Most of CMAJ's editorial board quits

The majority of members on the Canadian Medical Association Journal's editorial board resigned Thursday to protest the firing of senior editorial staff a month earlier.

The 95-year-old journal and its owner, the Canadian Medical Association, have been embroiled in controversy since the February dismissals of Dr. John Hoey, who was the CMAJ's editor, and Anne Marie Todkill, who was senior deputy editor.

The dispute has revolved around issues of editorial independence between the journal and the association, which represents doctors in Canada.
Editorial autonomy at the CMAJ is at the centre of the dispute.

"The primary reason for our resignation is our loss of trust in the CMA leadership in relation to the CMAJ," 14 of 19 board members wrote in their resignation letter to the association's president, Dr. Ruth Collins-Nikai.

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Previously:
February 23, 2006  CMA Journal editor fired