TY  - JOUR
DO  - 10.22454/PRiMER.2026.230153
VL  - 10
DA  - 2026/06/09
N2  - Introduction: The Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA) aims to promote family medicine research. Each year, the members of the four CAFM organizations submit audience-specific survey questions. This paper reviews the methods and demographics of the 2025 General Membership Survey and determine the representativeness of the survey respondents.
Methods: CERA opened its call for the annual General Membership Survey proposals in August 2025. Fourteen proposals underwent a peer-review process, with five selected for inclusion in the omnibus survey. CAFM members received invitations to complete the survey via SurveyMonkey between October 6, 2025 and November 14, 2025. Demographics of potential survey respondents were compared to demographics of the actual survey respondents using Fisher’s exact tests with an α of 0.05.
Results: Of the 3,834 CAFM members invited to participate, 884 responded, yielding a response rate of 23.1%. After removing missing data and “choose not to disclose” responses, fewer actual respondents self-identified as underrepresented in medicine compared to potential respondents (16.0% vs 19.4%, P<.001), and actual respondants more often had PhDs as their primary degree (11.5% vs 7.4%, P<0.001) compared to nonrespondents. Age and state/province of practice/program were not significantly different between respondents and nonrespondents. We did not perform statistical analysis on gender and race/ethnicity due to response options lacking mutual exclusivity. Gender showed similar distributions whereas race/ethnicity had a higher percentage of White respondents (75.7% vs 68.9%) and lower Black/African American respondents (4.9% vs 7.6%) between respondents and nonrespondents.
Conclusion: CERA explores topics vital to family medicine education, enabling stakeholders to develop informed policies important to family medicine education.
PB  - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
AU  - Zain, Areeba
AU  - Ringwald, Bryce A.
AU  - Moore, Miranda A.
L2  - http://journals.stfm.org/primer/2026/zain-2026-00021
L1  - http://journals.stfm.org/media/spxoigxx/primer-10-20.pdf
TI  - Protocol for the 2025 CERA General Membership Survey
ER  -