Editor's Notepad

Welcome!  As the 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: "How should academic medicine contribute to peace-building efforts around the world?"

By academic medicine, I mean medical schools and teaching hospitals, and all the individuals who work and learn in these institutions. Furthermore, while there have been, and continue to be, a number of efforts focused on humanitarian medical aid, the use of health initiatives to promote peace, and scholarly efforts to understand how medical interventions can contribute to peace, the 2009 Question of the Year targets specifically the role that academic medicine can and should play in peace-building.

See the January 2009 editorial in Academic Medicine for more information.

How to Submit a Response to the 2009 Question of the Year

1. If you haven't done so already, create an author account in the journal's Web-based manuscript submission system, Editorial Manager. If you already have an account, skip this step.

2. Once you have registered, use the Submit a New Manuscript link on your homepage to begin.

3. For Article Type, select "Response to the 2009 Question of the Year."

4. Then follow the prompts to complete your submission.