Academic Medicine (journal)

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History

The journal was established in 1926 as the Bulletin of the Association of American Medical Colleges. It was renamed Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1929. In 1951 it briefly became Medical Education then Journal of Medical Education. In 1989 it obtained its current name. [2] In 2015, the journal was ranked one of the top five medical education journals that received attention in social media sources, such as Twitter and Facebook. [3]

In the course of its history, the journal has had ten editors. Laura Weiss Roberts is the present editor-in-chief, appointed in 2019. [2] [4]

Abstracting and indexing

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References

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  3. Maggio, LA; Meyer, HS; Artino, AR Jr (October 2017). "Beyond Citation Rates: A Real-Time Impact Analysis of Health Professions Education Research Using Altmetrics". Academic Medicine. 92 (10): 1449–1455. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001897 . PMID   28817430.
  4. "AAMC Names Next Editor-in-Chief of Academic Medicine". Association of American Medical Colleges. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  5. "Academic Medicine". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 8 October 2015.