In 2011 the list of Russian medical journals was replenished with one more edition – the first issue of the scientific and practical journal for specialists of health care of "Archive of internal medicine" was published. From the first issue the journal at the publication of materials is guided by high standards of the Russian medical school; the balance which is successfully found and carefully observed by an editorial board between high scientific character and practice does it equally demanded both scientists-physicians, and the practicing doctors — irrespective of the direction of their primary activity.
Having begun the history as the official journal of the Russian scientific medical organization of specialists in internal diseases, since 2015 "Archive of internal medicine" becomes the independent journal. It allowed to expand a range of the topics covered on pages of the journal, having included in them not only traditional "internal diseases" questions, but also questions of infectious diseases, endocrinology, gastroenterology, preventive medicine, etc.
Now the journal, from design of a cover to the contents, fully conforms to requirements of today to the modern medical edition. It became a desktop edition for the practicing doctors; today the journal — not only a source of new data, but also the present manual to action. By recognition of readers – the practicing doctors, teachers and research associates, and also students of medical schools – the journal became a platform of exchange of experience, a source of obtaining the most interesting information.
The structure of an editorial board and editorial council of the journal includes recognized experts in the most different areas of medicine that allows to support the high scientific level of the edition. Among authors – the skilled clinical physicians and scientists-physicians having extensive practical experience, being at the top of medical science.