Phillips William R
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Fam Med. 2018 Jan;50(1):41-46. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.952474.
New researchers often face difficulty finding and focusing research questions. I describe a new tool for research mentoring, the Pursuing Personal Passion (P3) interview, and a systematic approach to help learners organize their curiosity and develop researchable questions aligned with their personal and professional priorities. The learner-centered P3 research interview parallels the patient-centered clinical interview. This paper reviews experience with 27 research mentees over the years 2009 to 2016, using the P3 approach to identify their initial research topics, classify their underlying passions and track the evolution into their final research questions. These researchers usually identified one of three personal passions that provided lenses to focus their research: problem, person, or process. Initial research topics focused on: problem (24%, 6), person (48%, 12) and process (28%, 7). Final research questions evolved into: problem (20%, 5), person (32%, 8) and process (48%, 12). Identification of the underlying passion can lead researchers who start with one general topic to develop it into very different research questions. Using this P3 approach, mentors can help new researchers focus their interests into researchable questions, successful studies, and organized programs of scholarship.
新的研究人员在寻找并聚焦研究问题时常常面临困难。我介绍一种新的研究指导工具——追求个人热情（P3）访谈，以及一种系统的方法，以帮助学习者梳理他们的好奇心，并提出与个人和职业优先事项相符的可研究问题。以学习者为中心的P3研究访谈与以患者为中心的临床访谈类似。本文回顾了2009年至2016年期间对27名研究学员的指导经验，运用P3方法来确定他们最初的研究主题，归类其潜在热情，并追踪其最终研究问题的演变。这些研究人员通常确定了三种个人热情之一，这些热情为他们聚焦研究提供了视角：问题、人或过程。最初的研究主题集中在：问题（24%，6个）、人（48%，12个）和过程（28%，7个）。最终的研究问题演变为：问题（20%，5个）、人（32%，8个）和过程（48%，12个）。识别潜在热情可以引导从一个宽泛主题起步的研究人员将其发展为截然不同的研究问题。运用这种P3方法，导师可以帮助新研究人员将他们的兴趣聚焦为可研究的问题、成功的研究以及有组织的学术项目。
