Department of General Medicine, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2022 Sep;52(9):1505-1512. doi: 10.1111/imj.15866. Epub 2022 Aug 10.
In developing an effective framework for a collaborative research network (RN) that supports members involved in research, the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) required a better understanding of the current level of research activity and engagement by general physicians, and factors influencing such engagement.
To explore the current research landscape amongst general physicians in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
A questionnaire exploring research participation, scope, research enablers and barriers was disseminated to IMSANZ members over a 3-month period. Core functions of IMSANZ-RN, research priorities, potential solutions to perceived barriers and required level of support were also evaluated.
A total of 82 members, mostly senior medical staff (74.4%), responded to the survey (11.8% response rate). More than 70% were involved in impactful research across multiple disciplines, encompassing a wide range of research themes and topics. However, there is limited support and resources available to conduct research, with most projects being self-instigated and self-funded. There is overwhelming support to increasing the profile of research in general medicine through the establishment of IMSANZ-RN, whose principal purposes, as identified by respondents, are to foster collaboration, promote research, provide research education and training, and share information among general physicians. Quality improvement studies (56.1%) and clinical trials (41.5%) were also identified as priority research types.
This study has profiled the constraints faced by general physicians in conducting high-quality collaborative research and provides insights into what is needed to support greater research engagement, through development of a discipline-specific clinical RN.
为了开发一个支持参与研究的成员的协作研究网络 (RN) 的有效框架，澳大利亚和新西兰内科学会 (IMSANZ) 需要更好地了解普通内科医生当前的研究活动水平和参与度，以及影响这种参与的因素。
探索澳大利亚和新西兰的普通内科医生的当前研究状况。
在三个月的时间内向 IMSANZ 成员分发了一份调查问卷，调查研究参与情况、范围、研究促进因素和障碍。还评估了 IMSANZ-RN 的核心功能、研究重点、解决感知障碍的潜在方案和所需的支持水平。
共有 82 名成员（主要是高级医务人员，占 74.4%）对调查做出了回应（响应率为 11.8%）。超过 70%的人参与了多个学科的有影响力的研究，涵盖了广泛的研究主题和课题。然而，开展研究的支持和资源有限，大多数项目都是自主发起和自筹资金的。通过建立 IMSANZ-RN 来提高普通内科医生的研究水平得到了压倒性的支持，受访者认为其主要目的是促进合作、推动研究、提供研究教育和培训，并在普通内科医生之间共享信息。质量改进研究（56.1%）和临床试验（41.5%）也被确定为优先研究类型。
这项研究描绘了普通内科医生在开展高质量合作研究时面临的限制，并为通过开发特定于学科的临床 RN 来支持更多的研究参与提供了见解。
