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Areeba Zain1, Bryce A Ringwald2, Miranda A Moore3
1Montgomery Family Medicine Residency Program, Baptist South Hospital, Montgomery, AL.
Primer (Leawood, Kan.)
|July 28, 2026
Summary
The Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA) 2025 survey had a 23.1% response rate. Underrepresented minorities and PhD holders were overrepresented among respondents, impacting family medicine research representativeness.
Area of Science:
- Family Medicine Research
- Medical Education Research
- Health Services Research
Background:
- The Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA) facilitates family medicine research.
- Annual surveys are conducted to gather insights from CAFM members.
- Assessing survey respondent representativeness is crucial for data validity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review the methods and demographics of the 2025 CERA General Membership Survey.
- To determine the representativeness of the survey respondents compared to the potential pool of CAFM members.
Main Methods:
- A call for survey proposals was issued in August 2025, with five selected after peer review.
- Invitations to complete the SurveyMonkey survey were sent between October 6 and November 14, 2025.
- Demographic data of potential and actual respondents were compared using Fisher's exact tests (α=0.05).
Main Results:
- The survey achieved a 23.1% response rate (884 out of 3,834 invited members).
- Respondents were less likely to identify as underrepresented in medicine (16.0% vs. 19.4%, P<.001) and more likely to hold a PhD (11.5% vs. 7.4%, P<.001) compared to nonrespondents.
- While age and practice location showed no significant differences, race/ethnicity distributions differed, with higher White and lower Black/African American representation among respondents.
Conclusions:
- The 2025 CERA survey respondent demographics differed from the potential member pool.
- These demographic variations may influence the generalizability of findings in family medicine education research.
- Understanding respondent representativeness is key for informing family medicine education policies.
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