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 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), Group on Student Affairs (GSA), Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) Regional Spring Meeting
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2025 GEA/GSA/OSR Joint Regional Conferences! Below, you will find links to both the submission guidelines and the conference submission websites. All submissions must adhere to the structure and format described in each session type submission guidelines.
All submissions are due October 10 at 11:59 pm local time.
Central Region
Targeting early-April 2025* in Detroit, MI
Submission Guidelines
Submission Website
Northeast Region
April 9-11, 2025 in New Brunswick, NJ
Submission Guidelines
Submission Website
Southern Region
April 28-30, 2025 in Miami, FL
Submission Guidelines
Submission Website
Western Region
May 2-5, 2025 in Portland, OR
Submission Guidelines
Submission Website
*Note: Regional conference dates will be confirmed shortly. Timeframes listed are intended to give an indicator of when in the month the conference is likely to occur in lieu of specific dates.
Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting
The AAMC invites proposals for Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting. The call for medical education submissions consists of three types: (1) Sessions on Medical Education Proposals, (2) Research Abstracts, and (3) Innovation Abstracts. Work focused on a wide variety of themes incorporating a broad representation of topics, institutions, and presenters is selected for presentation each year.
The Medical Education call for abstract submissions is now open!
Submission Guidelines
Submission Website
All abstract and paper submissions are due December 2 at 11:59 pm PT.
Research in Medical Education (RIME) Papers
The AAMC invites the community to submit Research in Medical Education (RIME) papers. RIME papers fall into two categories: Research Papers and Review Papers. Accepted papers will be presented at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC's Annual Meeting and published in Academic Medicine.
Submission Guidelines
RIME papers must be submitted using Academic Medicine's submission platform, Editorial Manager. The submission window will open on October 1, 2024, and close on December 2, 2024, 11:59pm PT.
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. Submissions must be received between September 3 at 9 am ET and September 30 at 5 pm ET.
Advancing Equity in Learning Collection
The AAMC invites submissions for inclusion in the new Advancing Equity in Learning Collection, timely and diverse materials that support an anti-racist, inclusive, and equity-centered learning environment. Successful submissions will include content aligned with the competency domains described in the AAMC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies Across the Learning Continuum. Resources will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the call will remain open until the collection addresses all of the competency domains.
Read the submission instructions
MedEdPORTAL Calls for Submissions
MedEdPORTAL invites authors to submit their work for publication consideration and inclusion in the following collections:
- Anti-racism Education
- Climate Change and Health Education
- Community Engagement for Health Equity Education
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Integrated Behavioral Health Education
- Interprofessional Education
- Language-Appropriate Health Care and Medical Language Education
- Opioids, Addiction, and Pain Education
- Telehealth Education
Annual Calls Currently Closed
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. Each year the editorial team names a new theme for these submissions. This call is open annually for one week in the spring; currently it is closed. Read more about the 2023 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 in partnership with the American Dental Education Association. 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 Educational Affairs Team solicits reviewers for submissions to the following conferences: (1) GEA Regional Spring Meetings and (2) Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting. All medical education submissions to these conferences undergo a peer review process. This call is open annually in the fall; currently it is closed.
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. There is always a need for reviewers who are skilled in curricular design and evaluation and/or who have expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion.