Research in Family Medicine by Family Physicians for the Practice of Family Medicine

Research participation, protected time, and research output by family physicians in family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine project concluded that research must become a greater part of the culture of the specialty. We examined the participation of family physician residency faculty in research, their protected time, and their research output and how these varied by program type. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of all family medicine residency progr...

The communication patterns of internal medicine and family practice physicians.

BACKGROUND Although differences between Internal Medicine (IM) and Family Practice (FP) physicians have been examined in terms of care outcomes and cost, there have been few studies of specialty differences in physician-patient communication. METHODS In 1995, 277 clinical encounters with 29 full-time, community-based FP physicians and 287 clinical encounters with 30 full-time, community based...

Celebrating family medicine research.

In this issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP) we celebrate the growth and diversity of family medicine research in Canada. In the past 2 decades, Canada’s family medicine research enterprise has grown remarkably. Many academic family medicine departments across the country have developed strong core groups of funded family-physician and allied-health researchers with stable infrastructure an...

Psychological Medicine in Family Practice

Why Research in Family Medicine ?

The ultimate answer to the question, “Why research in family medicine?” is to provide better care for our patients. Through research we want to improve quality of primary care by improving our understanding and practice of it. This research will inevitably be specifi c for family medicine as family medicine is a specifi c discipline. In this article we fi rst explore what makes family medicine ...