Opportunities and barriers to enhance research capacity and outputs among academic family physicians in the Arab world.

Aim: To explore the current status of academic primary care research in Arab countries and investigate the barriers to its adequate implementation.

Background: Research is an essential building block that ensures the advancement of the discipline of Family Medicine (FM). FM research thus ought to be contributed to by all family physicians; nevertheless, its development is being hindered worldwide by several challenges.

Family physicians beliefs and attitudes regarding adult pneumococcal and influenza immunization in Lebanon.

Background: Influenza and pneumococcal diseases are responsible for more deaths than all other vaccine-preventable diseases combined. Despite all efforts, the vaccination rate is below target.

Objectives: To assess knowledge and beliefs of family physicians in Lebanon regarding influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, to identify adult immunization barriers, to assess physicians' use of evidence-based strategies to improve adult immunization and identify barriers to implementation of such strategies.