The journal of insurance medicine.

Abstract

Organizations must be responsive to their membership, and professional organizations need to have the means to communicate with their individual members. The American Academy of Insurance Medicine is fortunate to have at least 3 methods of passing information in print to its members, namely, the journal the newsletter, and sporadic mailings. This means that there can be objectives for each situation, and they can either fortify messages when appropriate or avoid overlap. The Editorial Board of the journal developed a set of goals at the end of 1996. These goals were consistent with the mission statement and goals of the Academy at that time and currently remain consistent with the mission statement and strategic goals of the Academy, particularly with reference to the first 3 goals: (1) interpret and evaluate advances in medicine and the delivery of medical care as they apply to the insurance medical director; (2) advance the study of mortality and morbidity as it applies to medicine; and (3) promote learning within insurance medicine and distribute this information through all appropriate Continuing Medical Education and publication channels. The goals of the journal were predicated on the objective of providing a scientific forum for the professional discipline of insurance medicine and to encourage both members of the Academy and those scientists and researchers who have a special interest in morbidity and mortality studies to publish original data in a peer-reviewed journal. To make the journal an attractive vehicle for publication and a useful reference source, we established the indexing of the journal as one of our goals.

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