In 2000, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing established the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation

to increase research capacity in primary care. To achieve this increase, there is a need to determine primary health care practitioners ’ research training needs and develop a research culture. In the United Kingdom, the focus has been on the value of multidisciplinary research collaboration, the need for research relevant to primary care,2–5 the need to set research priorities,6 the value of research in promoting the use of evi-dence based medicine,7–10 the need for dissemination strategies,11–13 and frame-works for research in primary care.8,14 Although research networks have bee