January 2002 • Volume 8 • Number 1
Specialty to get new research journal
BY PAULA BINDER
A clinical research journal for family medicine will begin print and online publication in late 2002, the Academy and four other organizations an-nounced here Dec. 4.
AAFP President Warren Jones, M.D., of Ridgeland, Miss., said the need for such a journal has in-creased recently. The Journal of Family Practice has shifted from a focus on entirely original research to an emphasis on articles translating research into practice, he noted. That left a gap within the discipline, already constrained by the demise two years ago of AMA's Archives of Family Medicine, which was dedicated to original research.
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"As soon as people learned this journal was going to happen, I started to get e-mails asking how to submit."The new journal won't be just for family physicians, Jones said. "We expect that the Annals of Family Medicine will be acknowledged as the premier journal for those who are looking for better ways of delivering care."
In addition to the AAFP, these organizations are supporting the Annals of Family Medicine: the American Board of Family Practice, Association of Family Practice Residency Directors, North American Primary Care Research Group and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Representatives of all five groups participated in the press event announcing the journal during the interim meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
The new journal will "foster the knowledge base for the generalist health care disciplines" by publishing the best new primary care research, methodology, theory and commentary, said NAPCRG President Kurt Stange, M.D., Ph.D., of Cleveland.
"As soon as people learned this journal was going to happen, I started to get e-mails asking how to submit," said ABFP President Marjorie Bowman, M.D., of Philadelphia. She edited AMA's family medicine journal and is president of the Annals of Family Medicine Board of Directors.
AFPRD members are "extremely excited about the educational and publishing opportunities offered by the Annals of Family Medicine," said AFPRD's representative, Ted Epperly, M.D., of Boise. "America will be healthier because of this publication."
"We welcome this tool as an aid in our teaching and training of future family physicians, as well as a major resource for publication of our contributions to the discipline's research base," said STFM Past President Jonathan Rodnick, M.D., of San Francisco.
AAFP members will be able to request a free subscription to the Annals of Family Medicine when the first edition is published.
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