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The purpose of the SPARTAN-FM Annual Network Survey is to collect data that furthers the research and scholarly interests of the residents and faculty of Network Member Programs. The survey will be administered and managed by the MSU Primary Care Research Collaborative (MSU-PCRC) and the survey content is determined by faculty and residents from the Family Medicine Residency Network (FMRN).
Description:
- Programs may submit up to 15 questions for consideration. To minimize the time required to complete the survey, questions must be limited to scaled (e.g., rating or Likert-scale), yes/no, multiple-choice, and short-answer formats.
- Question slots may be reallocated among programs based on participation, allowing programs that submit additional questions to use slots not needed by programs that submit fewer or no questions.
- The final length of the Annual Survey will depend on the number of questions submitted and accepted for inclusion as well as the number of participating programs, with the goal of limiting the survey to approximately 65 questions.
- The Survey includes demographic questions in addition to the maximum number of research questions. Demographic questions will include age range, program affiliation, role (resident/faculty/other staff), and gender. Please contact the PCRC Director if other demographic data is needed.
- The Annual Survey questions can be directed at faculty, residents and/or other program/clinic staff. Researchers will be able to identify the audience for their questions at submission.
Process:
- The MSU-PCRC distributes the Question Submission Form and Guidelines to all programs through the Program Director, Coordinator, and Program faculty research leads. It will be their responsibility to collect research questions and survey items from their faculty and residents.
- The MSU-PCRC collects all submitted items from each program and review to identify similar research questions or survey items.
- If questions on a similar research topic are submitted by multiple researchers/programs, the PCRC will work with those researchers to agree upon a set of questions that can be shared to eliminate repetitive questions.
- Submitted questions will be reviewed by members of the MSU-PCRC team and its Advisory bodies and selected based on available survey space, number of programs participating, quality of questions, potential impact, and relevance and significance to family medicine.
- If concerns about question structure or topic are identified by the PCRC, mentoring will be offered to the researcher with the question(s) involved to make improvements or changes recommended by the PCRC.
- Once approved by the PCRC, the survey is created online by the PCRC team and IRB approval is requested.
- When ready, the PCRC sends all programs (Directors, Coordinators, and Faculty research leads) the link to the online survey. It will be their responsibility to distribute to all program members.
- After close of the survey, the PCRC team prepares the data for each researcher. Data will be de-identified and will be sent as an Excel spreadsheet. A codebook will also be sent to each researcher.
- The PCRC maintains the list of questions, complete data set, and codebook for each Annual Survey. Network faculty and residents will be able to request this information from the PCRC in future years for purposes of secondary data analysis. All such requests must be approved by the PCRC and its Advisory bodies.
Requirements for Researchers:
- All publications and presentations resulting from data collected through the survey must acknowledge the MSU-Primary Care Research Collaborative (MSU-PCRC).
- All publications and presentations resulting from data collected through the survey must be shared with the MSU Primary Care Research Collaborative (MSU-PCRC).
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For more information or to ask questions, please contact Yasi Zamani-Hank, PCRC Director, at zamaniya@msu.edu.
