Family Medicine Issues a Call for Papers—The New Model of Family Medicine

Family Medicine, the journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, requests submission of papers reporting on the “New Model of Family Medicine” described in the Future of Family Medicine report.¹ Papers submitted in response to this call for papers should describe implementation of one or more elements of the New Model in a community practice or academic setting or both. For example, papers could describe implementation of a personal medical home, patient-centered care, team care, or another underlying characteristic of the New Model. They could also describe development and evaluation of specific New Model elements, such as group visits, open/advanced access, quality assurance and safety, and/or electronic medical records. Finally, papers could describe innovations in residency education, reimbursement, the role of family medicine in academic health centers, improvement in quality of care, or other areas of experimentation recommended in the report.

Highest priority will be given to papers that report on all 3 of the following: (1) how the component of the New Model was adapted to your practice setting, (2) details of how the component was implemented, and (3) objectively measured outcomes that ensue as a result of implementing a component of the New Model.

Manuscripts should be submitted and prepared according to Family Medicine’s instructions for authors, which can be found at http://www.stfm.org/fmhub/instruct.html. Presubmission questions can be addressed to the editor, Barry D. Weiss, MD, at bdweiss{at}u.arizona.edu. There is no specific deadline for submission of these manuscripts, since papers on this topic will be considered on an ongoing basis. However, manuscripts submitted before the end of 2005 will be considered for publication together in a special series of articles.

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