The Journal of Family Practice (JFP) has named Dr. Anthony J. Viera as the new Editor in Chief, effective July 1.
Dr. Viera is the chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University School of Medicine. He also continues to have an active outpatient practice and rounds on the newborn nursery/postpartum service.
The Journal of Family Practice® is a peer-reviewed and indexed journal that provides its nearly 104,000 family physician readers with timely, practical, and evidence-based information that they can immediately put into practice. Research and applied evidence articles, plus patient-oriented departments such as Practice Alert, PURLs, and Clinical Inquiries, can be found in print and at mdedge.com/familymedicine, a part of the MDedge® web portal. The website, which logs an average of nearly 288,000 users every month, also offers videos by physician specialists, Residents’ Rapid Review—a 5-question quiz designed specifically for those preparing to take the family medicine (re)certification exam, and interactive features such as Photo Rounds Friday—a weekly diagnostic puzzler.
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