title: A profile of family medicine scholarship 1978-1995: an analysis of national presentations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Presentations at the annual meetings of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine were analyzed to determine trends in the content of the work and the types of work represented.
  
  
  METHODS
  All program presentations from 1979, 1986, and 1993-1995 were analyzed. Content classifications were based on historic analyses of family medicine literature. Classifications of types of scholarship came from a 1990 Carnegie Foundation report, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that a wide variety of scholarly activities were presented, but application of educational work was predominant. Many presentations crossed interdisciplinary boundaries, including behavioral science, faculty development, and health services.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Contributions of family medicine scholarship may be applicable to other medical fields. The variety of family medicine scholarship may warrant a redefinition of reward systems for faculty.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. holloway@post.its.mcw.edu
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Holloway
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Meurer
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education*; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States