Focus on medical education research in primary care: an undergraduate medical education faculty’s journey

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a viewpoint on medical education research in primary care from undergraduate medical educators, discussing the issues and questions shared with other institutions, the role of medical education research in raising the profile of academic general practice, the challenges and opportunities faced and how education-based research can form an evidence-based approach to teaching.

KEYWORDS:

• Primary care
• medical education
• undergraduate

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Helen Collingwood for her assistance with preparing this article. Elizabeth Lamb is funded by a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) In Practice Fellowship.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.