

While the push would be more for progress than the wait for perfection, we would not leave a stone unturned in the search for innovation and the pursuit of quality. For quality raises the standard not only of the TMC Journal, but also the motivation levels, which in our field of writing and publishing, though medical is still creative, and so much based on inspiration.

16. Project Risks and Mitigation:

Risks and its mitigation could make or break any project. Accordingly, culled out in the following table are the most relevant ones based on the criteria of risk impact and the probability of risk occurrence.

No.	Explanation of the Risk	Potential Impact	Probability	Mitigation Measure
External:
1	Change in Government policies on Health or Publications	High	Low	Engage with Government officials at various levels, re-orient new officials with support of existing ones
2	District or State Authorities not permitting scale-up	Medium	Low	Develop strong Management Information Systems (MIS) to capture success data, and cultivate district and state level champions for advocacy
Internal:
3	Publishing statements that are negative in the eyes of the Government	High	Medium	Diligent screening and editing to give a positive spin while publishing data that shows gaps in government programs
4	Difficulty identifying, retaining good Full time or part time Editors, and Peer Reviewers	Medium	Medium	More incentives, better advertising, task-oriented, hands-on training, more shortlisting and having back-ups
5	Plagiarism	Medium	Low	Plagiarism software
6	Prey to predatory publishers	Low	Medium	Previously, we have communicated with these erring publishers, with some effect as a minority continue this activity.

17. Budget Section:

Table 6 is the budget forecast based on the TMC Journal Draft Proposal.

TMC Journal Budget Forecast
Implementation period (dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy)

17.1 Forecast Budget	First Term(dd/mm/yyyy-dd/mm/yyyy)
	Forecast
Expenditures	Unit	# Units	Unit rate (in INR)	Total Cost (in INR)
1. Human Resources
1.1 Salaries (gross amounts, local staff)
1.1.1 Technical: English & Medical Language Editor	Per month	12	50000	600000
1.1.2. Technical Graphic Designer	Per month	12	15000	180000
1.1.3 Administrative/ support staff	Per month			0
1.2 Salaries (gross amounts, visiting/int. staff)				0
1.3 Per diems for missions/travel
1.3.1 Local (staff assigned to TMC Journal)	Per diem	5	10000	50000
1.3.2 Local (Guest Editors on visits)	Per diem	5	5000	25000
1.3.3 Training TMC Journal staff	Per diem	20	3000	60000
Subtotal Human Resources				₹9,15,000
2. Publications
2.1 Printing TMC Journal & Courier	Per Journal	500	400	200000
2.2 Web Designing TMC Journal	Per Journal	6	25000	150000
2.3 Reviewing Articles	Per month	20	5000	100000
Subtotal Publications				₹4,50,000
3. Equipment and supplies
3.1 Purchase of Personal Computer or Laptop	One time	1	100000	100000
3.2 Internet Service Provider	Per month	12	1000	12000
3.3 Grammarly, Plagiarism, MailChimp & other software	Per Year	1	150000	150000
3.4 Maintenance for Personal Computer or Laptop	Per Year	1	5000	5000
3.5 Printer	One time	1	40000	40000
3.6 Printer Consumables	Per Year	1	20000	20000
3.7 Domain URL, Web Space & Hosting	First Year	1	15000	15000
Subtotal Equipment and supplies				₹3,42,000
4. Office costs
4.1 Office Rent (Nil as hosted in TMCAA Office)				0
4.2 Hard Furniture	One time	1	24000	24000
4.3 Journal Subscriptions	Per year	1	10000	10000
4.4 Other services (Tel/Internet)	Per month	12	3000	36000
Subtotal Office Costs				₹70,000
5. Other costs, services
5.1 Advertising TMC Journal in Print Media	Per year	4	8000	32000
5.2 Studies, research	Per year	1	20000	20000
5.3 Auditing costs	Per year	1	5000	5000
5.4 Evaluation costs	Per year			0
5.5 Translation, interpreters	Per year			0
5.6 Financial services (bank loan service costs etc.)	Per year	1	20000	20000
5.7 Costs of hosting conferences/seminars	Per year	1	50000	50000
5.8 Paid Ads in Fb, Google, and Social Media	Per year	24	2000	48000
Subtotal Other costs, services				₹1,75,000
6. Not Foreseen
6.1				0
6.2				0
Subtotal Not Foreseen				0
7. Subtotal direct eligible costs of the Project (1-6)				₹19,52,000
8. Provision for contingency reserve (maximum 5% of 7, subtotal of direct eligible costs of the Project)				97600
9. Total direct eligible costs of the Project (7+ 8)				₹20,49,600
10. Indirect costs (maximum 7% of 9, total direct eligible costs of the Project)				40992
11. Total eligible costs (9+10)				₹20,90,592
12. - Taxes
- Contributions in kind				41812
13. Total accepted costs of the Project (11+12)				₹21,32,404

17.2 Responsibility:
The Editorial board and its convenor alone are responsible for ensuring that the financial information provided in this budget is correct.

