Abstract
The Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare (PoSH) was realised in 2010 as an amalgamation of the Singapore General Hospital Proceedings and the KK Hospital Review. The original objective of providing an educational platform to a fairly local readership resulted in content to help clinicians upgrade skills and maintain a broad interest in medical care.
Since the appointment of an external publisher in 2014, PoSH has embarked on its journey online, gradually phasing out printed copies, and will be fully electronic by 2020. We had maintained a quarterly output while encouraging submission of original research. To date, PoSH is fully open access and funded by SingHealth. Our publisher statistics have shown that downloads were in excess of 250,000 in 2018, with the USA, China and the United Kingdom as the top three visitor countries.
We have reexamined our original objectives of the publication, and are working to refocus PoSH to serve its readership better. It is no surprise that recent submissions to PoSH were extremely diverse, covering topics ranging from allied health, nursing and rural healthcare to health economics and social medicine. We continue to be inspired by other established journals of a similar nature publishing in the fields of medical professionalism, 1 ethics 2 and medical curriculum, 3 topics that are seldom encountered even with the explosion of clinically orientated journals seen today.
In many ways, PoSH has come full circle by realigning with its original objective of providing educational topics relevant to a broad audience. This will be achieved with an emphatic nod to the expanded range of subjects we will increasingly encounter in the current context. With this note, I will complete my six-year tenure as editor-in-chief. Please give your continued support to Siang Hui Lai, who has kindly agreed to my request to take up this role. Siang Hui has a keen interest in the academic aspects of education, and there cannot be a better choice of person to take PoSH and the team to 2020 and beyond.