TY - JOUR
T1 - ACRM's evolving mission
T2 - Opportunities to promote rehabilitation research
AU - Heinemann, Allen W.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133B040032).
Funding Information:
In concluding my presidential term, I am inspired by the findings from a new research project, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research through a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness. My colleagues (see Acknowledgments) and I are developing a measure of community participation and have conducted focus groups with various rehabilitation stakeholders including consumers, caregivers, providers, payers, and policymakers. Although the themes from these stakeholders define community participation generally, they provide lessons for the Congress’s leadership as we consider ways to promote participation of members in ACRM. The stakeholders’ themes of opportunity and choice, active engagement, control, having an impact, supporting others, citizenship, and inclusion may define participation in our community of rehabilitation research, too. Like me, I suspect you seek from the Congress opportunities and choice in ways to participate, active engagement in a community of rehabilitation researchers, a positive effect through our work, opportunities to support each other, a sense of corporate citizenship, and inclusion in the organization’s activities. More than ever, Archives provides a premier mechanism to fulfill the Congress’s mission and to promote our sense of community. I encourage you to engage actively in this rehabilitation research community and to reap the benefits of doing so.
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - This presidential address reflects on the history and mission of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and considers the benefits derived from joint ownership of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). Much of ACRM's history has been distinguished by collaboration with AAPM&R on essential concerns. Evolving organizational priorities have resulted in distinct association missions that have consequences for joint ownership of Archives. The journal has grown in important ways in the past 86 years from a solo editor to an editorial board and to joint ownership and sponsorship of alternating issues. The quality of Archives has improved substantially in the past decade, with an improving impact factor and an increasing number of manuscript submissions. A new contract with the publisher provides an opportunity to consider the relationship between the Congress and Archives and what kind of benefit ACRM desires it to be for its members, to the larger community of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), and to the persons with disabilities we as PM&R professionals seek to serve. Archives is well positioned to fulfill ACRM's focus on promoting rehabilitation research and facilitating information dissemination and technology transfer. An internationally respected journal is an excellent means to disseminate rehabilitation research that promotes health, independence, productivity, and quality of life for people with disabling conditions. This new chapter in the relationship between Archives and the Academy and Congress provides several opportunities for rehabilitation research leadership. More than ever, Archives provides a premier mechanism to fulfill the Congress's mission and to promote our sense of community.
AB - This presidential address reflects on the history and mission of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and considers the benefits derived from joint ownership of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). Much of ACRM's history has been distinguished by collaboration with AAPM&R on essential concerns. Evolving organizational priorities have resulted in distinct association missions that have consequences for joint ownership of Archives. The journal has grown in important ways in the past 86 years from a solo editor to an editorial board and to joint ownership and sponsorship of alternating issues. The quality of Archives has improved substantially in the past decade, with an improving impact factor and an increasing number of manuscript submissions. A new contract with the publisher provides an opportunity to consider the relationship between the Congress and Archives and what kind of benefit ACRM desires it to be for its members, to the larger community of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), and to the persons with disabilities we as PM&R professionals seek to serve. Archives is well positioned to fulfill ACRM's focus on promoting rehabilitation research and facilitating information dissemination and technology transfer. An internationally respected journal is an excellent means to disseminate rehabilitation research that promotes health, independence, productivity, and quality of life for people with disabling conditions. This new chapter in the relationship between Archives and the Academy and Congress provides several opportunities for rehabilitation research leadership. More than ever, Archives provides a premier mechanism to fulfill the Congress's mission and to promote our sense of community.
KW - Physical medicine
KW - Rehabilitation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.11.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 16442965
AN - SCOPUS:31444449090
VL - 87
SP - 157
EP - 159
JO - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
SN - 0003-9993
IS - 2
ER -