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Publishing an medical educational manuscript in the anatomical sciences? Consider submitting it to the Anatomical Sciences Educator (ASE). This new Wiley Interscience journal is considered to be a joint effort between the two major anatomical associations - the AAA and the AACA - as evidenced by the two co-editors. An agreement was reached between the ASE and Clinical Anatomy whereby educational-based manuscripts received at Clinical Anatomy would be forwarded to ASE - with consent of the author(s). All information about the journal can be located at the web link above.

Clinical Anatomy is now the official journal of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists.

Has your student (or one you know of) submitted a paper to Clinical Anatomy? He/she could be eligible for the Keith and Marion Moore Blue Box Award. See below for the details.

Editors

Founding Editor:
Ralph Ger, M.D. (1988-1991)

Editor-in-Chief:
Stephen W. Carmichael, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Department of Anatomy
Mayo Clinic/Mayo Medical School
Rochester, MN 55905

AACA Co-Editors:
Anne M.R. Agur, Ph.D.
Division of Anatomy
Department of Surgery
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1A8

Mark F. Seifert, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Robert J. Spinner, M.D.
Department of Neurologic Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN 55905

R. Shane Tubbs, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Children's Hospital
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Birmingham, AL 35233

Joel A. Vilensky, M.D.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Fort Wayne, IN 46805

John T. Hansen, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 601A
Rochester, New York 14642

BACA Editor:
Stuart W. McDonald, Ph.D.
Anatomy Department
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ

ASSA Editor:
Nirusha Lachman, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy
Mayo Clinic/Mayo Medical School
Rochester, MN 55905

ANZACA Editor:
Helen Nicholson, M.D.
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
University of Otago
Otago School of Medical Sciences
Dunedin, New Zealand

Goals of the Journal

The goal of Clinical Anatomy is to provide a medium for the exchange of current information between anatomists and clinicians. The journal embraces anatomy in all its aspects - gross, histologic, developmental, and neurologic - as applied to medical practice. Furthermore, the journal assists physicians in keeping abreast of new methodologies for patient management and informs educators of new developments in clinical anatomy and teaching techniques.

Clinical Anatomy publishes original and review articles of scientific, clinical, and educational interest. Papers covering the application of anatomic principles to the solution of clinical problems and/or the application of clinical observations to expand anatomic knowledge are welcomed.

The journal accepts articles in the following categories:

  • Original Communications
  • Original reserach in clinical anatomy
  • Case Studies
  • Reports of clinically significant observations
  • Clinical Conundrum Corner
  • Puzzling clinical presentations understood by their anatomical basis
  • Medical Education
  • Educational developments in clinical anatomy and teaching techniques
  • Viewpoint
  • Opinions or prespectives on clinical anatomy and medical education
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Book Reviews
  • Abstracts *Peer-reviewed categories

Submission Particulars

You can download a copy of the current Guidelines for Authors by clicking here. It can be downloaded to your desktop or opened and viewed as a .pdf document.

All  AACA/BACA and non-affiliated manuscripts must be submitted electronically through Manuscript Central.

Current Edition

Wiley-Liss, Inc., publisher of the journal, maintains an electronic Table of Contents for the journal on-line .  The journal site also contains abstracts and key words as well as entire articles as PDF files.   Issue content is available on-line within one week of the print journal.

Not Receiving Your Journal?

If you are a paid-up, active member of the Association, and have not been receiving your journal by mail, please contact our Clinical Anatomy subscription membership manager at Wiley-Liss, Inc., - Ms. Lucy Woo. You can contact her at LWoo@wiley.com Ms. Woo will check to see if your name is in the mailing label file the AACA sends to her. If it is an address-related problem, she will fix it and arrange to have the issue(s) sent to your new address. If your name is not in the file, you will be referred to the Association Secretary or Treasurer to resolve the problem.

The AACA is endeavouring to keep our paid membership list and Wiley's label database as current as possible to prevent delivery/receipt issues. However, remember - YOU must do your part to keep your address current with the Association! You can send any new information to the Association Secretary and database manager - Brian MacPherson or simply visit the database, access our card and click on the "Update My Information" button to access the form to send to us electronically. Any updates go into the database within 24 hours, and to Wiley in our monthly update.

The Keith and Marion Moore "Blue Box" Award

The Keith and Marion Moore "Blue Box" Award has been created by Dr. Keith L. Moore, a founding member of the AACA and well-known anatomy textbook author, as an award to recognize the best student-authored paper published in Clinical Anatomy annually. It is open to graduate and medical students. The "Blue Box" is used in his textbooks as an indicator of clinical significance, and is quite familiar to students.

The award is for the best student paper published in Clinical Anatomy during a given calendar year/journal volume. The awardee must be the first author on the paper. The award will consist of a plaque and a check for $500. This award competition is open to graduate and medical students worldwide, even those who have received their PhD or MD's in the year that the paper is published. The student would be nominated by the student's supervisor or anatomy professor.

A Blue Box Award Committee of 3-5 AACA members will be appointed by the AACA President, with the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Anatomy being a member of the committee. The Award may not be presented each year, if a qualified student paper has not been published. The award would be announced and presented at the Annual AACA Meeting Banquet.

 

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