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Record W4408657161 · doi:10.22454/primer.2025.600324

Protocol for the 2024 CERA Department Chair Survey

2025· article· en· W4408657161 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePRiMER · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSurvey Methodology and Nonresponse
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMentorshipPopulationProtocol (science)Family medicineMedicineSurvey researchMedical educationPsychologyAlternative medicineEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Introduction: CERA, the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance, is a program that provides an infrastructure for educational survey research. Members of the CAFM organizations can submit proposals to survey subgroups within academic family medicine. CERA's mission includes the production of rigorous medical education research as well as mentorship for newer researchers. The purpose of this article is to describe the methodology of the 2024 CERA Department Chair survey. Methods: The call for proposals for the survey was open from April 1-30, 2024. Ten proposals were received and five were accepted following a competitive peer-review process. The survey, which included questions from these five research teams as well as standard demographic questions, was approved by the American Academy of Family Physicians Institutional Review Baord. The sample was all chairs of departments of family medicine in the United States and Canada, as identified using member databases of CAFM organizations and responses to prior CERA surveys. The survey was then sent out via email using the Survey Monkey platform from August 13, 2024 through September 20, 2024. Results: The survey received 111 responses out of a population 218 potential participants, for a response rate of 50.92%. No significant differences were found for race/ethnicity, gender, age, or location between responders and the overall population. Conclusions: The 2024 CERA Department Chair Survey had an acceptable response rate, and no difference was found in demographic characteristics between responders and the overall population.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.188
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.380
GPT teacher head0.546
Teacher spread0.166 · 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