Sri Lanka Medical Association

[1][2] The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the Sri Lanka Medical Council.

[3] The proposal was formally agreed by the British Medical Association in April 1887.

[3] When the association was initially established it had a membership of sixty five doctors and within eleven years (1898) this had increased to 113.

[3][4] For the first 73 years the association's business was conducted at the Colonial Library, followed by another four years from the Consultants' Lounge of the Colombo General Hospital before it found its current permanent accommodation, "Wijerama House", when Dr E. M. Wijerama in 1964, gifted his residence, on McCarthy Road, for the use by the association.

The SLMA has the following Committees: The Annual International Congress has been held uninterrupted since it was first started in 1937 to mark the 50th anniversary of the association.