General practice research in China needs to further explore the path for breaking through the bottleneck of the discipline development from the perspective of philosophy and methodology.

By comparing and analyzing qualitative research articles published in benchmark journals, strategies for further advocating qualitative research in general practice medicine in China are proposed.

Based on a brief analysis of the categories and topics research articles published in the British Journal of General Practice, the author reflects on the current relevant publications and challenges of qualitative research in medical discipline and proposes strategies to promote qualitative research in general practice.

Qualitative research in the British Journal of General Practice accounts for 38% (41/107) of research articles in 2024. The people-centred orientation of general practice encourages researchers to explore experiences, views, perceptions and opinions of patients, laypersons, doctors, nurses, and stakeholders, to plan and provide primary care that with humanity, responsiveness, and participatory. Social science methodologists and academic general practitioners who are interested in sociological research methods are the main driving force for the application of qualitative research in the field of general practice. The tradition of biomedicine philosophy with positivism is a disciplinary barrier that medical-trained need to overcome when conducting qualitative research. Academic general practitioners must understand the difference between ontology and epistemology, and acknowledge and try the interpretivist way of thinking. Different from qualitative data collection and coding techniques that are relatively easy to learn, during the training and learning process of qualitative research, special attention should be paid to breaking through the inertia of thinking and using interpretivism as another window to understand the world and primary care.

Qualitative research is an important area for the development of general practice disciplines. Better quality qualitative research first depends on the enrichment of philosophical thoughts and then use the tools and tactics to realize another understanding of the world.

中国的全科医学研究需要从哲学思想和方法学上进一步拓展突破学科发展瓶颈的路径。

通过与对标期刊的质性研究发表文章进行比较分析，提出进一步倡导我国全科医学质性研究的策略。

对《英国全科医学》杂志发表的研究文章类别、研究主题和研究对象进行简要分析，反思医学界开展质性研究的现状和挑战，提出促进全科医学质性研究的策略。

《英国全科医学》杂志的质性研究占研究类型文章的38%（41/107）。全科医学以人为本的宗旨，促使研究者探索患者、居民、医生、护士和相关者的体验、观点、感知、意见，从而筹划和提供具有人性化及响应性和参与性的基本医疗服务。社会科学的方法学专家和对社会学研究方法感兴趣的学术型全科医生，是质性研究在全科医学领域应用的主要推动力量。以实证主义为哲学思想的传统的生物医学模式，是医生开展质性研究时需要逾越的学科篱笆。学术型全科医生要理解本体论和认识论的不同，承认和尝试解释主义的思维方式。与相对容易掌握的质性资料收集技术和编码技术不同的是，在质性研究培训和学习过程中，要特别关注突破思维惰性，以解释主义作为了解世界和全科医学的另一个窗口。

质性研究是全科医学学科发展的重要方法，更好质量的质性研究首先取决于丰富的思想，以及为实现思想而操作的工具。