Call for Cover Art: Open May 3 to July 30, 2021

The January 2021 issue of Academic Medicine featured a bold new cover design—our first redesign in more than 20 years! The new design allows more space to showcase original artwork with a connection to academic medicine. With the new design, we are also excited to launch a new approach to selecting Cover Art. Beginning this year, we will hold an annual call for Cover Art submissions. Our first call will open May 3, 2021! Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine, including artist Maria Hupfield (https://mariahupfield.wordpress.com/), Academic Medicine Assistant Editor Dr. Arno Kumagai, and FRAHME initiative contributor Dr. Vidya B. Viswanathanwe. We are seeking original works of art that should be inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient. The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. High-resolution TIFF files with a minimum of 300 dpi resolution are required at the time of submission. Images should be 9” x 8” or 1260 x 1084 pixels. If an image is not 9” x 8,” it may be cropped at the editor’s discretion to fit the cover specifications. Image files must be grayscale or CMYK. Submissions do not require an abstract. Artists must also submit a related artist’s statement of no more than 250 words as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connectio...
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