Archives Of Internal Medicine

The Archives of Internal Medicine, The Pharmacy Times, The Medical Letter, and Consultant Pharmacist are all geared toward healthcare professionals in their respective fields. The Archives of Internal Medicine is designated more for specialists in the field of internal medicine. The Pharmacy Times has a clinical focus in nature, geared towards providing useful and valuable information for pharmacy professionals to aid in their everyday practice. The Pharmacy Times gives very general information for retail, independent, hospital, and specialty pharmacists. The Medical Letter is also intended for pharmacy professionals but is more focused on providing information regarding the pharmaceutical drugs themselves. Similarly to The Pharmacy Times and
The Archives of Internal Medicine is available for purchase for everyone but there are discounts for being a member of AMA. The Archives of Internal Medicine is published weekly on Mondays online. The complete print/online issue is published every month. The Archives of Internal Medicine receives 3.8 million online visits, and 5 million article views and downloads each year. The July 2015 issue circulation statistics of Archives of Internal Medicine most notably show that only 667 out of the total of 21,881 distributed of that issue were to professions other than Physicians/MD. This implies the information is most likely too complex for an average person and the information is specific to the specific to internists, that are practicing as generalists or as medical subspecialists. The Archives of Internal Medicine has 22 issues each year and had 173 volumes before it was retitled to JAMA Internal Medicine in 2013. The current title of the Archives of Internal Medicine has had 175 volumes and counting. Subscription information available shows that Pharmacy Times exists in 81 volumes and publishes 12 issues annually and is mailed to more than 150,000 pharmacists. This shows that Pharmacy Times is distributed to a far greater amount of healthcare professionals than Archives of Internal Medicine although the Archives of Internal Medicine has published more journals annually and has more overall volumes. The Medical Letter currently has 57 volumes and a total of 1481 issues. The monthly circulation for Consultant Pharmacist is 8,000 and according to the American Society of Consultant Pharmacist it is the most valued journal in its field having the highest rating among consultant pharmacist. The reviews posted on the ASCP fact sheet states that 81% of Consultant Pharmacist who receive the journal read it in depth and 24% Consultant Pharmacist read the journal