Editorial
T bis issue marks an important transition for Academie Psychiatry. As we assume editorship, we wish to ac-
Looking
Back,
knowledge our debt and gratitude to the vision, persistence, and hard work of the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Dr. Zebulon Taintor. Zeb captured our imagination and raised our hopes back in 1977 when he and Dr. Robert Cancro introduced the Journal 01 Psychiatrie Education (JPE) to our field. At a time when the work of a11 medical educators was restricted to the Journal 01 Medical Education, it was an exciting and innovative idea for our specialty to have its own educational journal. JPE was not bom at the best of times for psychiatric education. By the mid-1970s academic departments of psychiatry, which had expanded through three decades of NIMH and Veterans Administration subsidies for clinical training, research, and mental health services, were feeling the pinch of declining federal govemment support and experiencing a concurrent decrease in medical students' interest. At that time it was an act of courage to bring out a new journal that focused specifica11y on psychiatric education. Others believed in Zeb' s vision, and JPE received the support of major V.S. and international educational organizations and a noted Editorial Board. However, the difficult struggles to obtain, edit, and publish exce11ent work in psychiatrie education was primarily in Zeb's hands. While Bob Cancro lent an irnporlant assist, JPE increasingly became Zeb' s project and synonymous with bis name. Over a 12-year period (induding two years when JPE moved with hirn to Sri Lanka), Zeb fought disorganized publishers, a lack of editing resources, and repeated deadlines to bring the journal out. As federal support for academic departments of psychiatry shifted in the 1980s from education and training into biologically based research, the difficulties of maintaining a steady flow ofhigh-quality copy for JPE became a greater challenge. The advent and success of the Amer-
Moving
Ahead
Jonathan F. Borus, M.D.
WnUam H. Sledge, M.D.
ican Psychiatrie Press and its recent decision to publish a
Dr. Borus is the editor and Dr. Sledge is the deputy editor of ACQdemic Psychiatry. Copyright Cl 1989 Academic Psychiatry.
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number of carefully selected journals, have provided an opportunity to en1arge the marketplace of ideas in psychiatrie education. APPI provides the possibility for substantially upgrading the production quality of the journal and greatly broadening its readership, thereby providing the potential for increasing the quantity and quality of submissions. Zeb generously responded to overtures that JPE be acquired jointly by the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) and the Association for Academic Psychiatry ) ,
(AAP) for publication as one of APPl's first three journals. Looking back, we wish to express our great appredation for Zeb and Bob's innovation, courage, and persistence in getting JPE started. With new organizational sponsorship and a leading publisher we look ahead to a new journal, Academic Psychiatry, with an enlarged scope and increased access to the field. As in the past, we will publish the best research and program descriptions of educational efforts by and for psychiatrists. We are also seeking topical articles that address teaching, research, administrative, clinica1, organizational, and economic issues relevant to the multiple academic missions of departments of psychiatry. We intend for Academic Psychiatry to become a major forum for the presentation of work that furthers our knowledge in psychiatrie education and stimulates improvements in all aspects of academic psychiatry. To prosper, any journal must be a collaborative effort of contributing authors, interested readers, and hardworking reviewers, editors, and publishers. To our authors we pledge rapid, expert peer review of submissions and timely publication. To our readers, who include the almost 1,000 members of AADPRT and AAP, we pledge to upgrade both the content and quality of Academic Psychiatry so that it becomes a source of innovative ideas,
creative thinking, and lively debate about psychiatrie education and academic psychiatry. Our Editorial Board members have generously agreed to help get Academic Psychiatry up and running by personallY providing all manuscripts the expert, timely review they deserve. As editors we pledge to work with our readership, sponsoring organizations, and APPI to produce a journal of which we will all be proud. We look forward to sharing with you the exdtement and cha11enge of expanding and fulfilling our predecessors' vision.
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T bis issue marks an important transition for Academie Psychiatry. As we assume editorship, we wish to ac-
Looking
Back,
knowledge our debt and gratitude to the vision, persistence, and hard work of the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Dr. Zebulon Taintor. Zeb captured our imagination and raised our hopes back in 1977 when he and Dr. Robert Cancro introduced the Journal 01 Psychiatrie Education (JPE) to our field. At a time when the work of a11 medical educators was restricted to the Journal 01 Medical Education, it was an exciting and innovative idea for our specialty to have its own educational journal. JPE was not bom at the best of times for psychiatric education. By the mid-1970s academic departments of psychiatry, which had expanded through three decades of NIMH and Veterans Administration subsidies for clinical training, research, and mental health services, were feeling the pinch of declining federal govemment support and experiencing a concurrent decrease in medical students' interest. At that time it was an act of courage to bring out a new journal that focused specifica11y on psychiatric education. Others believed in Zeb' s vision, and JPE received the support of major V.S. and international educational organizations and a noted Editorial Board. However, the difficult struggles to obtain, edit, and publish exce11ent work in psychiatrie education was primarily in Zeb's hands. While Bob Cancro lent an irnporlant assist, JPE increasingly became Zeb' s project and synonymous with bis name. Over a 12-year period (induding two years when JPE moved with hirn to Sri Lanka), Zeb fought disorganized publishers, a lack of editing resources, and repeated deadlines to bring the journal out. As federal support for academic departments of psychiatry shifted in the 1980s from education and training into biologically based research, the difficulties of maintaining a steady flow ofhigh-quality copy for JPE became a greater challenge. The advent and success of the Amer-
Moving
Ahead
Jonathan F. Borus, M.D.
WnUam H. Sledge, M.D.
ican Psychiatrie Press and its recent decision to publish a
Dr. Borus is the editor and Dr. Sledge is the deputy editor of ACQdemic Psychiatry. Copyright Cl 1989 Academic Psychiatry.
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number of carefully selected journals, have provided an opportunity to en1arge the marketplace of ideas in psychiatrie education. APPI provides the possibility for substantially upgrading the production quality of the journal and greatly broadening its readership, thereby providing the potential for increasing the quantity and quality of submissions. Zeb generously responded to overtures that JPE be acquired jointly by the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) and the Association for Academic Psychiatry ) ,
(AAP) for publication as one of APPl's first three journals. Looking back, we wish to express our great appredation for Zeb and Bob's innovation, courage, and persistence in getting JPE started. With new organizational sponsorship and a leading publisher we look ahead to a new journal, Academic Psychiatry, with an enlarged scope and increased access to the field. As in the past, we will publish the best research and program descriptions of educational efforts by and for psychiatrists. We are also seeking topical articles that address teaching, research, administrative, clinica1, organizational, and economic issues relevant to the multiple academic missions of departments of psychiatry. We intend for Academic Psychiatry to become a major forum for the presentation of work that furthers our knowledge in psychiatrie education and stimulates improvements in all aspects of academic psychiatry. To prosper, any journal must be a collaborative effort of contributing authors, interested readers, and hardworking reviewers, editors, and publishers. To our authors we pledge rapid, expert peer review of submissions and timely publication. To our readers, who include the almost 1,000 members of AADPRT and AAP, we pledge to upgrade both the content and quality of Academic Psychiatry so that it becomes a source of innovative ideas,
creative thinking, and lively debate about psychiatrie education and academic psychiatry. Our Editorial Board members have generously agreed to help get Academic Psychiatry up and running by personallY providing all manuscripts the expert, timely review they deserve. As editors we pledge to work with our readership, sponsoring organizations, and APPI to produce a journal of which we will all be proud. We look forward to sharing with you the exdtement and cha11enge of expanding and fulfilling our predecessors' vision.
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