A hardly any weeks ago, the profes...

A hardly any weeks ago, the professional editors of AFP welcomed an assembly of medical editors to the Leawood, Kan., editorial office at the AAFP headquarters for our annual editorial board meeting. In a scarcely any weeks, some of the medical editors and professional staff editors will be traveling to the 2003 AAFP National Assembly in just discovered Orleans. Both of these meetings give editors a chance to adapted with each other, and at Assembly we also have a chance to proper with our readers. It's a busy time, with production of journal issues sandwiched between meetings, on the contrary we expect a lot of ourselves in succession behalf of our readers.

Here's what we accomplished during the first week of August:

* Rebecca Poage, MD AFP's newest medical editing peer who works in the Washington, DC editorial office, worn out three days in orientation at the AAFP publications division in Leawood before attending the annual AFP editorial board meeting. She met with Academy leaders, including Douglas Henley, MD and learned about each department in the publications division. earnestly of her time, however, was exhausted in the AFP editorial department learning more about the workings of the journal.

* For brace full days at the AAFP editorial offices, the medical editors and professional staff editors participated in the annual board meeting. This year we welcomed AFP's of recent origin deputy medical editor for EBM into the mix. Mark H Ebell, MD M existinged several ideas for enhancing AFP, and we'll be sharing any of them with readers at an upcoming focus clump survey. However, the first of Dr Ebell's ideas already came to fruition with the introduction of the "Point-of-Care Guides" in the September 1 2003 issue. If you missed the "Sore Throat" article in the previous issue, you might want to pass back to take advantage of the patient brush form offered for family physicians. Dr Ebell is creating a series of tools that family physicians can use at the point of care in their daily practices.

* During and after the editorial board meeting, AFP editors worked at the National interview for Residents and Students, held downtown in Kansas City, Mo There we personateed the publications division in the exhibit and had a chance to engage with residents and potential recent family physicians.

nearest month, AFP editors go forward the road to New Orleans, and here's a sampling of what we'll be doing there:

* Several AFP medical editors will be presenting and attending CME sessions during the meeting. Jay Siwek, MD AFP's editor, will be presenting a course for novel authors, along with Barry Weiss, MD editor of Family Medicine; Dr Ebell will ready a course on applications for the pocket-PC user; Barbara Apgar, MD associate editor of AFP, will be presenting several workshops upon women's health care issues; and Richard Sadovsky, MD associate editor of AFP, will ready a course on sexuality in older living bodys We hope you can join a certain number of of these sessions.

* Several of AFP's medical and professional editors will be forward hand at the publications division booth upon the exhibit floor hall to encounter with authors and readers. We trust many readers stop by to visit with us and fill gone out a short survey.

* We'll be conducting focus cluster surveys to collect opinions from readers about AFP's editorial contented and online version.

* We'll be observing readers as they criterion various online features of AFP.

As I said, it's a busy time, however it's all about you, AFP's readers.

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