Family Medicine Journal

Family Medicine Journal

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Family Medicine Journal is the official journal for the 
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Online access 
is free and dates back to 1997.

Manuscripts published in Family Medicine fall into three general 
categories: (1) regular articles (2) letters to the editor, and (3) 
feature department articles. Family Medicine does not publish clinical 
review articles.

Regular Articles: Regular articles are scholarly manuscripts, essays, and 
commentary germane to the broad disciplines of family medicine and primary 
care. Regular articles published in the journal are considered under the 
general categories shown below (listed alphabetically).  This information 
is provided to guide authors in the types of manuscripts published; it is 
not necessary for the author to specify a category at the time of 
manuscript submission.

Clinical Research and Methods: This category includes manuscripts 
reporting clinical, epidemiologic, health policy, or health services 
research or describing new or important clinical interventions, patient 
education methods, treatments, etc.

Core Concepts in Family Medicine Education: Core Concepts articles are 
scholarly reviews of the fundamental methods and skills involved in family 
medicine education. These articles can review new or established 
educational methods.

Educational Research and Methods: Articles about the educational process 
in family medicine are a major focus of the journal. Such articles include 
scholarly reviews, reports of educational research, and papers describing 
the content and effectiveness of educational innovations pertinent to 
medical students, residents, fellows, academic physicians and scientists, 
or practicing physicians.

Essays and Commentary:  Short essays describing particularly vivid or 
unique personal or professional experiences are welcome. Essays should 
have relevance to medical practice or education. Commentaries focus on the 
state of family medicine practice and education.

Faculty Development: Articles in this category focus on strategies for 
career development of faculty. Priority is given to articles reporting 
research on the effectiveness of such strategies.

International Family Medicine: These articles focus on family medicine 
education and practice around the world. They include reports both from 
countries in which family medicine is well established and from those in 
which the specialty of family medicine is new or under development.

Medical Informatics: Articles in this category report on new informatics 
methodologies and technologies and on evaluations of the use and 
effectiveness of those methodologies and technologies.

Practice Management: These articles focus on medical practice management 
and administration, with an emphasis on teaching practices.

Research Series: Articles in the research series are scholarly reviews of 
research methodological techniques. Topics of such review may focus on 
issues of experimental design, data analysis, or other aspects of research 
methods.

ISSN: 0742-3225

Editor: Barry D Weiss  email: bdweiss@u.arizona.edu