The Journal of family practice
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This article summarizes the practice content and continuity for 35 senior residents in six family medicine residency model teaching units utilizing a computerized information management system. Comparisons are drawn with the content of family practices in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), showing that family medicine third-year residents provide a large proportion of pregnancy care and general medical examinations and treat a smaller number of chronic illness patients compared with family physicians in practice. ⋯ Continuity of care, though espoused by family medicine residencies in principle, was deficient in the model teaching units studied. Intensive training to compensate for these deficiencies is recommended.