​​​For Trainees

Advancing Trainees as Leaders and Scholars

Health professions trainees—including students, residents, and fellows in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy—are a pillar of academic medicine. The Academic Medicine Advancing Trainees as Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative aims to engage health professions learners in the scholarly publishing process and feature their voices more regularly in Academic Medicine. By engaging trainees as readers and authors at Academic Medicine, we hope to help create the next generation of leaders and scholars. This page will serve as a central "hub" for connecting trainees with existing and emerging ATLAS resources.

Recognizing Trainee Authors

2022 Call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor: Honorable Mentions​
2021 Call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor: Honorable Mentions
2020 Call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor: Honorable Mentions​
2019 Call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor: Honorable Mentions​

Submit an Article

We welcome submissions from trainees! In addition to traditional research reports, we encourage trainees to consider submitting other publication types:

• Innovation reports (short reports of innovative pilot / early-stage initiatives)
• Perspectives (considered views about an issue in academic medicine)
• Teaching and Learning Moments (first-person, narrative essays)
• Medicine and the Arts (reflections on literary excerpts or artwork)
• Cover Art (original works of art)
• Letters to the Editor (responses to articles or standalone communications)

Full instructions for authors can be found here. Trainee-authored submissions undergo the same peer-review process as all other submissions.

Opportunities for Trainees

• Annual call for trainee-authored Letters to the Editor: https://bit.ly/3sziY2J.
• ​​Published letter from the 2020 call: Formatted and annotated as a model​​
  
• ​Stay tuned for more ATLAS-related opportunities!​​
  

Learn About Academic Medicine

• About the Journal
• History and Timeline
• Welcome from the Editor-in-Chief
• Videos
• About Academic Medicine
• Great Minds Read Alike: Why You Should Read Academic Medicine
• Academic Medicine Letter to the Editor Webinar
  
• Meet the Editorial Board
• What was your first publication?
• What experience has had the biggest impact on your career?
• Q&As with the Members of the Editorial Board

Read Trainee-Authored Publications 

Consider reading recently-published articles authored by trainees to understand the scope of work these learners are publishing in Academic Medicine.

Research and Publication Tutorials

Academic Medicine has developed several resources for medical education scholars which can serve as helpful guides for trainees.

• Conducting Research in Health Professions Education: From Idea to Publication
• Handbook for Academic Medicine Writing Workshop
• Scholarly Publishing Webinar Series
• Writing Effectively and Navigating the Publication Process: Advice from the Editors of Academic Medicine
• How to Write an Effective Title blog series
• What is substantive editing?
• Review Criteria for Research Manuscripts, Second Edition​
  

Stay Informed

• Email us to sign up to receive AM Express, a twice-a-month newsletter announcing newly-published articles
• Subscribe to the Academic Medicine Podcast
• Follow AM on Twitter @AcadMedJournal
• Follow AM on LinkedIn at Academic Medicine Journal ​
  

Ask a Question

Have questions about submitting trainee-authored work to Academic Medicine? Have suggestions for the ATLAS initiative? Please contact us at [email protected].