For Immediate Release

Washington, D.C., June 28, 2001-The Association of American Medical Colleges announced today that, in the coming months, it will change the editorial leadership and direction of its peer-reviewed journal, Academic Medicine. In November, Michael Whitcomb, M.D., currently AAMC senior vice president for medical education, will be installed as the journal's editor-in-chief. Academic Medicine publishes scholarly articles that address issues relevant to the education, research and patient care missions of medical schools and teaching hospitals.

"The remarkable array of issues affecting the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals simply demand that we heighten our investment and commitment to the journal as a premier educational resource for the academic medicine community," said Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., AAMC president.

In his new role, Dr. Whitcomb will be challenged to build on the journal's strong foundation of success and integrity built by Addeane Caelleigh, who has served as editor of Academic Medicine since its first edition, published in January 1989. Under her stewardship, Ms. Caelleigh has engaged a widely respected complement of manuscript reviewers, assembled an editorial board of distinguished medical educators and recruited a highly skilled staff.

"Our goal is to enhance even further the journal's distinguished position as the publication of record for research in medical education," said Dr. Whitcomb. "Over time, I also hope anyone seeking to better understand the issues affecting medical schools and teaching hospitals-including the organization, management and financing of their missions-will find the most up-to-date scholarly perspectives and analyses in Academic Medicine."

Since joining the AAMC in 1995, Dr. Whitcomb is credited with invigorating association programs that support medical educators and the medical school curriculum. Previously, Dr. Whitcomb was an award-wining teacher, an active clinical investigator and a division director for pulmonary medicine at Ohio State University College of Medicine; the dean of the medical schools at University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Washington; the director of the Academic Medicine Ohio State University Center for Health Policy Studies; and most recently, the director of the graduate medical education division of the American Medical Association.

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