Parker J Magin PhD, FRACGP, is Senior Lecturer, Discipline of General Practice, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Marie Pirotta MBBS, FRACGP, PhD, is
Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and
Development Senior Research Fellow, General
Practice and Primary Health Care Academic
Centre, University of Melbourne and a general
practitioner, Victoria.
Emily Farrell BApHSc(IPHC), BMBS, FRACGP,
is immediate past chair and a board director,
General Practice Registrars Australia. She completed
an academic post as part of her training.
Mieke L van Driel MD, MSc, PhD, FRACGP is Head, Discipline of General Practice, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland
The Lancet in 1999 suggested that ‘neglect of research has made primary care one of the most intellectually underdeveloped disciplines in medicine’1 and later labelled general practice research ‘a lost cause’.2 According to the Medical Journal of Australia, this underdevelopment ‘stems from a lack of research culture, a heavy service commitment and the late arrival of academic GPs’.3
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