摘要：I am honored and delighted to be the fifth editor in chief of Family Medicine. I’mpecially grateful to the four editors who preceded me and brought growth and ongoing intellectual rigor to the journal. I will do my best to continue that tradition. When it was first conceived under the name Family Medicine Teacher in 1979, the STFM journal joined only two other family medicine journals in publication (American Family Physician and The Journal of Family Practice). Family Medicine Teacher, like JFP, was born out of a desire to publish an academic journal about the discipline that was not commercially sponsored (phone conversation with John Frey, MD, March 17, 2022). The name of the journal became Family Medicine in 1981 and the founding editor, Lynn Carmichael, MD, remained at the helm until 1985. John Frey, MD, took over as the editor in chief and remained in that position until 1992 when Barry Weiss, MD, assumed the editorship. Dr Weiss was the editor in chief until 2010, when John Saultz, MD, became editor in chief. Dr Saultz has served for the last 12 years. I am the first woman editor in chief of the journal and come from the next generation of family medicine educators. I will continue to ensure the journal’s focus on primary care education, health services research, and health workforce policy. In addition to these subjects, the journa submissions from broader constituencies such as scholars from other primary care disciplines or community residency programs.
