AnnFamMed Announcements

1/18/2022 - Annals of Family Medicine seeking Associate Editor for Statistics

Associate Editor/Statistics: The Annals of Family Medicine is looking for an associate editor with specialization in Biostatistical Review. In this position, you will work with the Editor-in-Chief to evaluate original research articles for scientific rigor, applicability to clinical practice, and eventual journal publication. For examples of our articles, visit our Original Research Articles Collection. Click here for more info.

11/5/21 - Annals of Family Medicine seeks Associate Editor/Innovations and 2022 Editorial Fellow

Associate Editor/Innovations: The Annals of Family Medicine is looking for an associate editor with specialization in Innovations in Primary Care (IPC). As our IPC Editor, you will work with the Editor-in-Chief to evaluate original Innovations articles for scientific rigor, applicability to clinical practice, and eventual journal publication. For examples of our Innovations articles, visit our Innovations Collection. Click here for more info.

Editorial Fellow: The Fellowship is designed for an individual with relevant background who wishes to build skills and gain experience through active participation in the AnnFamMed editorial team. The Fellow will participate in manuscript decisions, strategic planning for the journal, editorial team conference calls, and the journal’s annual editorial advisory board meeting. Opportunities may be available to contribute to AnnFamMed features, such as guest editorials or the AnnFamMed Journal Club. Click here for more info.

10/27/21 - New Annals of Family Medicine webinar series features researchers who propose interventions to increase missed routine vaccinations 

Our first webinar features researchers who discuss recovering routine vaccination rates that have plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for adolescents 11-17.

The Annals of Family Medicine kicked off its inaugural webinar event in October with a research panel that discussed efforts to respond to declining routine vaccination rates across the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ava Skolnik, MPH; Alexandra Bhatti, JD, MPH; Anna Larson, MPH; and Rachel Mitrovich, D.Ph., MPH, presented findings from their research titled, “Silent Consequences of COVID-19: Why It’s Critical to Recover Routine Vaccination Rates Through Equitable Vaccine Policies and Practices,” published on the Annals website in August and featured in the print version of the November-December issue.

“Eleven million doses of childhood vaccines have been missed in 2020 in the United States and upwards of an 82% decline for adolescent vaccination in some localities in the United States, as compared to 2019,” said the paper’s lead author Ava Skolnik. “Declines in routine vaccination rates put our communities at risk. We must all work together to recover and improve routine vaccination coverage rates.”

Skolnik and her fellow panelists cited examples of routine vaccination campaigns, such as California’s #Don’tWaitVaccinate” and the Michigan Department of Public Health’s #MIHeroForHealth, which strives to help children and parents feel like ‘heroes for their health’ by getting vaccinated. Bhatti noted that according to the team’s projections, it could take up to three to seven years to recover missed routine vaccinations. Recovery is particularly urgent for the adolescent population, which has fallen behind in wellness visits. Their paper reported a 17% drop in vaccinations for adolescents 13-17 and 24% for adolescents 11-13.

While describing these numbers as “shocking,” the authors called attention to the fact that these statistics were derived from private insurance claims data – meaning that vulnerable and underserved populations without health insurance were unaccounted for. These groups, they noted, are falling even further behind on routine vaccinations. The researchers state that various strategies can be used to recover missed routine vaccinations. They recommended expanding access to routine vaccines with proposed solutions including increasing primary care office hours and administering vaccines through drive-through clinics or at gyms, schools and community centers. “It’s critically important that providers use every opportunity to educate patients and parents about vaccination as health care providers are the No. 1 trusted source of information around vaccines and vaccination,” Bhatti said. “To be successful … will require ingenuity and thinking creatively about how we can work together to recover what’s been missed.”

The authors recommended that primary care practitioners also partner with non-physician health professionals, such as pharmacists, nurse practitioners and medical assistants to help administer routine vaccinations.

View the 30-minute webinar, including a question-and-answer session.

 

10/5/21 - Live Event - Recovering Routine Vaccination Rates

In the United States, routine vaccination rates have plummeted across all age groups due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with our most vulnerable and under-served populations suffering the greatest declines. How are we to respond? Join us for a special conversation with authors from the recently published paper ‘Silent Consequences of COVID-19: Why It’s Critical to Recover Routine Vaccination Rates Through Equitable Vaccine Policies and Practices’ for a discussion on what to do from here. 

In an event designed for busy healthcare providers, the paper’s authors will give a quick overview of their findings and implications for family medicine practitioners – in 30 minutes or less. 


Speakers: 

  • Ava Skolnik, MPH, Senior Health Policy Associate, US Vaccine Public Policy at Merck
  • Alexandra Bhatti, JD, MPH
  • Anna Larson, MPH
  • Rachel Mitrovich, DrPH, MPH

Hosted by the Annals of Family Medicine, the event is free with registration: bit.ly/3ib5LtJ


For those who aren’t able to attend in real time, a recording will be made available after the event. 


