2025 Submission Categories
All submission types, except for precourses, will use the following primary categories. Please refer to the Precourse call for submissions for more details.
Ambulatory Medicine
Submissions that focus on the outpatient care of medical conditions and the role, effectiveness, and innovation of primary care and outpatient clinicians and systems.
Career Development, Professionalism, and Wellness
Submissions focusing on issues impacting career development, promotion, work satisfaction, personal and professional life integration, and creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for the generalist workforce.
Clinical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, and Health Information Technology
Submissions that combine foundational principles of computer and information science with medicine to further advancements in medical research, patient data collection and analysis, medical education, telemedicine, and administration of public health care services, as well as the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
Clinical Skills
Submissions that highlight techniques and clinical skills for ambulatory and hospital-based clinical care.
DEI, Health Equity, and Social Determinants of Health
Submissions devoted to the health and health care of underserved and special populations, the social and structural factors that impact health, and identifying and/or rectifying health disparities. This includes submissions on anti-racism, LGBTQ+ communities, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Latinx, and other communities facing discrimination.
Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Submissions addressing aging, care of older adults and/or individuals living with a serious illness, and treatment decision-making for individuals near the end of life.
Healthcare Delivery and Redesign
Submissions with a focus on reimagining, redesigning, and implementing innovative systems to deliver health care more effectively and efficiently.
Health Care Policy and Health Services Research
Submissions that evaluate the impact of local, state/province, or national policies and/or advocacy on clinical and economic outcomes. Submissions that highlight research in areas such as biology, neuroscience, sociology/psychology, genetics, computational science, economics, health services, and health outcomes, with the goal of broadening knowledge in the field of General Internal Medicine.
Hospital Medicine
Submissions that focus on the care of hospitalized patients, the inpatient care of medical conditions, and the role and effectiveness of hospitalists and hospital-based systems.
Medical Education and Scholarship
Submissions that focus on issues related to medical education (needs assessment, curricular design, curricular implementation, outcomes assessment in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education).
Medical Ethics and Humanities
Submissions that focus on clinical ethics, research ethics, global health ethics, medical professionalism, the history of medicine, art, literature, philosophy, theology, and/or spirituality in medicine.
Mental/Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Submissions addressing mental health and substance use through clinical or educational research. This includes a broad range of substances—alcohol, tobacco, both prescription and non-prescription drugs, in addition to street drugs.
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Submissions that focus on quality assessment, gaps in quality of care, medical errors, quality improvement, patient safety, and health systems science in the ambulatory or inpatient setting.
Women’s Health, Sex, and Gender-Informed Medicine
Submissions related to education, research, and patient care affected by patient sex and gender, including reproductive health care, men’s health, and gender-affirming medicine.
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