The journal was established in 1966, and 27 issues have been published to date. From 1977 to 1983, the journal was published as a supplement to the journal Medicine. The editors-in-chief and assistant editors of the journal were Dušan Jakac and Mladen Cezner, Anton Burić and Ivica Kraus, Juraj Sepčić and Karlo Stanić, and guest supplement editors were Vladimir Šustić, Božena Kopajtić, Dobrila Rehak, Ante Škrobonja, Đurđica Matić-Glažar, Duje Vukas and Milan Gazdik. Local topics (anniversaries of the founding of the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, the 70th anniversary of Silvije Novak’s life, a bibliography of qualification theses prepared and defended by Faculty employees at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka and elsewhere from 1959 to 1980, the history of medicine in the Rijeka macro-region), often also national medicine topics (the 300th anniversary of the founding of the University of Zagreb, the role of the Church in the history of healthcare in Croatia) and topics of general importance (renal replacement therapy, clinic and therapy for pediatric epilepsy) ensured the newsletter Acta Fac med Flum a respectable place among biomedical journals on a national level, to a smaller extent on the international level in regional periodicals and registers/indexes (only four citations in CC, SCI). The journal is partly printed in foreign languages (predominantly English) and is exchanged with dozens of well-known world publications on biomedical topics. Acta Fac med Flum is registered in a number of tertiary journal index rankings (Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Biological abstracts/Biosis, Pascal “M”/CNRS, Bowker international serials database, Referativnij journal Akademiji nauk Rasii). The basic function of Actae Fac med Flum is to familiarize interested domestic and international readers with the scientific, professional and other papers written by our Faculty employees, especially with medicine in Rijeka, and to help medical doctors and researchers in their scientific and teaching endeavours.
Despite the scarcity, Acta Fac med Flum contributes to biomedical science and our culture because, as already mentioned, only culture and science in all their manifestations are the foundations of the survival of small nations.
Cited from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka: 1955–2005. Rijeka: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka, 2005, p. 232.