Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER)

Message from the Director

On behalf of our entire group of researchers, collaborators and affiliated students, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the McGill Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER) website.

The FMER came into being in May 2014, when a group of eight clinicians, educators and researchers in family medicine decided to pull together their experience and expertise to promote family medicine education research. The FMER was in fact the corollary of the educational innovations in teaching and research conceived and established at the McGill Department of Family Medicine since 2005. Family physicians and academic departments of family medicine are called to play a critical role in contemporary healthcare and medical education reforms. Being sensitive to the educational priorities of the different family medicine stakeholders, advocating for research plurality, and properly and timely translating the results of our investigations to all knowledge users, we aspire to significantly contribute to the advancement of the family medicine education research field of inquiry at the local, national and international levels.

The FMER has expanded over time, and currently includes 12 researchers, 12 collaborators and four MSc and PhD affiliated students. As Director of FMER, it is a privilege for me to work with an outstanding group of scholars and research trainees deeply committed to academic excellence, innovation, and community service. I kindly invite you to visit our website. It has been conceived not only to inform about our research projects, academic events, and scholarly achievements, but also (and importantly) as a privileged means for exchanging with all of those interested in family medicine education research around the world.

I hope you enjoy your e-visit. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Charo Rodríguez, MD, MSc, PhD

Marion Dove, Gillian Bartlett, Roland Grad, Leonora Lalla, Pierre Pluye, Miriam Boillat, Pierre-Paul Tellier, and Charo Rodriguez.

Inaugural members, 2014. Taken by: Heidi Hollinger

Axes of Research

The FMER goal is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge to support family medicine educational innovations and academic excellence in continuing professional development of practicing and academic family physicians and the training of students (clinicians, clinician-researchers, researchers). Based on the expertise developed, the FMER scientific program is structured in the following five axes of research:

1. Information technologies and artificial intelligence in family physicians’ continuing professional development;

2. Professional identity formation;

3. Mentorship in family medicine education;

4. Family medicine education program evaluation;

5. Scoping and systematic literature reviews.

What motivates FMER researchers, collaborators, and associated graduate students to work together is their common goal to contribute to the development of medical education research in family medicine, a field of inquiry still poorly developed. What is more, as Quebec researchers, we aim to place our province as international leader in this emerging domain. Such a position will allow to further progress and attract the best and brightest master’s, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows in the years to come.

Regular Members

Rear line of researchers: Gillian Bartlett, Roland Grad, Peter Nugus, Pierre Pluye, Miriam Boillat, Pierre-Paul Tellier.

Front line of researchers (all sat down): Marion Dove, Leonora Lalla, Tibor Schuster, Charo Rodriguez.

FMER members, 2017. Taken by: Heidi Hollinger

Students

Collaborators                   

Success Stories

FMER Advanced Research Seminars