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
Learn Serve Lead 2027: The AAMC Annual Meeting Call for Medical Education Submissions
The AAMC is accepting submissions for Learn Serve Lead 2027: The AAMC Annual Meeting. Learn Serve Lead is open to all those engaged in advancing academic medicine and brings together the medical school and teaching hospital community from across campuses, disciplines, and missions. The call for medical education submissions consists of three types: (1) Sessions on Medical Education; (2) Medical Education Innovation Abstracts; and (3) Medical Education Research Abstracts. Review the submission guidelines and submit your proposal in the submission portal no later than December 7, 2026 at 11:59pm PT.
MedEdPORTAL Calls for Submissions
MedEdPORTAL invites authors to submit their work for publication consideration and inclusion on the following topics:
Annual Calls Currently Closed
AAMC Medical Education Innovation Conference
The AAMC seeks submissions for the Medical Education Innovation Conference, the annual meeting of the Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, Research, and Evaluation Group. Presentation types include Workshop, Panel, Oral Presentation, Poster, and Fail Forward Abstract. This call is open every year in the summer; currently it is 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. 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.
Academic Medicine Call for Cover Art
Academic Medicine solicits submissions to its popular Cover Art feature. The journal welcomes original creative works of painting, photography, sculpture, textile work, and other visual media. Priority will be given to those creative works that communicate a theme or message of importance to the field of academic medicine and that will display well visually online. The journal will consider only original creative work by a single artist. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel with expertise in art and medicine. Accepted Cover Art will be published online in Academic Medicine. This call is open every other year in the spring; currently it is closed. Read more about the 2026 call.
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
Learn Serve Lead 2027: The AAMC Annual Meeting Call for Medical Education Submissions
The AAMC is seeking volunteer abstract reviewers for this call for submissions. This opportunity is open to reviewers at all levels of experience. The anticipated review period will be December 10, 2026 - January 7, 2027. Reviewers are asked to provide constructive feedback to submitters and to complete their reviews by the review deadline. Complete the survey by October 26, 2026, at 11:59pm PT, to indicate your interest in serving as a reviewer.
AAMC Medical Education Innovation Conference
The AAMC seeks volunteer abstract reviewers for the Medical Education Innovation Conference, the annual meeting of the Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, Research, and Evaluation Group. This call is open every year in the summer; 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.