Event contact:

Bettina Barillas, Scholarly Communications Lead

Annals of Family Medicine

barillas@umich.edu

8/6/21 - Review For Annals - Get CME Div. II Credit

Family doctors can get Division II Continuing Medical Education credit for reviewing for Annals of Family Medicine. Sign up as a peer reviewer for AnnFamMed here. After submitting your review, remember to log into MyABFM Portfolio to report your CME credits. (1 hr spent reviewing = 1 credit.) For more information go to The ABFM.org.

4/21/21 - Welcome New Associate Editors!

We are delighted to welcome José E. Rodríguez and Therese Zink to our team!

José E. Rodríguez, MD, FAAFP is the Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Utah and Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He also serves as Associate Medical Director at the Redwood Health Center. Dr Rodríguez has taken a strong role in advancing institutional goals for health equity, diversity, and inclusion. Within his department, he has served on the diversity committee as well as on various recruitment committees supporting focused recruitment of underrepresented ethnic and racial minority (URM) faculty and residents.

Therese Zink, MD, MPH, is a board-certified family physician with a Masters in Public Health. Her career spans 30 years and includes clinical care, teaching, research, and administration. She is a 2019-2020 recipient of a US Fulbright Scholar Award and is mentoring family medicine faculty in Palestine Qualitative Research. The research group is looking in Mental Health and Stress in COVID health care workers in Palestine. Currently she is a professor in Family Medicine and the School of Public Health at Brown University. In her free time, she writes; her COVID Chronicles: How Essential Workers Cope was just published.

1/22/21 - Upcoming Twitter Chat

Thursday, February 4th 7-8PM EST: How to Conduct Research During Med School
Perspectives from Annals of Family Medicine Authors Ariel Kiyomi Daoud, University of Colorado School of Medicine @ArielKiyomi; Ben Kaplan UNC School of Medicine 2021 M4  @Ben_J_Kaplan

Papers/Resources:

The Potential for Cloth Masks to Protect Health Care Clinicians From SARS-CoV-2: A Rapid Review

Access, Equity, and Neutral Space: Telehealth Beyond the Pandemic

Discussion Questions:

  1. Why do research in medical school?
  2. What experiences or skills were critical in your success as junior researchers?
  3. What makes a good mentor during medical school?
  4. How do you keep up with research in primary care and or in other fields?

11/25/2020 - ADFM Chairs and Research Program Directors Meeting

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 12:30 pm Pacific/ 2: 30 pm Central/ 3:30 pm Eastern: ADFM Chairs and Research Program Directors Meeting

Just after the NAPCRG Annual Conference, this meeting is a great opportunity for Chairs and Research Program Director dyads to join an informal discussion and collaborate across departments on current research topics. Please register in advance for this discussion to access the calendar invite AND PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR RESEARCH DIRECTOR: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMldeqsqDwqEtSf60aRTMtR8EglMaFlIQKI

11/9/2020 - Annals of Family Medicine seeks Associate Editor and Editorial Fellow

Associate Editor: The Annals of Family Medicine is looking to expand our pool of Associate Editors. As Associate Editor for the top-ranked primary care journal, you will work with the Editor-in-Chief to evaluate original research articles for scientific rigor, applicability to discipline, and eventual journal publication. Click here for more info.

Editorial Fellow: The Fellowship is designed for an individual with relevant background who wishes to build skills and gain experience through active participation in the Annals editorial team. The Fellow will participate in manuscript decisions, strategic planning for the journal, editorial team conference calls, and the journal’s annual Editorial Advisory Board meeting. Opportunities may be available to contribute to Annals features, such as guest editorials or the Annals Journal Club. Click here for more info.

11/20/2020 - AnnFamMed at NAPCRG 2020

Join Annals staffers and editors at our virtual NAPCRG table! From 11:30-1PM during the NAPCRG 2020 conference, visitors can learn how to:

  • Become a reviewer for Annals
  • Submit your research to Annals
  • Sign up for Annals’ e-Table of Contents
  • Follow @AnnFamMed on Twitter
  • Find Annals’ COVID-19 and Racism in Medicine collections
  • Apply for the Annals Editorial Fellowship
  • Apply for the Associate Editor opening
  • Enter a drawing to win a handmade mask

ZOOM DETAILS: Virtual table open Nov 20-24, 11:30am-1:00pm EST; https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/97576742232 Meeting ID: 975 7674 2232

10/15/2020: Systemic Racism & Health Disparities Collections

Preprint Collection: The year 2020 has been marked by historic protests across the United States and the globe sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many other Black people. The protests heightened awareness of racism as a public health crisis and triggered an antiracism movement. The editors of several North American family medicine publications have come together to address this call to action and share resources on racism across our readerships.

Bibliography: we have compiled a bibliography of scholarship generated by the family medicine community on the topic of racism in medicine. The collection can be accessed here

7/1/2020 - Annals ranked #1 Primary Care Journal in 2019

The Annals of Family Medicine is the #1 cited primary care research journal in the world, according to the 2020 Clarivate Journal Citation Reports, with a 5-year journal impact factor of 6.347. Formed in 2003 as a collaborative effort of seven family medicine organizations, the Annals publishes around 120 articles per year across six bimonthly issues.