Clinical Inquiries provide the ideal answers to clinical questions: using a structured search, critical appraisal, authoritative recommendations, clinical perspective, and rigorous peer review, Clinical Inquiries deliver best evidence for point of care use.
Who can author a CI?
Practicing clinicians or faculty are eligible to write and peer review CIs. Residents, medical students and new authors are required to work directly with a faculty co-author/mentor. Writing a Clinical Inquiry will take an average of 20-30 hours to complete.
Although the review is rigorous, we have a 97% publication rate for CIs submitted by our editors to the Journal of Family Practice and American Family Physician . CIs are also published in FPIN’s Electronic Library and in the PEPID Primary Care Plus handheld and Web-based comprehensive point-of-care resource. These answers are prepared by clinician authors, who review and appraise the available evidence. Structured, evidence-based searches of primary and secondary literature are conducted by medical librarian co-authors. Each Clinical Inquiry is peer reviewed by other clinician authors, and an actively practicing family physician provides a clinical perspective on the topic in the form of a clinical commentary. Each clinician author is assigned an assistant editor to help focus the manuscript as needed.
Why author a CI?
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Earn a publication in a peer reviewed journal – the Journal of Family Practice or American Family Physician .
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Receive a 3 month FREE subscription to the Evidence-Based Practice Newsletter.
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Support provided by medical librarians, co-author mentors and editors.
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Achieve department expectations, ACGME requirements, promotion and tenure expectations.
Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted.