Thinking and Investigation of the General Practice Research Status at the General Hospitals in Beijing

Gao Xuxia; Ma Hanying; Ma Liping; Wang Yixin

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1001-568X.2024.03.0004

Abstract：OBJECTIVE To investigate the research status of General Practice at the general hospitals in Beijing and think about how to improve the current situation.METHODS Radom cluster sampling was used to survey general practitioners at the General Practice Departments of the general hospitals in Beijing,which were national standardized training bases for general practitioners.The surveyed questions for general practitioners included educational information,research fields,and directions,grant applications,articles publication,and difficulties they had meet during research.Research products were also analyzed by combining the survey with literature retrieval online.RESULTS A total of 71 general practitioners from 8 general hospitals in Beijing were surveyed and 93%of general practitioners had a medical master's or medical doctor's degree and had experienced training in medical research.48 general practitioners(67.5%)engaged in clinical or basic research in addition to clinical work.Only 26 general practitioners(36.6%)had obtained scientific research grants.59 general practitioners(83.1%)had published scientific research papers and 20 general practitioners(28.2%)had published their work in SCI journals.The fields general practitioners studied include the preven-tion,treatment,management,and prognosis of chronic diseases,as well as medical humanity.Difficulties for research fund obtain-ment and finding valuable research orientation.CONCLUSION Most General Practitioners at general hospitals in Beijing have accept-ed basic research training and will play potential roles in the development of the discipline research,which needs the perfect estab-lishment of the General Practice Medicine Research System and funds from local to national institutes or foundations.