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The Dalhousie Family Medicine Halifax site offers a 3-year integrated Clinician Scholar Program (CSP) for a resident through CaRMS. The resident in this program will work under the supervision of a Halifax research faculty member. The resident’s area of research interest must align with the area of expertise of one of those faculty members.

Community faculty members are encouraged to partake in research projects and other scholarly activities. It is not uncommon for successful research programs to have their roots in community faculty members’ research questions that stem from their everyday work. In addition, community faculty members can join the Maritime Family Practice Research Network. Through research initiatives and other forms of scholarship, our family physicians are helping lead the way toward healthier families and communities throughout the Maritimes and Canada. 

Growing a net of knowledge, one practice at a time

Open to any practicing family physician/general practitioner in Nova Scotia and any health care professionals collaborating with family physicians –MaRNet was developed to foster research interests and expertise. The network enables community family physicians and academic family physicians to combine their skills and resources in conducting more effective family medicine and primary care research.

Opportunities for research and other scholarly activities are frequently available for undergraduate and Research in Medicine students, as well as graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Knowing how to discuss and use research knowledge is a critical component of resident education. In fact, some will choose to engage in research as part of their required resident projects. We’re proud to report that several of these have been presented at national and international conferences, earning national awards as well as inclusion in highly recognized peer-reviewed journals. 

The Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Health Care programme has been a tremendous success with well over 100 trainees having participated since its inception.  The objective, to build a critical mass of skilled, independent researchers and to increase the interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary focus in primary health care, has clearly been met. The trainees, many now independent researchers,  are influencing the way in which primary care research is being conducted.  The applicants for the tenth and final year of training have been selected and discussion is underway in how to sustain this program.