title: An advanced research seminar series for family medicine faculty members.
abstract: Due to the need to improve research skills and levels of research productivity among family physician faculty, the authors conducted a needs analysis, then designed, implemented, and evaluated a ten-week course entitled "An Advanced Research Seminar." The course goals were to enable faculty to draft a research proposal and outline a paper describing their study. Although the eight participants highly approved of course goals and level of difficulty, and showed significant cognitive gains in a self-report retrospective pre/post evaluation, few were able to achieve course goals. This paper discusses the discrepancy between self-reported ability and actual accomplishment, and the circumstances which can lead to inflated self-assessments. The importance of performance measures is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77005.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Holloway
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Bland
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Withington
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D008910:Minnesota; D012106:Research; D014495:Universities