There are many examples of CBPR projects in the literature, but very few have been done by primary care clinicians.6, 13 Macaulay, however, calls for family practice physicians who do primary care research to use CBPR.13 “The training and skills of family physicians…make them especially suited to participatory research.” The need for this is most acute in communities of “poor, vulnerable, and minority populations.” Some of the specific skills family practitioners have which make them suited for conducting CBPR include established relationships, patient-centered skills, experience with uncertainty, pragmatism, and expertise with knowledge translation.
