Journal Profile
ACP Journal Club
Publisher: American College of Physicians
Editor: Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, MACP
Established: 1991
Frequency: Bi–monthly
Audience: Primary care physicians
Circulation: 86,808 Paid
ACP Journal Club is unique in the world of medical journals. The journal’s distinctive format features a practical layout that provides rapid access to relevant clinical information that is immediately applicable to a physician’s daily practice.
ACP Journal Club editors review over 100 medical journals in search of the most essential evidence-based information about diagnosis, treatment, and the practice of medicine. Each issue presents concise abstracts with broad evidencebased information covering the full spectrum of primary care, thereby increasing the exposure of featured advertisements by ensuring that physician readers will return to the journal’s pages time and time again to keep abreast of the latest findings in a multitude of subspecialty areas.
ACP Journal Club now includes ratings of each article’s clinical relevance and newsworthiness. The ratings— provided by a panel of more than 2,000 practicing physicians—allow readers to see how useful each article is for both generalists and specialists.
ACP Journal Club is written specifically for internists and primary care physicians and is a benefit of paid ACP membership for internists and medical students. Many internists are primary care physicians who provide disease prevention services, diagnosis, and treatment to adults and adolescents. Others have chosen to specialize their practice in one of internal medicine’s fourteen subspecialties: cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, hematology, rheumatology, neurology, pulmonary disease, oncology, infectious diseases, allergy and immunology, sports medicine, critical care medicine, and geriatrics. There are twice as many general internists and subspecialists in the United States (219,344 as of June 2007) as family physicians (99,092) and general practitioners (9,383) combined, and last year internists wrote nearly half a billion prescriptions. This group constitutes the ideal market for advertisers who wish to reach high-prescribing clinicians treating adult patients.
Page updated: 10-17-07