17.3 Other details of Forecast budget:
A forecast budget for the period with presumed frequency of publication, which will change when the team makes final decisions on publication media, and periodicity

18. Funding Mechanism:

Dr. V. V. R. has stated that he would look after the funding of the Journal.
Accordingly, once announced we will add here the details of when the fund tranches will be available, and how much funds as well.

For Decision – Sources of Funding:
The editorial board has no recommendations, as a mark of the trust and credibility the board places on our Chair.

19. CVs:

19.1 Dr. Essa Mohamed Rafique, Editorial Board Convenor.
Rafique a Dermatologist, worked in Tata Tea for 17 years, where he won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Leadership Development Award. Subsequently, Rafique moved to Delhi and joined the UN as the Moderator for the AIDS Community in India, building up an e-community of more than four thousand members to formulate the National AIDS Control Policy-Phase III. In 2012, Rafique built and managed his care home for senior citizens that surpassed the UK Care Home guidelines in infrastructure and service. Also, in 2012 he with his uncle founded the Kattoo-Yamani Family Charitable Trust (KYFCT), with over three hundred members, which he has been voluntarily serving as its founder-secretary till date. Presently, Rafique is a WHO Consultant after his retirement as the Cardio-Vascular Health Officer in WHO’s India Hypertension Control Initiative, for Wayanad and Kozhikode districts of Kerala in Dec 2022. In addition, Rafique is a voting member of The Constellation, and of the Grace Kennet Foundation, a student of SoloLearn having completed courses in twenty programming languages, as well as, in the final year of his Bachelors in Islamic Studies with the International Open University. His latest web page is at: https://kyft.club/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1btbquiz.html

Mobile & WhatsApp: +917558845528; Land line: +91 4935 242278

Life time office e-mail: rafique@the-constellation.org
Personal e-mail: emrafi@gmail.com & emrafi@yahoo.com

skype: emrafi
Websites: KY Family: http://kyft.club/
Author & Editor:

Islamic Essays: https://kyft.club/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Islamic-Essays.pdf
KY Stories: https://kyft.club/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Kattoo-Yamani-Stories.pdf
Profiles:

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-essa-rafique-96b64b15/

SoloLearn: https://www.sololearn.com/Profile/19469613

Stack Overflow: https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1013906/rafique
GitHub: https://github.com/iciso
Admin of many WhatsApp groups including: Islam & COVID https://tinyurl.com/ybnhl9c3 &
Interfaith Group: https://tinyurl.com/yy9exzty
Blogger List: https://www.blogger.com/profile/16421051685766047459

WP Personal site: https://emrafi.wordpress.com/
WP Blog: https://campion75.wordpress.com/
Slack: https://international-qtn7112.slack.com/
Telegram: htpps://t.me/zmerafi & htpps://t.me/islamophob

Fb: https://www.facebook.com/emrafi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmc7784
Ning: http://tmc1977.ning.com/
Messenger Meeting Room: https://msngr.com/jfsEnAiMiKz3mweA

19.2 Prof. Dr. S. M. Rajendran, Executive Editor:
MD., FRCP (Glassgow)., D.Litt., D.Sc (HC, SAARC), FIMSA.,

Education:

- M.B.B.S. & M.D.(Internal Medicine): Thanjavur Medical College

Academic Experience:

Prof. Of Internal Medicine and Diabetology –

• Govt. Stanley Medical and Hospital, Chennai, • Annamalai University, Chidambaram

• Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chennai

Asst. Prof of Internal Medicine -

• Thanjavur Medical College (25 years)

Administrative Experience:

- Registrar, Bharath University, Director, SRM University, Trichy Campus

Teaching Experience:

- More than 50 years of teaching experience in bachelor, master degree students and MRCP training, - Guide for Phd Students.

Journal Experience:

- Chief Editor, Journal of applied sciences, Bharath University, Chennai; Executive Editor, African Journal of Diabetes Medicine; Editor, Journal of neurological disorders; Editorial Board Member, Endocrinology and Endocrine System (Prime Publications)

Original Research Work:

• Study of inflammatory markers like IL 4 and 6, CRP levels in diabetes complicated people

and presented at ADA

• Study of Melatonin Hormone level in born blind people in relation to Type II Diabetes

Mellitus.

• Study of SFRP in Non-Diabetes people who are born to Diabetes parents and its role in

Diabetes.

