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Committee Reports |
Research Committee Report
The Research Committee also devotes meeting time each year for capacity-building sessions on important topics for the STFM membership. At the 2007 Annual Spring Conference, we will have several such sessions, including workshops on research in residency and on research related to quality improvement. We will also repeat our joint session with the Program Committee on submitting conference proposals, and we will display a poster with tips for successful submissions. Other posters will emphasize junior faculty development opportunities. Our small-group workshop presented at the 2006 Annual Spring Conference, “Charting Your Course to Research Success,” was successfully exported to the 2007 STFM Predoctoral Education Conference. The session was refocused on the challenges of educational research projects and opportunities to help meet these challenges. 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 and identified in an extensive literature search. This year, 13 papers were nominated for final consideration among thousands of eligible papers, and the final selection was completed in January 2006. William Ventres, MD, MA, from the Multnomah County (Oregon) Health Department and Mid-County Health Center, is the recipient of this year’s award. The winning paper, “Physicians, Patients, and the Electronic Health Record: An Ethnographic Analysis,” Annals of Family Medicine 2006;4:124-31, received high marks from the Research Committee for its research question, relevance to family medicine, and potential impact. Dr Ventres will have the opportunity to present this paper at the Annual Spring Conference at the same session where our 2007 Curtis G. Hames Research Award winner will speak. This year’s Hames Award recipient, Peter Franks, MD, is being recognized for his research career devoted to the role of primary care in the health care system, social and psychological factors affecting primary care, and the refinement of primary care research methodology. 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 Chicago this year, the research plenary address will be delivered by Jim Mold, MD, MPH, of the University of Oklahoma. Dr Mold’s address will include a discussion of the role of practice-based research networks in the improvement of health care delivery. The Research Committee is also active with other organizations dealing with family medicine scholarship. The Research Committee chair serves as STFM representative to the AAFP Commission on Science, the Association of Family Medicine Organizations Research Subcommittee, and the Board of Directors 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 to the Research Committee, with subsequent discussion and recommendations reported 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 premier 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 Richelle Koopman, MD, MS Naomi Lacy, PhD Peter Smith, MD
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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’ and residents’ works-in-progress, and Best Research Paper Award winners). This is the first year we have expanded the works-in-progress posters to residents, and we were pleased with the response to our call.