Stephen K Stacey, Peter H Seidenberg, Lynn M Meadows, David Schneider, Bernard Ewigman
{"title":"Building Research Capacity (BRC): Purposes, Components, and Activities to Date.","authors":"Stephen K Stacey, Peter H Seidenberg, Lynn M Meadows, David Schneider, Bernard Ewigman","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240033R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240033R1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Building Research Capacity (BRC) initiative was founded in 2015 as a collaboration between the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). It aims to enhance family medicine research engagement by helping develop researchers, research educators, and research leaders. Through consultations, a fellowship, tailored presentations at national conferences, and ongoing assessment, BRC addresses the dynamic needs of various stakeholders in family medicine research. There is a growing need for organized efforts in primary care research capacity development, and BRC is positioned to provide ongoing leadership and direction. Targeted areas of growth for BRC are expansion and diversification, collaboration, and iterative evaluation and adaptation. A commitment to innovation, inclusivity, and adaptability propels BRC toward transformative growth in family medicine research.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S96-S101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142899954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Myra L Muramoto, Melanie Steiner, David F Schmitz, Nahid J Rianon
{"title":"Mentoring for the Diverse Range of Family Physicians' Engagement in Research.","authors":"Myra L Muramoto, Melanie Steiner, David F Schmitz, Nahid J Rianon","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240098R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240098R1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Primary care researchers are increasingly at the forefront of developing innovations and new research methods to address complex issues in health care, including multi-morbidity, social determinants of health, health equity, managing population health in clinical practice, patient satisfaction, and provider burnout. Research demonstrates that \"primary care is the only health care component where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes.\"<sup>1</sup> As a primary care specialty, family medicine has evolved beyond its initial focus on clinical practice and education to realizing the imperative for the discipline to robustly engage in research and embrace the responsibility to generate the evidence that drives changes in primary care practice and policy.<sup>2</sup> The primary care clinic is increasingly seen as a complement to medical school laboratories as a powerful site for developing new evidenced-based medicine, and essential for translating new clinical knowledge into practice. Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) comprising primary care clinicians working in the \"real world\" of clinics promise to bridge \"the gaps between communities, funders and policy makers\"<sup>3</sup> and the National Institutes of Health has shown increased interest in strengthening Clinical Translational Science Awardees' collaborations with PBRNs.<sup>4</sup> Despite primary care's proven ability to deliver improved outcomes at a lower cost, not enough family physicians are currently engaging in research to improve practice and inform policy. This commentary attempts to describe the wide range of family physicians' intensity of involvement in primary care research and the prospects of mentoring for these needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S69-S74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfred F Tallia, Jeanne M Ferrante, Diane Hill, Manuel E Jimenez, Maria Pellerano, Maria F Ciminelli, Eric Jahn, Shawna V Hudson
{"title":"Building Family Medicine Research Through Community Engagement: Leveraging Federal Awards to Develop Infrastructure.","authors":"Alfred F Tallia, Jeanne M Ferrante, Diane Hill, Manuel E Jimenez, Maria Pellerano, Maria F Ciminelli, Eric Jahn, Shawna V Hudson","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240007R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240007R1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many academic departments and programs struggle with the challenge of how to begin a meaningful research program. A useful place to start is with the work they already are doing in communities. Using work in practices and other clinical venues as a springboard can build helpful relationships that can catalyze research and build infrastructure that matters to family medicine clinicians, researchers, and the communities they serve.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S133-S137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practice-Based Research Networks: Asphalt on the Blue Highways of Primary Care Research.","authors":"Donald E Nease, John M Westfall, Elisabeth Wilson","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2023.230493R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2023.230493R1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S129-S132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142640129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why I'm Glad I Quit My (First) PhD.","authors":"Cynthia Lombardo","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240003R0","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240003R0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S75-S76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142899240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen K Stacey, Melanie Steiner-Sherwood, Paul Crawford, Joseph W LeMaster, Catherine McCarty, Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, Amanda Weidner, Peter H Seidenberg
