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Record W4408561652 · doi:10.46747/cfp.7103192

How early-career family physicians integrate social accountability into practice

2025· article· en· W4408561652 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Lauren J. Mills, Amanda Gormley, A. Brianna Sheppard, Catherine Moravac, Ian Scott, M. Ruth Lavergne

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Family Physician · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPrimary Care and Health Outcomes
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAccountabilityMedical educationData scienceMedicineComputer sciencePolitical science

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To explore how early-career family physicians integrated social accountability into their practices, how it shaped their practice choices, and the challenges they encountered. DESIGN: A secondary analysis of qualitative interview data. SETTING: British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. PARTICIPANTS: Early-career family physicians. METHODS: Initially a deductive analysis was conducted using a framework for categorizing 3 different levels of social accountability (individual patient [micro], community [meso], and system [macro]). An inductive analysis was then undertaken to explore how social accountability informs practice choice and to understand challenges encountered. A reflexive thematic analysis guided the inductive process. MAIN FINDINGS: Social accountability was most commonly discussed at individual and community levels, with more limited system-level examples. Many early-career family physicians valued providing holistic care and derived professional satisfaction from meeting patient and community needs. These values, which are consistent with social accountability, informed their choice to pursue medicine and family medicine specifically. Available practice and payment models were described as barriers to socially accountable practice. Participants believed they lacked the knowledge, skills, and power to influence policy. CONCLUSION: There is a need to support practice environments that are conducive to socially accountable practice and for curricula that can provide physicians with tools to engage with community- and system-level policy issues.

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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)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.045
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.294
Threshold uncertainty score0.585

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.045
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.010
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.050
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.328 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2025
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