Contact:

Address: 2A Anugraha Apartments, 18 Vaathiyar Thottam Main Road, Kodambakkam, Chennai –

600024

Mobile & Whatsapp: +91-9894118899, E-Mail ID: drshanmugamrajendran@gmail.com

19.3 Dr. Jeya Venkatesh, Executive Editor:

QUALIFICATIONS:

MRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England Jan 2018, DNB Orthopedics National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, June 2016, Diploma SICOT International Society of Orthopedics and traumatology (SICOT), Belgium Sep 2015, MS Orthopedics Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, April 2014

English Proficiency: IELTS Band 8 (L8.5, R8.5, W7, S7 - British Council, Nov 2016)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member (Associate) SICOT international, no.19683

• Member AO Trauma international, no. 801860

• Member of Royal College of Surgeons of England,

• Member of Tamil Nadu medical council, no. 90674

• Member of Indian Orthopaedic association no. 11403

• Member of Indian Arthroscopy Society (IAS), no. 2596

• Member of Tamil Nadu Arthroscopy Society,

• Member of ISKSAA, no. 1326

• Member of Tamilnadu Orthopaedic Association (TNOA).

CONTRIBUTION TO TEXTBOOK

1. Indications of Hip arthroscopy

2. Non-Congruent hip reduction- Role of Hip Arthroscopy

3. National Joint registries.

4. Management of stiff knee after TKA.

5. Pseudotumor of hip.

to the book “Gopalan's Evidence-Based Orthopaedic Principles - A Sicot India Initiative.” by Hitesh Gopalan; ISBN : 9789383124664; Publisher : Paras Medical Books Pvt Ltd.

REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS

1. Indian journal of orthopaedics (IJO), Pubmed Indexed

2. Cureus. Pubmed Indexed

3. Journal of Clinical and diagnostic research (JCDR),

Invited Judge for Orthopaedic Medal paper in Virtual Conference held by IMA-AMS 2021 (Indian Medical Association - Academy of Medical Specialities)

20. List of some Medical College Journals:

Table 7 lists some of the well-known Journals from Medical Colleges in India.

No.	Instiution	Link	Remarks
1	Chettinad Medical College	https://www.chcmj.ac.in/lhome.php
2	Stanley Medical College	https://www.facebook.com/stanleymedicaljournal	website is non-functional
3	DPH, Tamil Nadu	http://tnjphmr.com/about.php	Quarterly, also newsletters
4	Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University	http://ejournal-tnmgrmu.ac.in/index.php	Also, archives of Thesis
5	AFMC	https://afmc.nic.in/Departments/MJAFI/homepage.html
6	AIIMS, Delhi	https://nmji.in/	AIIMS Delhi owns this journal
7	KEM Medical College, Mumbai	https://www.jpgmonline.com/aboutus.asp
8	PGIMER, Chandigarh	https://www.jpmer.com/journalDetails/JPMER
9	JIPMER	https://www.ijamhrjournal.org/aboutus.asp
10	CMC, Vellore	https://www.cmijournal.org/mci.asp	Quarterly, PR journal

21. Feedback & Contact:

Dr. Mohamed E. Rafique,
WHO Consultant,
No. XIX/372, Kaniyaram,
Cananore Road,
Mananthavady P.O.,
Wayanad District, Pin: 670645
Kerala State.
Mobile & WhatsApp: +917558845528
e-mail: rafique@the-constellation.org
skype: emrafi

22. Decision List for Chair, TMCAA:

Table 8 lists the decisions that the Chair and the TMCAA Trust Board would take.

No.		Details of items for Decision by Chair
1	Launch version	While the Editors recommend launching first with Online Edition as it is much quicker, and cheaper, the immutable record provided by a hard copy comes with its higher cost. Accordingly, Chair will decide on launching first with Online Edition alone or both Online and print versions
2	Name of TMC Journal	The Editorial board has left the honour of christening our TMC Journal to the Chair, as this whole project was his brainchild.
3	Quarterly or Bi-monthly	The editorial board recommends to the Chair, a monthly publication, as to do justice to the amount of material available. Notwithstanding, the decision of the Chair would be final and binding.
4	Collaborative Peer Review:	The editorial board recommends a similar collaborative peer review process for our TMC Journal.
5	Launch Date:	The editorial board recommends a six-month gestation period. However, as the Chair has best knowledge, skill and experience of the overall circumstances conducive for launch, the editorial board will strive to launch the journal on the date chosen by the Chair.
6	Sources of Funding:	The editorial board has no recommendations, as a mark of the trust and credibility the board places on our Chair.

Epilogue:

It is a strenuous task to start a journal. It needs support from all Alumni members in terms of suggestions, involvement in reviewing, submission of articles and so on. We all know "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts". It is a team effort to bring glory to our alma mater.

Accordingly, do spend few minutes, sharing your inputs by filling out the form at

https://tinyurl.com/ydb9y2w6

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