关键词: 家庭医学, 全科医学, 社区参与研究, 卫生服务研究, 研究方法, 基层卫生保健

Abstract: Original research plays a key role in improving the quality of clinical practice，and help clinicians in gaining academic reputation. However，as a discipline，family medicine is still lacking a research approach which is rigorous，easy to use，and conducted by family doctors. The primary care setting and patient have different characteristics from the secondary care，and the types of its research are systematically different from the types of research in specialized hospitals. This article is the editorial of a series of methodological articles for family medicine and community health. It summarizes the difficulties and challenges of family medicine research，demonstrates the background，purpose，applicable population，overall structure and purpose of writing these methodological articles，and introduces the core content of each article. Through this way，it provides a guidance for general practice researchers and clinicians to read follow-up articles.

Key words: Family medicine, General practice, Community-based participatory research, Health services research, Research methods, Primary health care