Co-published by the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association

Information for Authors


  • A. Mission and Scope

    The mission of the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC) is to promote excellence in critical thinking around prevention, diagnosis, and management of challenging clinical situations and awareness of new or unique clinical entities by disseminating rigorously peer-reviewed reports of real clinical cases encountered by physicians and other medical professionals.

    AIMCC is copublished by the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Heart Association (AHA). It is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes case reports, case series, image/video cases, and Clinical Reflections on topics across the spectrum of medicine. Suitable topics are those that provide educational value, advance knowledge, and generate new hypotheses.

    Subject areas of interest, include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • General IM
    • IM Subspecialties
    • General Surgery
    • Surgical Subspecialities
    • General Pediatrics
    • Pediatrics Subspecialties
    • Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
    • Radiology
    • Pathology
    • Obstetrics/Gynecology
    • Neurology

  • B. Readership and Reach

    AIMCC welcomes readers that include not only members of the ACP and the AHA but also all physicians, other health care professionals, researchers, and students from the broad spectrum of health and medicine worldwide. AIMCC articles are discoverable through Google Scholar. The full text of all articles from AIMCC is digitally preserved through Portico and LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe).

  • C. Publisher

    The ACP (ACPonline.org) and the AHA (heart.org) co-own AIMCC. ACP is the largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician member group in the United States. ACP members include internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internists specialize in the care of adults. The AHA is the nation’s oldest, largest voluntary organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular diseases and stroke. It has more than 40 million volunteers and supporters, including professional members.

    Statements expressed in AIMCC reflect the views of the authors and not necessarily the policies of the journal, its Editors, the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, or the institutions that the authors are affiliated with, unless so identified. AIMCC accepts no responsibility for statements made by contributors.