Call for Submissions: The Living Hand

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A Call for Submissions: The Living Hand* – Humanities Section for Residents and Medical Students — Journal of General Internal Medicine – Web Edition

The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) has launched a new website with “The Living Hand” humanities section for residents and medical students to submit poetry, personal narrative prose, or original artwork for publication on the web. In “The Living Hand” humanities section, we are publishing articles written by medical students or residents every two weeks, thus providing opportunities for fresh voices to share their stories.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be devoid of patient identifiers per HIPAA standards (see below), or must have written permission from the patient involved in the writing.

Please send submissions and correspondence to the editors at humanities.webjgim@gmail.com.

In your email, indicate the following:

Type of work you are submitting (poetry or prose)

Title of the work

Word count

Brief bio (<100 words) of the author, including position (medical student or resident) and institution

Up to four submissions per author. Please do not submit any new articles until you have heard back from the editors on previously submitted pieces. This may take up to two months.

Articles should be less than 2000 words, submitted in Microsoft Word or Open Office document.

Poems should be less than 50 lines, submitted in Microsoft Word or Open Office document.

Naming convention: For the article, “Generic” by Dr. Jones, save as follows: Generic_Jones.doc

Review process

All submissions will be reviewed by the section editor. The editor will review contributions for originality, style, and content. The editor will respond in a timely fashion with either an acceptance, conditional acceptance, request for revision and resubmission, or rejection.