NAPCRG nurtures primary care research and researchers
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* William R Phillips

*   Community-Based Participatory Research
*   Family Medicine
*   General Practice
*   Patient Participation
*   Physicians, Family

Thank you to olde Hartman *et al*1 for sharing with us the power of NAPCRG—the North American Primary Care Research Group—to help advance patient and population health through primary care research. Their international and intergenerational team outlines the importance of NAPCRG in empowering our quest to advance general practice and family medicine knowledge and practice. The supportive NAPCRG community includes practising clinicians, learners, patients and community representatives. Together, we can advance generalist science while we are all at work taking care of the folks in our communities and teaching the whole patient healers of tomorrow. The N in NAPCRG—first and foremost—has always stood for nurturing.2

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*   Contributors WRP is solely responsible for this work.

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*   Competing interests None declared.

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## References

1.  olde Hartman T, Blane DN, Sturgiss E, et al. International reflections on NAPCRG: celebrating 50 years of learning and connecting. Fam Med Community Health 2022;10:e001880.[doi:10.1136/fmch-2022-001880](http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2022-001880)
    
    

2.  1.  Goodyear-Smith F, 
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    Phillips WR. North American Primary Care Research Group, Chapter 18, in International Perspectives on Primary Care Research. In: Goodyear-Smith F, Mash B, eds. World organization of family doctors (WONCA). London: CRC Press, 2016: pages 135–6. ISBN: 13: 978-1-4987-6752-1.