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Proportion of Presentations at NAPCRG and STFM Conferences Later Published as Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Presentation Characteristic Presentations No. Published % (No.) P Value Months to Publication Mean (SE) P Value Overall 1,329 34.4 (457) 15.4 (0.6) At NAPCRG 1,000 36.7 (367) .002 16.0 (0.6) .039 At STFM 329 27.4 (90) 13.1 (1.2) In 2007 616 36.4% (224) NS 15.4 (0.8) NS In 2008 713 32.7% (233) 15.5 (0.8) Completed project 961 42.7 (410) <.001 14.6 (0.6) <.001 Work in progress 368 12.8 (47) 22.7 (1.9) Oral presentation 688 42.9 (295) <.001 13.7 (0.6) <.001 Poster presentation 641 25.3 (162) 18.6 (1.0) -
NAPCRG = North American Primary Care Research Group; NS = not significant; STFM = Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
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Presentation Type Complete Work in Progress P Value Oral, % 47.3 11.8 <.001 Poster, % 34.9 13.1 <.001 P Value <.001 NS -
NS=not significant.
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Presentation Type Complete No. (%) Work in Progress No. (%) P Value Oral 13.6 (0.6) 16.7 (3.8) NS Poster 16.9 (1.1) 24.4 (2.2) .002 P Value .007 NS -
NS=not significant.
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Characteristic NAPCRG STFM P Value Presentations that became publications, % Oral 45.6 35.5 .019 Poster 27.7 16.8 .009 Work in progress 15.3 20.2 NS Completed 41.7 47.7 NS Time to publication, mean (SE), months Oral 14.2 (0.7) 12.0 (1.3) NS Poster 19.0 (1.1) 16.1 (2.5) NS Work in progress 25.1 (2.4) 18.9 (3.1) NS Completed 15.2 (0.6) 11.6 (1.2) .017 -
NAPCRG = North American Primary Care Research Group; NS = not significant; STFM = Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
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Journal Type Publications, No. (%) Family medicine 167 (36.5) Other general medicine 155 (33.9) Specialty 118 (25.8) Medical education 17 (3.7) Journal No. (%) Annals of Family Medicine 50 (10.9) The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 44 (9.6) Family Medicine 31 (6.8) Canadian Family Physician 21 (4.6) British Journal of General Practice 11 (2.4) American Journal of Preventive Medicine 10 (2.2) Family Practice 10 (2.2) Patient Education and Counseling 10 (2.2) BMC Family Practice 9 (2.0) Journal of General Internal Medicine 8 (1.8)
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The Article in Brief
Publication of Research Presented at STFM and NAPCRG Conferences
Robert E. Post , and colleagues
Background Presentations of original research are a key strategy in disseminating new knowledge in academic medicine. To help the knowledge base move forward, it is important that presentations of original research be published in peer-reviewed journals. This study evaluates the proportion of presentations at recent primary care research conferences that have become publications.
What This Study Found More than one-third of all original research presentations from the meetings of the North American Primary Care Research Group and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine eventually become publications, according to an analysis of 1,329 oral and poster presentations from the 2007 and 2008 annual conferences. A mean time of about 15 months from presentation to publication for family medicine is comparable to that of other fields. Less than two out of every five publications were in a family medicine journal, indicating breadth in family medicine research.
Implications
- That two-thirds of research presentations at major academic family medicine meetings appear not to transition to peer-reviewed publications, the authors assert, suggests room for improvement in developing and disseminating scholarship.
- Barriers to the discipline's promotion of research development include lack of faculty protected time, lack of mentorship, and lack of specific funding for family medicine research.
