American Medical Student Association

Contribute to The New Physician

AMSA's award-winning magazine, The New Physician (TNP), provides comprehensive coverage of issues affecting medical education and health-care. Unlike some association publications, TNP is not a house organ. It operates independently within AMSA and has an editorial calendar set a year in advance. Although the publication is produced by a professional staff, there are many ways you can contribute.

Creative Arts Contest

• Our annual Creative Arts Contest runs in our July-August issue, and includes photography, poetry, painting and short stories. For the 2010 contest, submissions will be due April 9, 2010. Download an entry form now.

Letters to the Editor

• We're always interested in learning what you think of the news, columns and feature articles published in TNP, or on any topic affecting you as a medical student. Send your comments, suggestions and ideas to tnp@amsa.org, marked as a Letter to the Editor. Most letters, as published, have a maximum length of 250 words, but we can trim long letters to fit. Do you have a question we can help you answer or a story idea? Submit those as well!

Join The New Physician's Source List

• Interested in becoming a TNP resource? Want to share your ideas with 36,000 readers? Join our source list. Individuals on this list have agreed to receive occasional e-mails or phone calls from a TNP writer to comment on the record about a particular topic, share their experiences for a feature or even just offer their help with finding sources for a story. Just e-mail your name, phone number, e-mail address and training status to tnp@amsa.org. Your information will only be used for editorial purposes; nothing will be shared with marketing or advertising representatives.

Monitor

• Share with us your insider news about big happenings at your school or within medical education. Would you like to tell your peers about an interesting or unique course you're taking? Let us know: e-mail tnp@amsa.org

On the Wards

• Share touching, enlightening, humorous or enraging accounts of your clinical experiences. Submit your 800- to 1,400-word story via e-mail.

Perspectives

• Write an editorial. These 1,000-word opinion pieces tackle some of the most pressing issues facing medical education and health care-such as physician-assisted suicide, pharmaceutical marketing, the clinical skills exam or even some of the lighter topics, like the challenge of finding time during training to have a life.

Letter from Afield

• Traveled abroad? Worked in underserved areas in the U.S.? Tell us about the medical training experiences you've had beyond the walls of academic medical centers. Submit your 800- to 1,500-word story to us. Questions? E-mail them to tnp@amsa.org or call 703-620-6600, ext. 212.

Folk Tales

• Know of any interesting physicians, medical students or residents for TNP to profile in its "Folk Tales" department? If so, e-mail us a brief description of the individual. If you have it, provide us with the individual's contact information and details on how we can reach you.

Seeking Advice

• TNP is offering an advice column to readers. Do you have an ethical dilemma you'd like us to help you solve? Perhaps an event on the wards has left you puzzled. Or maybe you made a mistake and don't know what to do next. Let a mentor offer some words of guidance. All submissions will be treated anonymously and confidentially. However, we will need your contact information in case we need to clarify your question.

Side Effects

• Know of or read any funny, strange, yet true, bits of current health or medical news? Send your tips to us, and be sure to include source citations if applicable.