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Committee Reports |
Research Committee Report
The committee also devotes meeting time each year for capacity-building sessions on important topics for the STFM membership. At the 2006 Annual Spring Conference we will have several such sessions, including an all-day preconference Faculty Development Series workshop on research skills, a joint session with the Program Committee on submitting conference proposals, and a small-group workshop titled “Charting Your Course to Research Success.” This session will focus on the challenges faced by those planning to include research and scholarship in their academic career, as well as opportunities to help meet these challenges. It will include a presentation of professional ethics and publication issues from the United States editor of the British Medical Journal. The Annual Spring Conference also provides an opportunity to highlight the accomplishments of family medicine researchers. The committee reviews all original research papers published by STFM members over the preceding academic year for selection of a Best Research Paper Award. Papers are nominated by STFM members or identified in an extensive literature search. This year, 20 papers were nominated for final consideration among thousands of eligible papers, and the final selection was completed in January 2006. Allen Dietrich, MD, Dartmouth Medical School, is the recipient of this year’s award. The winning paper, “Re-engineering Systems for the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial,” BMJ2004;329:602, received high marks from the Research Committee for its research question, scientific rigor, and relevance to family medicine. Dr Dietrich will have the opportunity to present this paper at the Annual Spring Conference, at the same session where our 2006 Curtis G. Hames Research Award winner will speak. He should be familiar with the presentation format, as Dr Dietrich was our Hames Award recipient last year. This year’s Hames Award recipient, Jack Colwill, MD, is being recognized for his tireless efforts building scholarly capacity in our discipline and predicting physician workforce needs. The presentations by the Hames Award winner and the STFM Best Research Paper Award winner are among the research-oriented highlights of the annual meeting, along with the research-themed plenary session. In San Francisco this year, the research plenary address will be delivered by Bernard Ewigman, MD, MSPH, of the University of Chicago. Dr Ewigman will present a future vision in which every family physician and family medicine faculty member would be involved in scholarly work. The Research Committee is also active with other organizations dealing with family medicine scholarship. The Research Committee chair serves as STFM representative to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Commission on Science (formerly Clinical Policies and Research), the AAFP Research Presentations Subcommittee, the Association of Family Medicine Organizations Research Subcommittee, and the Board of the North American Primary Care Research Group. A member of the committee also serves as the STFM liaison to the Family Physicians’ Inquiries Network. Actions that impact family medicine research are reported back to the Research Committee and discussed, with recommendations and reports to the STFM Board of Directors when appropriate. Another effort from STFM to promote family medicine research has been its continued partnership with other family medicine organizations to support the new research journal for our discipline, the Annals of Family Medicine. We continue to value this journal’s contribution to the scientific advancement of our specialty, and we hope that STFM members will continue their submission of manuscripts and their active readership. I would like to thank the Committee and Staff Liaison Kay Frank for their hard work and dedication to this committee and to STFM. Erik Lindbloom, MD, MSPH, Chair Research Committee Erik Lindbloom, MD, MSPH, Chair Fredrick M. Chen, MD, MPH Michael Crouch, MD, MSPH Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS Naomi L. Lacy, PhD M. Norman Oliver, MD Caroline Richardson, MD Peter Smith, MD Anthony J. Viera, MD, Fellow Representative STFM Staff Liaison |
The STFM Research Committee is responsible for promoting and facilitating research among the members of STFM and in the discipline as a whole. As part of the Annual Spring Conference, the Research Committee coordinates twelve 90-minute Research Forums and a Research Poster Fair (including completed projects, fellows' works-in-progress, and Best Research Paper Award winners).