Primary care departments and settings can often benefit from enhancing their research capacity. Family medicine organizations have created the Building Research Capacity (BRC) program to train individuals how to develop research capacity. Based on lessons taught during the BRC fellowship participants will learn strategies for enhancing research capacity in their primary care environments.
Jennifer Funderburk PhD, Clinical Research Psychologist, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
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