Family medicine
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Since July 2002, family practice residency program accreditation requires evidence of teaching and assessing residents in six competency areas. This study was conducted to obtain baseline information about family practice graduates' perceptions of the importance of specific competencies and the extent to which residency training prepared them to perform skills representative of the six competency areas. ⋯ Areas of residency education that appear to warrant improvement include education about system aspects of care, practice-based learning and improvement, and selected professionalism issues.