New Editors of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

The American Board of Family Practice announces the retirement of long-time Journal of the American Board of Family Practice (JABFP) editor, John Geyman, MD. We are grateful for Dr. Geyman’s stewardship in building the Journal and for leading it into its new electronic format. We also proudly announce the appointment of new editors. Editor-in-chief is Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA, Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. The new deputy editor is Victoria Neale, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Wayne State University.

The JABFP is now available in a fully electronic format with free access to all content. The new JABFP Web site at http://www.jabfp.org offers wonderful advantages over the print format, which is now available only to paid subscribers.

The electronic format of JABFP offers numerous benefits, including PDF reprints of articles published from 2001 to the present. Readers are especially encouraged to submit comments about new articles as Rapid Responses through the www.jabfp.org Web site. Rapid Responses will be linked to articles and posted on the Web site within days of submission. The Rapid Responses feature allows for postpublication peer review and comment by readers. This open-review process should benefit our larger community of practitioners and researchers.

Coming Soon! The JABFP will soon provide electronic manuscript submission. Electronic submission will reduce duplicating and mailing costs for authors and should increase the efficiency of the peer-review process. In the meantime, manuscripts should be mailed to Ms. Virginia Gessner, Senior Editorial Assistant, Dept. of Family Medicine, Box 354696, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4696.

RECRUITING PEER REVIEWERS

The JABFP is also seeking new peer reviewers. If you are willing to serve as a peer reviewer, please send an e-mail message that specifies your areas of expertise and interest to Ms. Virginia Gessner at virginia_gessner{at}fammed.washington.edu.

Peer reviewing provides the opportunity for researchers to sharpen their critical appraisal skills. Peer reviewers are expected to treat all manuscripts as confidential documents. If a reviewer receives a manuscript that poses a real or perceived conflict of interest, this should be declared to the editorial office.