The New England Journal of Medicine is celebrating 200 years of publishing practice-changing medical advances in 2012. Throughout the year, NEJM will mark the anniversary with events, content and applications that celebrate all those who contribute to and read the journal, especially recognising the vital connection between research and practice.
The events begin in January with the launch of NEJM's 200th anniversary website. This is followed by the publication of articles invited for the anniversary, the release of a documentary film that narrates three groundbreaking findings that transformed practice, and other special events.
The anniversary is projected to reinforce NEJM's dedication to improving patient care through its mission to bring the best information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice to physicians and other healthcare professionals. NEJM claims to be the most widely read and respected medical journal in the world.
To mark the anniversary, the NEJM anniversary website features an interactive historic timeline of medical advances from the past 200 years. The timeline, linking the history of modern medicine to select content in the NEJM Archive, is also available as an iPad app. The website has called on readers to submit an anniversary message, a story about how NEJM has affected them, or a video explaining why NEJM matters or what NEJM means to them. Additionally, the portal offers readers an opportunity to vote each month for the most important article in a specific time period, until the end of the year when readers will decide the most important article in NEJM history. A Historical Image Challenge will offer a new image each week selected from the NEJM Archive.
Coming later this year on the anniversary website, a new 30-minute film will examine the past 200 years of medical progress, focusing on anaesthesiology and surgery, cancer and HIV. The film connects medical groundbreaking research -- much of it published in NEJM -- to modern medical practice through a series of evocative, interwoven vignettes.
NEJM will also host a 200th symposium on June 22 at Harvard Medical School. This event will feature experts covering a number of medical topics, with the intent of exploring how medicine has interfaced with society to improve people's lives over the past two centuries. After the event, the symposium will be available for viewing on the anniversary website.
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