Are you an artist? The AAMC peer-reviewed journal Academic Medicine is holding a third call for Cover Art now through April 28! Whether you are a physician, resident, student, premed, or patient, your original art could be featured on the cover. As you're preparing your work, consider these 5 tips for a successful Cover Art submission:
1. Be inspired by your academic medicine experience, but no need to represent it literally through realistic depictions of stethoscopes, anatomy, etc. Patient representations must be anonymized.
2. Use your required 250-word Artist's Statement to explain your technical choices (medium, color, composition, etc.) and connect your art directly to one or more of the 5 missions of academic medicine: research, education, clinical care in an academic setting, community collaboration, or professionalism. (Submissions without a clear connection to one of these missions may be disqualified.)
3. Consider using any medium-all are welcome-but remember to take a compelling 300 dpi high-resolution image of your sculpture, painting, textile work, or other non-digital media. No filters please.
4. Follow the cover specifications to ensure your artwork appears in full. Images should be 9" x 8" or 1260 x 1084 pixels, or they will be cropped at the editor's discretion to fit the cover specifications.
5. Submit your original artwork and make sure you retain the copyright. You must upload a completed AAMC Artist Consent Form as part of your submission. We provide a $100 cash award to each artist for publishing the selected artwork.
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Laura Blyton
Staff Editor
Association of American Medical Colleges
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