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Record W285892131

Research in family medicine and general practice: are we there yet?

2002· article· en· W285892131 on OpenAlexaff
Carol P. Herbert

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPrimary Care and Health Outcomes
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipSpecialtyMedicineWorryIsraelitesGeneral practiceMedical educationAlternative medicineEngineering ethicsPublic relationsFamily medicinePolitical scienceLawHistoryPathology
DOInot available

Abstract

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IKE the Israelites in the desert, for nearly 40 years wehave wandered, wringing our hands over the future ofgeneral practice as a discipline and attempting to find thePromised Land: a research agenda for general practice andfamily medicine. W e know that one of the defining charac-teristics of an academic discipline is that it has a distinctbody of knowledge that is advanced by scholarship and canbe taught to practitioners in the discipline. W e have strug-gled to define what scholarship should be in our specialty .How different we are from other disciplines! One does nothear the internists or the surgeons struggling over whatshould be their research agenda. There is a fundamentalexpectation that their researchers will ply their trade andtransfer the information to practitioners. Why are we so self -referential and unsure of ourselves that we worry aboutdefining a research agenda for general practice? Do weneed to justify that we are honest members of the academ-ic establishment?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.128
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.275
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.872
Threshold uncertainty score0.677

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1280.275
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.001
Bibliometrics0.0090.013
Science and technology studies0.0110.036
Scholarly communication0.0200.049
Open science0.0030.009
Research integrity0.0180.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.450
GPT teacher head0.529
Teacher spread0.078 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
DomainEvaluation
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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