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Current and Future Challenges to Publishing Family Medicine Research

Dean A. Seehusen, Sarina B. Schrager and Sumi M. Sexton
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2024, jabfm.2023.230438R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230438R1
Dean A. Seehusen
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (DAS); Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison and Editor-in-Chief of Family Medicine (SBS); Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of American Family Physician (SMS).
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Sarina B. Schrager
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (DAS); Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison and Editor-in-Chief of Family Medicine (SBS); Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of American Family Physician (SMS).
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Sumi M. Sexton
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (DAS); Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison and Editor-in-Chief of Family Medicine (SBS); Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of American Family Physician (SMS).
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