The first issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics' first journal, "Pediatrics," was published in January 1948. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had been in existence for 16 years, its membership growing from 304 charter members to nearly 2,200. There was a growing national need for general pediatricians, and medical education was shifting toward better pediatric training of general practitioners in medical schools and hospital internships.1 Furthermore, the AAP's scientific sessions, the purpose of which was "to improve pediatric education by making available regularly the advances in pediatric knowledge,"1 were also growing in number. The AAP, recognizing a predictable and welcome expansion of pediatric medicine, saw the need to take ownership of its own journal and to "publish an outstanding journal whose articles will be practically helpful but which at the same time will be challenging in their scientific content."
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