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Tiffany Ho1, Bryce A Ringwald2, Paul Walker3
1Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
The 2025 CERA Department Chair Survey achieved a 45.7% response rate, with respondents representative of the potential population. This methodology can guide future multi-institutional educational research surveys for better participation and sample representation.
Area of Science:
- Academic Medicine
- Medical Education Research
- Family Medicine
Background:
- The Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA) facilitates multi-institutional educational research surveys in academic family medicine.
- This report details the methodology and outcomes of the 2025 CERA Department Chair Survey.
Purpose of the Study:
- To outline the methodology of the 2025 CERA Department Chair Survey.
- To compare demographics of actual versus potential survey respondents.
- To summarize previous CERA survey topics.
Main Methods:
- An omnibus survey was developed from accepted proposals and reviewed by former chairs.
- The sampling frame included all US and Canadian family medicine department chairs at LCME-accredited medical schools.
- Surveys were administered via SurveyMonkey from August 5 to September 15, 2025, with Fisher's exact tests for demographic comparisons.
Main Results:
- A 45.7% response rate was achieved from 97 out of 210 eligible department chairs.
- No statistically significant demographic differences were found between potential and actual respondents regarding race/ethnicity, gender, age, or geographic location.
Conclusions:
- The 2025 CERA Department Chair Survey successfully obtained an acceptable and representative sample.
- The described methods can inform future multi-institutional surveys aiming for high engagement and representative participant pools.
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