title: Residency research requirements and the CanMEDS-FM scholar role: perspectives of residents and recent graduates.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the perspectives of family medicine residents and recent family medicine graduates on the research requirements and other CanMEDS scholar competencies in family practice residency training.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semistructured focus groups and individual interviews.
  
  
  METHODS
  Family practice residency program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
  
  
  METHODS
  Convenience sample of 6 second-year family medicine residents and 6 family physicians who had graduated from the University of British Columbia family practice residency program within the previous 5 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two focus groups with residents and individual interviews with each of the 6 recently graduated physicians. All interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed for thematic content.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three themes emerged that captured key issues around research requirements in family practice training: 1) relating the scholar role to family practice, 2) realizing that scholarship is more than simply the creation or discovery of new knowledge, and 3) addressing barriers to integrating research into a clinical career.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Creation of new medical knowledge is just one aspect of the CanMEDS scholar role, and more attention should be paid to the other competencies, including teaching, enhancing professional activities through ongoing learning, critical appraisal of information, and learning how to better contribute to the dissemination, application, and translation of knowledge. Research is valued as important, but opinions still vary as to whether a formal research study should be required in residency. Completion of residency research projects is viewed as somewhat rewarding, but with an equivocal effect on future research intentions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Practice at University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bains
authors.forename: Marisa B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Shafik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dharamsi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000193:education*; D002170:Canada; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D036301:Qualitative Research