The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) is accepting articles for its winter 2025 issue of The Ohio Family Physician (TOFP), a quarterly magazine with a print and digital distribution of more than 7,000 family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical student members in Ohio.
- Administrative burdens
- Family medicine residency closures
- Primary care physician shortage and solutions
- Transitioning to retirement
- New physicians starting their careers
- How to communicate within sensitive or polarizing conversations.
Each article should provide talking points for patients and stakeholders that physicians can utilize in practice, and provide credible sources/references to ensure an evidence-based publication.
If you or someone you know is interested in having an article published, please contact Communications Manager Lauren Heberling no later than Friday, September 26, with an intended article topic.
Once a topic has been approved, Lauren will provide an Author Information Form that is to be completed and returned, along with a final article copy and references, no later than Friday, October 3.
Please review the Author Guidelines for details on the accepted article types, eligibility criteria, and contribution guidelines. Space is limited and articles will be accepted at the discretion of the editorial team.
Please contact Lauren with questions or for additional information.



