A Metric of Progress for Family Medicine Research

Pathman, Donald E.; Gamble, George; Thaker, Samruddhi; Newton, Warren P.

doi:10.1370/afm.276

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“…This earlier study found that, when viewed in its entirety, family medicine's research output is greater than generally assumed. 22,23 The current study updates this earlier investigation by identifying and describing research articles published by the discipline of family medicine in the United States in 2003, and estimating the growth in papers and publishing authors, institutions, and journals since 2000. We define the "discipline of family medicine" as all family physicians and all people working in family medicine's organizations, including family medicine academic departments and family medicine residencies.…”

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Research Published in 2003 by U.S. Family Medicine Authors

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Building a healthy research enterprise is central to family medicine's ability to provide the best possible care to patients and is important to the future of the discipline.1,2 Although family medicine benefits from the research of other clinical disciplines and from research in the basic and social sciences, its practitioners also need answers to clinical questions from studies involving family medicine's own patient populations and practice settings.3-6 Similarly, innovations in the organization of family physicians' offices and in the training of future family physicians depend on data from family medicine's health services and education researchers. Some observers within and outside the discipline have felt that family medicine does not carry out enough research [7][8][9][10] and that increasing financial and other pressures within its academic departments are making research more difficult. [11][12] Recognizing these concerns and the discipline's need for research, family medicine's national leaders have lobbied to support the discipline's researchers with more funding, training programs, and publishing venues. 1,[13][14][15][16] Whether family medicine's research enterprise is healthy and growing or succumbing to external pressures should be understood and monitored. The health of a discipline's research enterprisehaving a sizable and productive researcher workforce, committed and capable research institutions, This article was externally peer reviewed.

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“…A highlight of this forum was the presentation by Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, MD, MSc, of the Canadian Health Service Research Foundation's analysis of the correlates of performance with various structural models of primary care. 1 The research team examined the organizational structure of 28 distinct models of primary health care delivery in a large number of industrialized nations. From this analysis, they derived 4 archetypal organizational models, the key characteristics of which are summarized below:…”

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“…A recent survey of departments identifi ed approximately 400 family medicine faculty with external funding (not including Title VII); these faculty are making signifi cant contributions to creating new knowledge and are publishing with increasing frequency. 1 Given our success in building research capacity, ADFM believes that the most important question is no longer, "how do we get faculty interested in research? " or "how do we obtain research fellowships?"…”

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