Family Medicine Research

Projects that arise from questions generated in community-based practice are essential to family medicine and to the development of health care strategies that lead to better outcomes for patients. Alberta has outstanding medical researchers and facilities that contribute to the discipline of family medicine by demonstrating the unique value family physicians bring to their patient communities and the health care system. Appropriate, meaningful collaboration among researchers in primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings, medical research institutes, and academic environments results in substantially improved patient outcomes, disease prevention strategies, and health service delivery methods.

The ACFP has a long-standing commitment to research that is well grounded in family medicine practice and supports the CFPC’s Section of Researchers’ (SOR) vision and mandate. We encourage family physicians to be part of a learning health care system where their data and input will be the power that fuels system transformation. We also believe that our members should be involved in the conception of research projects that are conducted both “in” and “on” their practice in a meaningful and powerful way.