Title:Industry-leading journal celebrates 75 years

Founded in 1950 and affiliated with Georgetown the following year, American Family Physician is a monthly evidence-based, peer-reviewed medical journal edited by some of Georgetown’s family medicine faculty. Like the field itself, topics run the gamut, including a recent issue with articles on outpatient care for the premature infant, hyperthyroidism diagnosis and treatment, and nonopioid pharmacologic management of chronic non-cancer pain.

Published monthly, the journal is available in print and online and in addition to supporting robust medical education and scholarship, offers fun features like photo quizzes and medicine by the numbers, in addition to a podcast as well as important health policy briefs. The journal is committed to putting patients first, with a conflict-of-interest policy that prevents authors from having ties to pharmaceutical or other companies that might benefit from the content.

Family physician and Editor-in-Chief Sumi Sexton is associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown, and the previous editor, Jay Siwek (C’71, M’76), vice-chair of the department of family medicine, led the publication from 1988-2018.

The medical editors are all board-certified family physicians, with a mission to “empower family physicians to improve the health of patients and communities as the leading source of medical information while advancing science and health equity.”