The Swiss Medical Weekly is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by the SMW supporting association.

It was established in 1871 as the Correspondenz-Blatt für Schweizer Aerzte, then renamed to Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift, before obtaining its current title in 2001.

The editors-in-chief are Adriano Aguzzi and Gérard Waeber.

[1] In 1957 Roland Kuhn published an observational study on the effectiveness of Imipramine in treating Depression (mood).

[2] Other examples are the fundoplication described by Rudolf Nissen[3] in 1956 and the first description of a haemolytic-uraemic syndrome by Conrad Gasser in 1955.