AN UPDATE ON FAMILY MEDICINE PARTICIPATION IN CLINICAL AND

Family medicine researchers play leading roles in many of the 38 institutions that have received Clinical Trans-lational Science Awards (CTSAs). We have described the purposes, successes, and strategies for engaging in institutional CTSA applications in past Annals columns in 2007 and 2008.1,2 We refer interested readers to those columns and the cited references for rich sources of background material. NIH plans to award 50 to 60 CTSAs and applications for the next round due in October 2009. Our purpose here is to provide an update on family medicine participation in CTSAs. We conducted a Web-based survey of the 145 Chairs of departments (which includes allopathic, osteopathic, and large regional medical center members of ADFM) in October 2008 and receive