Does family practice at residency teaching sites reflect community practice?
RIS ID
57245
Abstract
Family medicine has aspired to train residents and conduct research in settings that closely resemble community practice. The purposre of this study was to compare the patient characteristics of the ambulatory teaching centers of a consortium of seven community-based university-affiliated familyu practice residency programs in northeast Ohio with the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) results for family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners (GPs). Ninety-eight faculty and resident physicians at the residency training site of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine collected data on all ambulatory patient visits (N = 1498) for one randomly chosen week between July 1, 1991, and June 30, 1992. We compared these data with patient visits reported in the 1990 NAMCS for FPs and GPs.
Publication Details
Gilchrist, V., Gillanders, W. R., Iverson, D. C., Krell, M. A., Logue, E. E., Miller, R. S., Scheid, D. C., Oprandi, A. M. & Weldy, D. L. (1993). Does family practice at residency teaching sites reflect community practice?. The Journal of Family Practice, 37 (6), 555-563.