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Editor's Notepad
Welcome! As the new editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine, I will use this space to share information with our readers, to pose questions to our community, and to post solicitations for theme issues.
I hope you will find this Web site useful, and I look forward to hearing your ideas.
I plan to use each year's January editorial to challenge the academic medicine community with a broad-based, thought-provoking, discussion-generating question that will help chart the course for the journal over the ensuing year. It is in this spirit that I invite all of you who have a stake in academic medicine to help shape the future direction and focus of the journal by responding to the Question of the Year.
Steven L. Kanter, M.D.
Question of the Year: "What are the grand challenges in academic medicine today?"
A "grand challenge" has been defined for a variety of disciplines in different ways, but generally means the statement of a problem that is thought to be solvable within a foreseeable time period (e.g., a decade, a century, or something in between) through the application of significant increases in knowledge and /or major breakthroughs in technical capability.
For our purposes, grand challenges should stimulate thought across the full spectrum of academic medicine: from fundamental precepts to far-reaching policy, from organ systems to sociocultural systems, from understanding our past to shaping our future.
View List of Grand Challenges (PDF, 10 pages)
View List of Grand Challenges Contributors (PDF, 2 pages)
Contribute a Grand Challenge
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