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If a modern you are looking at this issue of AFP and think you are seeing things, you're right. AFP has undergone a transformation, and maybe you've flipped to this page to find revealed what's happening. AFP has reached flush "in design" with this issue. Readers who are curious about graphic design may be interested to know that AFP is now being present together with a different page layout program, called In Design, using a mode of address created by a local artist/graphic designer. yet it may be enough for you to know we've updated the pages of AFP with near design changes and some changes in editorial concept

undivided significant change you'll note is a reorganization of the table of contenteds listing for departments. Rather than being listed in numerical following the departments have been organized into categories that describe the sense of the content, and they have been listed in order of priority. You might now find your favorite departments through browsing through the following sections of the table of contents: "Keeping Up to Date," "Answering Clinical Questions," "Commentary," "Medicine and Society," and "Readers Services." Each category has a color-coded bar throughout it that will match the color bar onward the cover pages of the departments in that category. If you are looking for clinical updates, for instance, you can find Keeping Up to Date departments from skimming through pages with the matching downcast color bar. Or, if you know generally where the departments fall in the issue, you can go on foot straight there, because the order of the departments has not been changed.

If you are looking for "Clinical Briefs," however, you should know that they have been merg with the related department "Practice Guidelines," and you will no longer view the "Clinical Briefs" title listed in the table of eases The short news items will come next at the end of the longer reports. Along a similar line, "Cochrane for Clinicians" will now not away the traditional longer summary followed through shorter summaries so that more topics are included in each issue.

Other changes you will diocese include a redesigned cover and just discovered layouts for articles and departments that create a more standardized, updated apply the mind for the journal. Perhaps you'll notice that we'll no longer be distinguishing most numerous articles series with special banners, including "Practical Therapeutics," "Problem-Oriented Diagnosis," "Office Procedures" "Clinical Pharmacology," "Radiologic Decision-Making" and "Caring for usual Skin Problems." The journal will still have the same article contented and the same contributors, who will be acknowledged at the conclusion of each article, but without the series labels in the table of satisfactions and without the banners as a graphic element

The extremity product is the result of a six-month redesign proces by dint of a design team under the oversight of Robert L Edsall, who is editorial director at the American Academy of Family Physicians, and also editor-in-chief of AFP's sister publication, Family Practice Management. Christine Schneider, who assists as the art coordinator for FPM was rareed to conceive the new AFP design. In fact, you might eye in AFP some design constituents reminiscent of FPM, which Christine updated several years ago, and Annals of Family Medicine, which Christine designed before its launch in 2003

Christine Schneider is an artist who lives in Lawrence, Kan., and is an author and illustrator of children's works Some of her creative talents are thinked in the icons that now plant apart the cover pages of AFP's departments. For more samples of Christine's work, move to http://www.christineschneider.com.

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