TY - JOUR T1 - Reflections on a research study about refugees and asylum seekers JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 538 LP - 539 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X673766 VL - 63 IS - 615 AU - Lucy Ambrose AU - Robert K McKinley Y1 - 2013/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/615/538.abstract N2 - How many papers presented at conferences reach publication? How many small studies completed for higher degrees never reach peer reviewed literature? Do they have important messages we can use in our professional lives?I often reflect on these questions while commuting to and from work and considering how to disseminate the small-scale studies I am involved in as a medical educator.A senior professorial colleague brought these ruminations into sharp focus recently. The conversation went roughly as follows: ‘Did you present a paper at SAPC a long time ago about refugees?’ ‘Yes’, I replied, ‘A decade ago … it was my masters … I never got round to publishing it’. ‘Well ...’ he said, ‘it changed my practice’. And then went on to clearly identify the key points of my masters dissertation and how he currently used them in consultations.This stopped me in my tracks. I was stunned. I had done something that had influenced someone who I didn’t know at that time. He had listened to my 10-minute short oral presentation at the Society for Academic Primary Care and turned the results into actions within … ER -