{"title":"Measuring Research Capacity: Development of the PACER Tool.","authors":"Stephen K Stacey, Melanie Steiner-Sherwood, Paul Crawford, Joseph W LeMaster, Catherine McCarty, Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, Amanda Weidner, Peter H Seidenberg","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240085R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240085R1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evaluating research activity in research departments and education programs is conventionally accomplished through measurement of research funding or bibliometrics. This limited perspective of research activity restricts a more comprehensive evaluation of a program's actual research capacity, ultimately hindering efforts to enhance and expand it. The objective of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the existing literature pertaining to the measurement of research productivity in research institutions. Using these findings, the study aimed to create a standardized research measurement tool, the Productivity And Capacity Evaluation in Research (PACER) Tool. The evidence review identified 726 relevant articles in a literature search of PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, ERIC, CINAHL, and Google Scholar with the keywords \"research capacity\" and \"research productivity.\" Thirty-nine English-language studies applicable to research measurement were assessed in full and 20 were included in the data extraction. Capacity/productivity metrics were identified, and the relevance of each metric was data-charted according to 3 criteria: the metric was objective, organizational in scale, and applicable to varied research domains. This produced 42 research capacity/productivity metrics that fell into 7 relevant categories: bibliometrics, impact, ongoing research, collaboration activities, funding, personnel, and education/academics. With the expertise of a Delphi panel of researchers, research leaders, and organizational leadership, 31 of these 42 metrics were included in the final PACER Tool. This multifaceted tool enables research departments to benchmark research capacity and research productivity against other programs, monitor capacity development over time, and provide valuable strategic insights for decisions such as resource allocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S173-S184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142640126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tactics for Institutional Advocacy to Increase Research Capacity in a Family Medicine Department.","authors":"Masahito Jimbo, Gerardo Moreno","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240103R1","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240103R1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family medicine as a specialty has steadily increased its research capacity. Specific approaches are needed to attain the following: 1) Advocate for increased funding for Departments of Family Medicine from institutional leadership. 2) Identify and promote promising practices for chairs to support and fund research participation within their departments and institutions. Having each assumed the chair position recently, the authors summarize the specific approaches taken to expand the research capacity in a midsized urban and a large research intensive urban public university family medicine department. They included: obtaining adequate support from the Dean and other institutional programs at the time of on-boarding, focusing on established research themes within the department, ensuring the recruited faculty had high likelihood of success via their track record and mentorship, and getting the buy-in from all faculty through sharing of vision and helping everyone establish their scholarly niche.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"S102-S105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention.","authors":"Elizabeth Close, Alexander Jones, William Noggle","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240056R0","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240056R0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Consider prescribing doxycycline as prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in certain clinical scenarios. New data suggests that a one-time dose of 200 mg doxycycline taken within 72 hours of an unprotected sexual encounter may reduce transmission of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia by a combined two thirds in a high-risk population.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1140-1142"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keep on Keeping on - Mirena IUD for 8 Years.","authors":"Samuel Holt McNair, Carl Tunink, Laura Morris","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240037R0","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240037R0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Counsel patients that their Mirena IUD retains contraceptive effectiveness for extended use up to 8 years.<sup>1</sup> The cumulative failure rate for years 6 through 8 was 0.68%, similar to reported rates for the first 5 years of use.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1143-1145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filtering Race Out of GFR Calculation.","authors":"Winfred Frazier, Yufei Ge","doi":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240035R0","DOIUrl":"10.3122/jabfm.2024.240035R0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Use the new eGFR<sub>cr-cys</sub> equation (estimated glomerular filtration rate equation that incorporates both serum creatinine and serum cystatin C levels) to estimate the GFR for both Black and non-Black individuals because the equation has improved accuracy, minimizes differences in eGFR between race groups, and more accurately reflects chronic kidney disease (CKD) prognosis while eliminating the use of race in GFR estimating equations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50018,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1146-1148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}