Care of older adults and issues related to aging, and end-of-life care decisions regardless of patient age

Transitions and milestones in the career development of general internists engaged, or aspiring to engage in, clinical practice, education and research. Development through all stages of GIM careers, including career satisfaction, and personal/professional balance

Clinical skills of the participants in a target area, such as office orthopedics, procedures, complementary/alternative medicine, and consultative medicine; or the management of acute and chronic disease states; or broader perspectives of disease prevention, early detection, and health promotion including screening, self-care, preventative health behaviors, and interventions to improve these areas of chronic disease management, preventive medicine, and targeted clinical skills

Clinical skills of the participants in a target area, such as office orthopedics, procedures, complementary/alternative medicine, and consultative medicine; or the management of acute and chronic disease states; or broader perspectives of disease prevention, early detection, and health promotion including screening, self-care, preventative health behaviors, and interventions to improve these areas of chronic disease management, preventive medicine, and targeted clinical skills

Health and healthcare of underserved and special populations, health disparities, and health literacy

Health policy at local, state/province, national and/or international/global levels

Organization of health care delivery systems, evaluation of large-scale health care delivery demonstration projects and strategies to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the health system

Care of hospitalized patients, inpatient care of medical conditions, and the role and effectiveness of hospitalists and hospital-based systems

Leadership and management training, negotiation and leveraging resources, culture change, and administrative management and development

Needs assessment, curricular design, curricular implementation, and outcomes assessment in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education

Submissions that focus on areas as diverse as clinical ethics, research ethics, global health ethics, medical professionalism, the history of medicine, literature, philosophy, theology and/or spirituality in medicine

Educational, research, or clinical perspectives in mental health and substance abuse, including alcohol, tobacco, prescription and non-prescription drugs, and street drugs