Primary Care Research Methods and Statistics Conference

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Economic constraints have limited the number of fellowship programs that train primary care researchers. This presents a gap in necessary mentoring and ongoing training of both fellowship- and non-fellowship-trained researchers. To address this need, this grant supported the Primary Care Research and Methods and Statistics Conferences. For novice researchers, the conferences develop basic research skills, such as planning and conducting simple studies and communicating results. For experienced researchers, the conferences increase understanding of research techniques and statistical approaches to conducting high-quality, sophisticated primary-care studies.

Primary Care Research and Methods and Statistics Conferences were held December 5-7, 2008; March 19-22, 2009; January 22-24, 2010; and December 2-4, 2011. The conferences included a pre-conference workshop for experienced researchers, plenary sessions, a dissection of innovative studies, a methodological think-tank process workshop, and two theme-based seminar tracks. Conference attendees were asked to evaluate each speaker and the conference itself. The 2011 conference, “Research with Vulnerable Populations,” was multidisciplinary and attracted a variety of researcher areas, including health services, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Presentations included “Conducting Research on Homeless Populations” and “A Practical Approach to Missing Data in Scale Construction and Analysis.”