TY - JOUR T1 - RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2018: highlighting the challenge for primary care medical education research JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 564 LP - 565 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X706385 VL - 69 IS - 688 AU - Carolyn Chew-Graham Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/688/564.abstract N2 - The Research Paper of the Year (RPY), awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), recognises an individual researcher, or a group of researchers, who has published an exceptional piece of research relating to general practice or primary care.At the annual meeting of the Scientific Foundation Board of the RCGP in November 2018, we took the decision to change the categories of the RPY, which had mirrored the former National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Networks. Following discussion and debate, we agreed that the new categories would be: Clinical Research;Health Services Research (including Implementation and Public Health); andMedical Education with Relevance to Primary Care.The new category of Medical Education was felt to be important, and paralleled the inclusion of ‘Medical Education Research’ as a priority theme within the NIHR annual competitive bids for Clinical Academic Training (CAT) posts in England.We had a good response to our call for papers published in 2018, with 64 submissions, and I am indebted to the RCGP’s Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC) for their organisation of the judging process.The winners of the three categories are decided by sub-panels, and the overall winner arrived at during a teleconference of sub-panel leads. … ER -