title: Fostering excellence: roles, responsibilities, and expectations of new family physician clinician investigators.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A key priority in primary health care research is determining how to ensure the advancement of new family physician clinician investigators (FP-CIs). However, there is little consensus on what expectations should be implemented for new investigators to ensure the successful and timely acquisition of independent salary support.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Support new FP-CIs to maximize early career research success.
  
  
  METHODS
  This program description aims to summarize the administrative and financial support provided by the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre in Ottawa, Ont, to early career FP-CIs; delineate career expectations; and describe the results in terms of research productivity on the part of new FP-CIs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family physician CI's achieved a high level of research productivity during their first 5 years, but most did not secure external salary support. It might be unrealistic to expect new FP-CIs to be self-financing by the end of 5 years. This is a career-development program, and supporting new career FP-CIs requires a long-term investment. This understanding is critical to fostering and strengthening sustainable primary care research programs.
authors: University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine, 85 Primrose Ave, Room 110, Ottawa, ON K1N 5C8. whogg@uottawa.ca.
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Hogg
authors: Claire
authors: C
authors: Kendall
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Muggah
authors: Liesha
authors: L
authors: Mayo-Bruinsma
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Ziebell
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005378:Financial Support; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D009864:Ontario; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011361:Professional Competence; D016730:Program Development; D012106:Research; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*