Scholarship drives the practice of medical education forward, affecting how you educate trainees, what you know about your colleagues and institutions, and how you identify and close gaps in your understanding of important topics. These calls for submissions from the AAMC aim to advance the work of all those engaged in improving academic medicine and bringing together the medical school and academic health system and teaching hospital community across campuses, disciplines, and missions.
This page includes information about current and recurring calls for submissions. It will be updated throughout the year with links to calls as they open. Information about submitting to the AAMC’s two peer-reviewed journals is also included.
- Active Calls Open Now
- Annual Calls Currently Closed
- Submit to the AAMC’s Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Become a Reviewer for the AAMC’s Journals and Other Calls
Active Calls Open Now
Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) Regional Spring Meetings
The GEA invites abstracts for interactive workshops, oral abstract presentations, and posters for its regional spring meetings. Abstract proposals may represent original research or innovations in medical education and can focus on any level (UME preclerkship or clerkship, GME, CME/CPD, or across the continuum). All proposals will undergo a peer review process. Students, residents, fellows, new investigators, and colleagues from backgrounds historically underrepresented in medicine are strongly encouraged to submit their work for consideration. While each region-CGEA, NEGEA, SGEA, and WGEA-will host its own distinct conference, a single submission site will collect proposals for all four regions. All submissions are due no later than September 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM HT.
Together We Lead: Unite, Reimagine, Align: The 2026 GSA-GDI-OSR Joint National Meeting
This joint national meeting of the Group on Student Affairs (GSA), GDI, and the Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) will take place April 16-18, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. These groups are committed to advancing and empowering learners, faculty, administrators, and professional staff through networking, leadership, and professional development to support transformation in medical education. This meeting provides a valuable opportunity for collaborative learning, leadership development, and community-building across institutions.
The GSA, GDI, and OSR invite you to submit session and poster abstracts that contribute to the conference’s mission of advancing learner support and institutional excellence. The Program Planning Committee will give the strongest consideration to collaborative submissions that embody the solutions-focused, cross-institutional approach of this joint meeting. All submissions are due no later than September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.
Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting
The AAMC invites proposals for Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting through two calls.
- The Call for Medical Education submissions consists of three types: (1) Sessions on Medical Education, (2) Research Abstracts, and (3) Innovation Abstracts. All submissions are due no later than December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.
- The Call for Research in Medical Education (RIME) Papers consists of two types: (1) Research Papers and (2) Review Papers. All submissions are due no later than December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Submission Guidelines
- The Submission Portal will open on October 20, 2025.
Work focused on a wide variety of themes incorporating a broad representation of topics, institutions, and presenters will be selected for presentation.
MedEdPORTAL Calls for Submissions
MedEdPORTAL invites authors to submit their work for publication consideration and inclusion on the following topics:
Annual Calls Currently Closed
Academic Medicine Call for Cover Art
Academic Medicine solicits submissions to its popular Cover Art feature. Artists may submit original works that are inspired by an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, and/or patient. The artwork must connect directly to one of the missions of academic medicine: research, education, clinical care in an academic setting, community collaboration, and/or leadership. High-resolution images of photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media are welcome and must be accompanied by an artist’s statement of 100 to 250 words. Accepted artwork will be published on the cover of the journal. This call is open annually in the fall; currently it is closed. Read more about the 2024 call for cover art.
Academic Medicine Call for Letters to the Editor from Trainees
Academic Medicine invites original submissions for its Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, fellows, and trainees in other health professions. For each call, the editorial team names a new theme for these submissions. This call is open every other year in the spring; currently it is closed. Read more about the 2025 call for letters to the editor from trainees.
Submit to the AAMC’s Peer-Reviewed Journals
Academic Medicine
Academic Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal that serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal’s areas of focus include education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
MedEdPORTAL
MedEDPORTAL is an online, MEDLINE-indexed, open access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the AAMC. Publications are stand-alone teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with medical or dental trainees or practitioners. Each submission is peer-reviewed using a standardized review instrument grounded in the tenets of educational scholarship. MedEdPORTAL operates under a highly unusual diamond open access model, which means that there are no fees to submit to, publish in, or read the journal. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Calls for submissions on specific topics are listed above.
Become a Reviewer for the AAMC’s Journals and Other Calls
Medical Education Conference Submissions
The AAMC seeks reviewers for submissions to its four GEA regional spring meetings. Reviewing is a great way to get involved with the GEA, learn more about what your peers are working on, contribute to the conference program, and improve your own abstract writing. The review period will begin in October this year. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please complete the form by September 24, 2025, at 11:59 PM HT.
The AAMC seeks reviewers for the medical education submissions to Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting. The anticipated review period will be December 3, 2025 to January 5, 2026. The number of reviews assigned will depend on the volume of submissions and the number of reviewers. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please complete the form by October 1, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT.
Academic Medicine
To become a reviewer for Academic Medicine, please email your inquiry and CV to academicmedicine@aamc.org. CVs will be vetted and if there is demonstrated alignment between the reviewer’s experience and expertise and the journal’s mission and focus, a reviewer account will be created. There is always a need for reviewers who are skilled in research methods (quantitative and/or qualitative) as well as literature review methods (systematic, narrative, scoping, etc.).
MedEdPORTAL
To become a reviewer for MedEdPORTAL, please email your inquiry and CV to mededportal@aamc.org. CVs will be vetted and if there is demonstrated alignment between the reviewer’s experience and expertise and the journal’s mission and focus, a reviewer account will be created.