In an interview with Exchange, Weissman stated that his goal is to "promote discussion about palliative care, academic medicine, and to stimulate dialogue regarding policy issues related to the field of EOL care." Unlike many professional journals, which focus on clinical research, Weissman noted that JPM will focus also on strategies to improve medical education and will discuss end-of-life health policy. JPM's intended audience includes not only medical professionals and researchers, but also allied health professionals and health administrators. Weissman encourages medical students and other health sciences students to submit articles for publication. This approach is fitting, perhaps, because change is likely to occur only by improving how today's medical students - heirs to the medical profession - learn about palliative care.
Weissman believes JPM is a unique forum for discussion of the major problems in the field, including the acceptance of palliative care as a specialty, payment for these services, and issues such as terminal sedation and physician-assisted suicide. Weissman encourages JPM authors to use it as a sanctuary in which to nurture and refine ideas.
The Journal invites medical students to enter its "Manuscript Excellence Award for Physicians in Training," a $1,000 prize for the best article on care of the dying written by a medical student. For details, see the spring 1997 issue of JPM.
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