Welcome to the Annals of Family Medicine

The Annals of Family Medicine is a new peer-reviewed research journal to meet the needs of scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and the patients and communities they serve.

Mission
The Annals of Family Medicine is dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care. The Annals supports a learning community of those who generate and use information about health and generalist health care.

Editorial Focus
The Annals seeks to identify and address important questions in health and the provision of patient-centered, prioritized, high-quality health care. We welcome clinical, biomedical, social and health services research. The Annals publishes original research, methodology, and theory, as well as essays from reflective clinicians, patients, families, communities, and policymakers. We publish selected systematic reviews that build on current knowledge to advance new theory, methods, or research directions. The Annals seeks manuscripts that use and develop rigorous quantitative and/or qualitative methods, and manuscripts with application to practice, theory development, and policy. We encourage practice-based research and research that bridges disciplinary boundaries.

TRACK Discussion Forum
The Annals actively engages those affected by the research it publishes through online interactive discussions. These discussions, called TRACK (Topical Response to the Annals Community of Knowledge), offer all readers the opportunity to comment on articles published in the Annals. We welcome comments from authors, clinicians, patients, families, policy makers, researchers, and others. A regular editorial feature, On TRACK, synthesizes these discussions, in order to integrate diverse perspectives and different ways of knowing. Each article contains a link to TRACK.

Supplements
The Annals publishes a limited number of supplements. Supplements must be in keeping with the mission and focus of the Annals and must undergo the editorial and peer review process. We do not accept supplements that are funded by any organization that has a financial interest in the outcomes of the work reported.

Special Reports
The Annals publishes special reports of value to the communities it serves, including:

• Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
• Reports from sponsoring and other organizations
• Policy statements from sponsoring and other organizations

Special Reports undergo the editorial and peer review process before acceptance for publication.

Sponsoring Organizations
The Annals of Family Medicine is a collaborative effort of seven family medicine organizations:

• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)
• Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM)
• Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD)
• North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)
• College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)

The Annals publishes news and announcements from its sponsoring organizations.

Advertisements
The Annals welcomes classified advertisements. We do not accept other forms of advertising. For further information, see our Employment Opportunities page.