  We introduce a new massive renormalization scheme, denoted mSMOM, as a
modification of the existing RI/SMOM scheme. We use SMOM for defining
renormalized fermion bilinears in QCD at non-vanishing fermion mass. This
scheme has properties similar to those of the SMOM scheme, such as the use of
non-exceptional symmetric momenta, while in contrast to SMOM, it defines the
renormalized fields away from the chiral limit. Here we discuss some of the
properties of mSMOM, and present non-perturbative arguments for deriving some
renormalization constants. The results of a 1-loop calculation in dimensional
regularization are briefly summarised to illustrate some properties of the
scheme.
