RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Research in Family Medicine by Family Physicians for the Practice of Family Medicine JF The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO J Am Board Fam Med FD American Board of Family Medicine SP 427 OP 429 DO 10.3122/jabfm.2016.04.160159 VO 29 IS 4 A1 Bowman, Marjorie A. A1 Neale, Anne Victoria A1 Seehusen, Dean A. YR 2016 UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/29/4/427.abstract AB This issue lays out challenges for family medicine researchers. Each article increases our understanding of solutions to common problems in family medicine, yet with each, one can readily see the next challenge based on the newly gained knowledge. One of the goals of the JABFM is to encourage research in family medicine for family medicine. Here we combine our usual editors' notes with thoughts about what the next research studies could, and hopefully will, be.