Family Medicine Journal

Study of DISC has been limited among physicians and has anecdotally been described as useful within work environment communication, productivity, and teamwork. To facilitate productive conflict, it is essential to communicate effectively with each DISC personality type.

Mentorship is associated with career satisfaction and scholarly achievement in academic medicine. Faculty who are culturally or ethnically underrepresented in medicine have fewer opportunities for mentorship due to lack of understanding of their unique needs for career building.

In the March 2026 issue guest editorial, Dr Randall Longenecker reflects on the nature of physician competence, arguing that true competence integrates skills with character traits like integrity, adaptability, and resilience. Read the editorial: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Recent evidence has suggested that fewer family medicine clerkships are using community preceptors as their primary source of teaching. This study looks at trends in payment of community preceptors in the United States and Canada over the past decade: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Clinically significant adverse events affect clinicians at all levels and can include stress, guilt, and doubt about abilities. The medical student experience may be different and could impact professional identity formation: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Cognitive ethnography integrates cognitive theory and ethnography to examine physicians’ real-world problem solving. In family medicine, this approach informs workplace design and training by deepening understanding of diagnostic and management processes: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

The use of large language models and natural language processing (NLP) in medical education has expanded rapidly in recent years. BA bidirectional encoder representations from transformers model can detect sentiment in medical student course evaluations: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

By outlining how historical inquiry operates in practice, this paper gives researchers a starting point for bringing historical perspectives into their own studies and for opening lines of inquiry that fall outside the reach of contemporary data: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Psychological safety in graduate medical education influences key aspects of the clinical learning environment, including feedback and assessment. Here, the authors present a framework to evaluate workshop-based interventions: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

This article provides a theoretical model to connect the research question, hypothesis, survey questions, and analytic plan for CERA survey research studies. The authors outline the submission processes, common pitfalls, and more: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

As an evocative form of knowledge generation, visual methods allow researchers, participants, and audiences to consider problems in new ways. This article provides an overview of visual methods, with a focus on health professions and medical education: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Knowledge syntheses (ie, "reviews") help medical educators manage information overload by integrating evidence for informed decision-making. This article outlines synthesis types, key steps, reporting guidance, methodological pitfalls, and innovations: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Medical education is a fitting context for mixed methods research—explicitly integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches to leverage strengths and weaknesses. In this article, authors describe underlying principles and explain key considerations: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Family Medicine (@fammedjournal) seeks submissions for a theme issue on exploring the scope of practice in family medicine. More information: stfm.org/news/2025-news…

Qualitative research addresses why and how questions in health care through interviews, focus groups, observations, or archival data. This practical guide for clinicians gives a grand tour of the purpose of and approaches to qualitative study designs: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Quantitative research in medical education uses statistical methods to measure outcomes, evaluate programs, and test innovations. This article aims to help clinician-educators apply these methods with greater confidence: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Mixed-methods research (MMR) is beneficial in health professions education, where measurable outcomes and lived experiences are both essential to understanding learning and patient-care in real-world contexts.

Qualitative research is a way to produce knowledge about human experiences by exploring how participants engage with and interpret phenomena of interest. Here are four foundational concepts, five common qualitative methodologies, and a sample decision tree.

The February issue of Family Medicine is a theme issue on research methods! As guest editor LaKesha Anderson, PhD, notes in her editorial, “methods should not dictate the research question; rather, the research question should drive the method.” journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

The February issue of Family Medicine is a theme issue on research methods! The articles in this themed issue all focus on research methods and methodologies for medical education scholars. Here are links to all the digital articles in the issue: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…