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Asia Pacific Family Medicine: The rebirth of a not-so-young child

Lyn Clearihan1 email, TP Lam2 email and Zorayda Leopando3 email

General Practice Training Program, Monash University/Victorian Metropolitan Alliance, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Family Medicine Unit, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines

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Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2008, 7:1doi:10.1186/1447-056X-7-1

Published: 29 September 2008

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Asia Pacific Family Medicine was first published as a paper journal by Blackwell Publishing in 2002. At the time, we thought it was "a little like the birth of a child" [1]. Six years later, after some ups and downs, we are now moving to the open access web-based BioMed Central platform. This move to us, the Editors, is like the re-birth of a not-so-young child. Whilst the last 6 years have not been plain sailing for Asia Pacific Family Medicine, we believe there is still a strong need for the journal and it is anticipated that this new move will increase the exposure of the journal to a much wider audience. It is also an opportunity for us to build on what we have achieved so far and to take things further.


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