A better system for tracking medical students, clerks, residents, practicing physicians, and medical market conditions would simplify determining the effect of the Clerkship Program and other medical education programs.
Opportunities exist to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit process.
All medical schools are in compliance with all statutory provisions on the levels and uses of funds, clerkship curricula, and required examinations. The Legislature might consider continuing the Clerkship Program as a separately appropriated strategy, expanding incentives to attract Family Practitioners to rural and underserved areas, using Clerkship Program funds used to improve interfaces between clerkship sites and medical schools, exploring how managed care entities might contribute to the clerkship, and routinely assessing the reasonableness of the goal that 25 percent of all residencies be filled in Family Practice. With a few minor exceptions, the medical schools generally agree with the recommendations in the report. Contact the SAO about this report. Download the acrobat version of this report.