A meeting with Board officials to find an adequate solution to this dilemma took place in Lexington in August 1999. No other set of data on family physicians provides such rich opportunities for analysis of the impact of family practice training over time. It is a prospective, rather than retrospective data base, in that every person in the category of family practice residency graduate in California is contained in it, whether or not they remain in the specialty, retire or die. The high school data provides information on where the graduate was raised. The data base is linked to socioeconomic information on the medical school and community of residency.
Socioeconomic data exist on the communities in which the graduates practice.
Both past and future questionnaires to the graduates can be used to supplement the general data. Us Copyright 1998-2000 Coastal Research Group. All rights reserved.