Issue 1: Editors’ Note

The TFMRJ is a quarterly open-access, nonprofit, peer-reviewed, online journal, registered as a 501(c)3 charitable organization created to publish and disseminate current family medicine research, case reports, perspectives, and work in the humanities among the family medicine community of Texas.The journal serves to complement existing publications and provide a helpful avenue for authors from any research and publication background.To accompany this first issue, we wanted to introduce the journal's background and provide a preview of the content to come.Our first issue broadcasts award-winning research from the 2024 Texas Academy of Family Physicians Research Competition, just in time to gear up for the upcoming 2025 iteration of the competition.These abstracts and posters represent but a fraction of the diverse research happening in Texas, which we hope to continue to feature in our future quarterly issues.