''Academic Medicine'' is a monthly

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published by the

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History

The journal was established in 1926 as the ''Bulletin of the Association of American Medical Colleges''. It was renamed ''Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges'' in 1929. In 1951 it briefly became ''Medical Education'' then ''Journal of Medical Education''. In 1989 it obtained its current name. In 2015, the journal was ranked one of the top five medical education journals that received attention in social media sources, such as

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and

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. In the course of its history, the journal has had ten editors. Laura Weiss Roberts is the present

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, appointed in 2019.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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* Science Citation Index Expanded

References

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* Monthly journals English-language journals General medical journals Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States Publications established in 1926 {{medical-journal-stub