Participating in Practice-based Research
MetroNet
In 2001, the Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences
started a practice-based research network in metropolitan Detroit
called "MetroNet". Practice-based research networks are
a consortium of primary care offices dedicated to answering questions
about health and disease that can be investigated best, or only
in ambulatory settings. The purpose is to answer the questions that
are important to primary care physicians and ultimately provide
better care for our patients.
Individual physicians within a practice or entire practices are
welcome to participate.
The level of individual physician participation will range from
recruiting patients to proposing study ideas to directing a study.
The WSU Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences is committed to developing
a network and has hired several research assistants and seasoned
research faculty to create a functional network.
Great Lakes Research Into Practice Network (GRIN)
The Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences is also
a founding member of the Great Lakes Research Into Practice Network
along with the Family Medicine departments at the University of
Michigan and Michigan State University. GRIN is a statewide primary
care research network that is intent on helping practitioners conduct
research that is reflective of the complexities of primary care
practice. The hope is to improve the integration of research outcomes
into primary care medicine. Some Metro-Net members may choose to
participate in GRIN studies, some may not. Participation in all
research studies is entirely voluntary.
Contact: Director of the Division of Practice-based Research:
Kendra Schwartz, MD, MSPH
(313) 577-0880
kensch@med.wayne.edu
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